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dbt integration with Airflow
As Drop continues to grow, it becomes increasingly difficult to deal with enormous amounts of data. Transforming, removing duplicates…
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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Drop’s Data Lake
Drop Engineering’s journey to building a scalable, and server-less data lake.
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…
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 …
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