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Our Journey: Exploring the Magic of Views in Rails Applications

The ProblemIn most Rails applications, we use an ActiveRecord Model backed by a Database Table whenever we need to query data. While this is sufficient for most scenarios, a few […]

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Our Journey: Exploring the Magic of Views in Rails Applications

The ProblemIn most Rails applications, we use an ActiveRecord Model backed by a Database Table whenever we need to query data. While this is sufficient for most scenarios, a few […]

AWS vs. Traditional Server Administration: What you need to know

My name is Nathan, and during my summer internship at Snapsheet, I had the opportunity to learn and work with AWS tools in the IT team.For developers, server administration is […]

An Insiders Perspective & Experience on Internships

If you’re like most people, the word “internship” probably makes you think of coffee runs and getting stuck with the tedious work. But at Snapsheet, internships are everything but that! […]

Internship Project: Integrating GitHub’s Dependabot with Slack

Dependabot Slack Integration This past Summer I interned with the SRE team at Snapsheet. On one of the first projects I worked on, I noticed we were using Dependabot, a […]

Why We Made The Switch From Sketch to Figma

In the spring of 2021, I made my case for our company to switch from Sketch to Figma. Previous designers had worked in Sketch for several years and had a […]

Five Biggest Takeaways After Switching from Angular to React

Author: Anva Kondakciu For someone deciding whether to learn Angular or React first, most articles and videos will point to React due to its popularity, performance, and simple API. My […]

Creating a Hackathon Project in 5 steps: A Guide for Success!

Authors: Kazuhiro Uchikata, Deena Tenzer and David Tittle The Hackathon Scope Hackathons are an essential part of Snapsheet’s tech culture. In this post, we’re going to give you a play-by-play […]

Building a Web Scraper with Beautiful Soup

Created by Carrie Utter With the widespread information that can be found on the internet, manually searching for data can be tedious and time-consuming. Automation through web scraping is a […]

Keeping your schema.rb file clean and consistent between environments

by Santiago Herrera What issues does an inconsistent schema.rb file cause? Having an inconsistent schema.rb file that doesn’t really reflect the structure in production, and changes every time people run […]

Query Tuning (PostgreSQL)

It is no secret that most, if not all, modern software products critically rely on data to provide value for users. One of the most commonly used tools for interacting […]

Hackathon 101

Here at Snapsheet, we prioritize innovation and new ways of problem solving. Indeed, those are common buzzwords in the tech industry, but how do we encourage that behavior in a […]

Changing DB Encoding to Support Emojis in a Production Rails Environment

The Problem If you’ve created a Rails application that uses MySQL 5.6 or earlier, you may have run into this problem: Way back when you first created your application’s initial […]

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