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Editors
Derek Li

Engineer at Flexport, scuba diver, learning random things.

Vivek Kishore

Supply chain and global logistics professional with expertise in SaaS implementation, product and program management. www.LinkedIn.com/in/vivekkishore

Levi Meahan

Software Engineer @flexport | Game Developer. I like programmimg, video games, anime, cool tech, and deep introspective thoughts. Opinions are my own. He/him

Latest Posts

Using GitHub’s Scientist library to refactor with confidence

For the last decade, Flexport has been powered mostly by a Ruby on Rails monolith. In that time, we’ve written millions of lines of Ruby…

What The Interns Shipped

Flexport Engineering has hosted interns for several years now and summer 2022 was no different. (Several previous interns, myself included…

Live GPS Tracking in Partnership with Convoy

Flexport and Convoy formed a partnership in 2021 to provide end-to-end digitization for our mutual clients, giving them visibility from…

Supply Ecosystem Integrations that are Powering Flexport Platform to Make Global Trade Easy

Since their introduction in 1956, containers have been the backbone of global trade. Over 65 million shipping containers are in…

Less Is More: A PostgreSQL Query Optimized from Minutes to Milliseconds

Using more indexes does not always improve database performance. The “Less Is More” principle works in the database performance area.

Building a tech hub outside Silicon Valley

Growing Flexport’s Chicago tech office from 5 to 50

How the Flexport Ecosystem team is helping automate global trade

At 7:40 AM on Tuesday, March 23, a 400-meter-long container ship named Ever Given ran aground in the Suez Canal. It took six days and…

Writing Parallelizable Integration Tests with Spring Boot, JPA, and Bazel

Integration tests are invaluable for verifying that components interact with each other appropriately in critical scenarios. At Flexport…

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