Editor's Note: This post was originally featured on Medium, but…
Editor’s Note: This post was originally featured on Medium, but has been reposted here with the author’s permission For new hires, the first day, week,…
Editor's Note: This post was originally featured on Medium, but…
Editor’s Note: This post was originally featured on Medium, but has been reposted here with the author’s permission For new hires, the first day, week,…
Editor's Note: For the past four months, Pixlee has had…
Editor’s Note: For the past four months, Pixlee has had the pleasure of welcoming Bruce and Brianna, two co-op students from the University of Waterloo….
Editor's Note: This is a guest post from Joanna Lou,…
Editor’s Note: This is a guest post from Joanna Lou, a software engineering intern who joined Pixlee as a part of Waterloo University’s co-op program….
The blurred background in portrait mode, improved battery saving capabilities,…
The blurred background in portrait mode, improved battery saving capabilities, and voice recognition software — these are all functions that have been woven into the…
Facebook announced this morning they experienced a security issue affecting 50…
Facebook announced this morning they experienced a security issue affecting 50 million accounts. Please be reassured this breach has not affected Pixlee in any way as…
Emails are a tried-and-true way for e-Commerce brands to engage…
Emails are a tried-and-true way for e-Commerce brands to engage with their customers across the customer journey. However, many marketing emails can feel impersonal, poorly…
Load speed has long been a metric of focus for…
Load speed has long been a metric of focus for website developers and marketers alike, and this is particularly true in the e-commerce space. Shoppers’…
Elasticsearch is a great tool for us, and I’ve talked…
Elasticsearch is a great tool for us, and I’ve talked a bit about setting up a cluster here. It’s particularly good at full text search….
At Pixlee, we're big fans of proven, scalable technology. Serving…
At Pixlee, we’re big fans of proven, scalable technology. Serving millions of photos a day at millisecond speed requires an amalgamation of superb caching, scalable…
Why Elasticsearch? Elasticsearch is a distributed, multitenant-capable full-text search…
Why Elasticsearch? Elasticsearch is a distributed, multitenant-capable full-text search engine that we recently used to optimize our analytics. A number of queries that are…
(1) Many vendors injects native JavaScript widgets to deploy their…
(1) Many vendors injects native JavaScript widgets to deploy their experiences or services on client websites. (2) Pixlee publishes through encapsulated code via iFrames. iFrame…
When we first started Pixlee, things were pretty simple. We had…
When we first started Pixlee, things were pretty simple. We had a single monolithic Rails application that powered everything from the web application to background workers…
Introduction Heroku’s postgres service is quickly emerging as a scalable, worry-free DaaS…
Introduction Heroku’s postgres service is quickly emerging as a scalable, worry-free DaaS for tech companies of any size, and its synergy with Heroku is a very strong…