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2026 1

  1. View our job openings

2023 1

  1. Transitive Closure in PostgreSQL

2022 2

  1. Reducing scaling costs with Betterscaling
  2. Inclusive Language Updates

2021 1

  1. A Letter to My Team

2020 2

  1. Remind's security stance in action
  2. How we reached 99.9% uptime during our busiest season

2019 2

  1. Hypothesis Testing in Production
  2. Remind iOS: Present All the Things!

2018 5

  1. How I gained commit access to Homebrew in 30 minutes
  2. Building Infrastructure in Parallel
  3. A Probabilistic Approach to Counting Message Deliveries 2/14/18 Message summaries help teachers, students and parents to communicate better
  4. Improving Redshift performance with Intermix 2/12/18 Here at Remind, Amazon Redshift is a centerpiece of our data infrastructure. Event data is continuously ingested into Redshift. ETL...
  5. Migrate the Empire to C5 1/29/18 Migrate the Empire to C5 — or why it took me a month to move from C4 to C5 AWS...

2017 14

  1. Share On Remind 11/16/17 At Remind, a core component of our product development process involves obsessing about data and investigating user behavior—especially the patterns...
  2. Operations Infrastructure Month in Review #4 11/7/17 What’s this about?
  3. Operations Infrastructure Month in Review #3 9/30/17 What’s this about?
  4. Why Qualitative Research Matters for Engineers 9/19/17 This article has to do with understanding user research from an engineering perspective. Whether you’re curious about the different types...
  5. Docker image digests 9/18/17 When you download something from the internet, a common method for determining both integrity and authenticity of an object is...
  6. Debugging IAM permissions with CloudTrail 9/13/17 An automated AWS service failing due to a missing IAM permission can have surprising causes. Examining the CloudTrail log the...
  7. Operations Infrastructure Month in Review #2 8/30/17 What’s this about?
  8. Writing a Tabbed Container View Controller 8/7/17 One of the things I’ve focused on this year is improving the navigation within our app. Making the class menu...
  9. Building a Declarative Permissioning Service 8/2/17 Motivation
  10. Operations Infrastructure Month in Review #1 7/30/17 What’s this about?
  11. Keeping AWS secrets secret with ECS 5/22/17 One of the most important aspects of our security strategy in the Operations Engineering Team is to mitigate the risk...
  12. Beyond a Redshift-centric data model 5/15/17 Remind’s data engineering team strives to provide the whole company with access to the data they need and empower them...
  13. GraphQL Initiative at Remind 4/27/17 When Remind first started, it was a simple app that allowed teachers to send announcements to their students. Like many...
  14. Introducing Stacker 3/1/17 Stacker is Remind’s solution to deploying cloud infrastructure at scale. It allows you to quickly build, update, validate and deploy...

2016 2

  1. Remind iOS: MVVM for Dummies 9/5/16 Today we’re going to go over a design pattern that I struggled to understand initially and try to simplify it...
  2. Remind iOS: Realm Status Update 4/21/16 So Close!

2015 9

  1. Android Code That Scales, With MVP 12/2/15 It’s always easy to write a Hello World application, the code looks simple and straight forward and the SDK feels...
  2. Remind iOS: Our Path to Realm 11/19/15 It’s Hack Week at Remind! This week, everybody at the company gets to work on anything tangentially related to our...
  3. Remind iOS: Should you use Interface Builder? 10/8/15 Currently we use Interface Builder for a lot of iOS UI development at Remind and we are now thinking about...
  4. Our log streaming solution based on Amazon Kinesis 10/6/15 Today, we are open sourcing our log streaming solution for Empire.
  5. Introducing Conveyor: A fast build system for Docker images 9/30/15 Today, we’re open sourcing Conveyor, a fast build system for Docker images.
  6. Remind iOS by Example: RestKit and You 7/30/15 One of those most common and important things mobile applications do today is communicate with an API. In this blog...
  7. Customer support makes me a better engineer 6/16/15 On my first day at Remind, I was setting up my development environment when I received a meeting request from...
  8. Hire great software engineering interns 6/16/15 My experience as a co-op student from the University of Waterloo
  9. Introducing Empire: A self-hosted PaaS built on Docker & Amazon ECS 6/16/15 Today, Remind is open sourcing our self-hosted PaaS called Empire. Empire provides a 12 factor-compatible, Docker-based container cluster built on...