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dbt integration with Airflow
dbt integration with Airflow
As Drop continues to grow, it becomes increasingly difficult to deal with enormous amounts of data. Transforming, removing duplicates…
Dilmeet Malhi
Dec 22, 2022
Running a Migration Making 800k API Calls Without Crashing Prod
Running a Migration Making 800k API Calls Without Crashing Prod
Executing long-running scripts in production can be a time-consuming, inelegant task. This is the story of how we changed that at Drop.
George Shao
Jun 29, 2022
How we built an event-driven architecture at Drop
How we built an event-driven architecture at Drop
“Do things that don’t scale” is a common adage heard at early-stage startups, and building software is no exception to this rule. As a…
Eric M Payne
Jun 22, 2021
Demystifying React Native’s Animated API: Part 2
Demystifying React Native’s Animated API: Part 2
Please note that this is a follow up to part one of this series, and we will be building on top of previously discussed concepts such as…
Simon Steer
Feb 8, 2021
Demystifying React Native’s Animated API: Part 1
Demystifying React Native’s Animated API: Part 1
At Drop, we use React Native and TypeScript to develop our mobile app. Being able to write platform-agnostic code in a widely-adopted…
Simon Steer
Sep 30, 2020
My Drop Eng Internship
My Drop Eng Internship
Hey everyone, my name is David, and I’m a 4th year Software Engineering student from the University of Waterloo. I’m writing this post as…
David Kang
Jul 23, 2020
Designing a Startup’s Research Experience during a Pandemic
Designing a Startup’s Research Experience during a Pandemic
The UX Research team at Drop is exploring shorter, more engaging formats for communicating user insights, while seeking out new ways to…
Alya Naumova
May 28, 2020
Drop’s Data Lake
Drop’s Data Lake
Drop Engineering’s journey to building a scalable, and server-less data lake.
Michael Chau
Mar 9, 2020
Leveling Up Transactions @ Drop — INT to BIG INT!
Leveling Up Transactions @ Drop — INT to BIG INT!
Transaction data is core to Drop’s ability to reward our members and personalize their shopping experience. Using machine learning models…
Harsh Shah
Oct 4, 2019
Building a Recommender System Using Embeddings
Building a Recommender System Using Embeddings
At the core of the Drop ecosystem are two key entities: our members and our partner brands. Our focus at Drop is to provide both with …
Grace Tenorio
Jul 31, 2019
3 Decisions We’ve Made While Growing Drop’s Tech
3 Decisions We’ve Made While Growing Drop’s Tech
Building a product from the ground up is no easy task, as many startup founders will tell you. There is also a noticeable lack of insight…
Darren Fung
Jun 15, 2019
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