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Artisan Welding Class for Engineers (ALL SLOTS TAKEN)
We sponsor maker classes for talented engineers in Boston. Any software engineer: back end, front end, search, devOps, QA, etc.–even those who are not member of our team. No strings attached. Just go...
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From Our Engineers: CustomMade and $18 Million
Re-blogged from PK’s personal blog. Originally published 11 June 2013. What can CustomMade do with it’s new round of financing, 18 million dollars? a lot. I am lucky enough to experience the inside...
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Piggybacking on backbone.js for performant mobile web
CustomMade is a pretty data- and interaction-rich site. Not only do we serve up pages with lots of dynamic content; we also have many interfaces that manage highly interactive experiences (e.g.,...
View Article(VIDEOS) Boston Python – June Presentation Night
CustomMade was provide to video tape and live-stream #BostonPython’s June Presentation Night. We have reposted links to the videos, organization by presentation for your convenience. This event was of...
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Introducing DisRedis: an open source client to automate sharding & failover
Note from Jim: At CustomMade we are big fans of open source. Today, we are releasing our first open source repo for use by others. Feedback, forking and contributions are welcome. The reason we...
View Article(VIDEOS) Boston Python – July Lighting Talks
CustomMade was proud to sponsor (live-stream, and present at) #BostonPython’s July Presentation Night. Below are links to videos captured and shared by our live-streaming team: SimpleFlake by Mali...
View ArticleSimpleflake: Distributed ID generation for the lazy
Simpleflake does exactly what it’s called: provide a very simple way to generate unique IDs across distributed shards (or even multiple systems). It’s simplicity is great for us: a startup engineering...
View ArticleInnovation Friday: Recommendation Engine Competition using ElasticSearch
We're holding a competition to see who can create the best recommendation engine using Elastic Search. We'll provide the data, pizza and beer--you bring the ideas.The post Innovation Friday:...
View ArticleHubot, Hipchat and Fabric
CustomMade needed a way to simplify deployments and let non-engineers deploy to our staging environments. After hearing lots of great things about chatops from Github, and Brendan, one of our tech...
View ArticleSigning up for health insurance via Healthcare.gov
I have been an Obama fan for years, and generally have given him the benefit of the doubt on a lot of hard decisions he has made during his tenure as president… Recently, however, I have been surprised...
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