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Migrating site from Rails to Next.js App - How to add TypeScript, ESLint, CSS Modules, and IE11 detection

by Kirsten Swanson

The day has come that we want to isolate our marketing site away from our Rails app. We knew that we wanted to use a React framework and it came...
Building a Webhook Service

by Alex Bowden

As Brandfolder has grown dramatically in size, so has the usage of the Brandfolder API. This is a natural consequence of a product growing at an exponential rate, especially one...
React Drag 'n Drop Horizontal Placement Indicator

by Kirsten Swanson

While building Brandfolder's Portals, which is like a customizable homepage for all your assets, I implemented React DnD in order to allow users to update the ordering of their assets....
BigQuery + Python for Production Data Science

by Emma Tebbe

Originally posted on Medium For the past year and a half, we at Brandfolder have been moving toward using BigQuery as a datalake. It began by storing a copy of...
Addressing Scale with Functional Services

by Brett Nekolny, Stew Blanford, Steve Pentler

Addressing Scale with Functional Services Brandfolder, Inc. is a growth stage Software as a Service company headquartered in Denver, Colorado. Brandfolder provides a digital asset management solution, helping businesses store,...
Performance Hazards of Misusing React's useContext

by Anders Wood and Emmi Russo

Overview This post shares how we addressed a frontend performance issue users experienced with Brandfolder’s asset modal. Performance issues like this can be a huge pain to diagnose and fix....
How CDN embedding has changed the way we build our website

by Kirsten Swanson

I've been with Brandfolder for almost two and a half years and I've seen tremendous change within the company itself and of course the advancements within our product. It's been...
Front-End Developer and Designer Pairing

by Kirsten Swanson

Are you a designer constantly telling your front-end developer to add padding or pixels and are baffled as to why the design doesn't match the comp? 🤔 Or are you...
Creating & Using Functions in React: ES5 vs ES6

by Anders Wood

When creating, referencing, calling and passing functions within and between React components, you have myriad options and combinations of options at your fingertips, it can be overwhelming! For the most...
CSS Grid Layout with Flexbox Fallback

by Kirsten Swanson

Are you seeking to build a responsive grid without calculating breakpoints and having to write multiple lines of code? Well you’ve found the right blog! This is a tutorial on...
Embracing the chaos, enjoy the newest and shiniest developer toys

by Brett Nekolny

To preface, I think it would help to provide context on where I work and a bit about the team. I am the Director of Engineering at Brandfolder, where we...
The "Rollup" Pattern

by Steve Pentler

An experiment to remove expensive joins, inheritances, and methods from primary API endpoints. Scaling quickly at a company yields an accelerated education in database management. I’m going to tell you...
Brandfolder’s Machine Learning Platform

by Ajaykumar Rajasekharan

Introduction Enabling a data driven creative experience for our (Brandfolder’s) customers involved augmenting an extremely good product by building a machine learning platform to seamlessly deliver the data suite of...

The Lost Art of Apache Benchmarking

by Steve Pentler

I appreciate quick references and that’s where we are going to start.

 ab -n 100 -c 10 -H "Authorization: API_KEY" https://www.linkedin.com/in/steve-pentler-8800aa60/ ab = apache benchmark n = requests (count)...


        
            
            
            Touchscreen Detection: One Class, Many Styles
            by Anders Wood 
            At Brandfolder, we inject mobile design into our product by employing responsive, Progressive Web App{:target="blank"} methodologies. Recently I was coding a menu that needed to look different for mobile vs...



    
  
    
      
        
      
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Engineers

The Brandfolder Engineering Blog

Migrating site from Rails to Next.js App - How to add TypeScript, ESLint, CSS Modules, and IE11 detection

Building a Webhook Service

React Drag 'n Drop Horizontal Placement Indicator

BigQuery + Python for Production Data Science

Addressing Scale with Functional Services

Performance Hazards of Misusing React's useContext

How CDN embedding has changed the way we build our website

Front-End Developer and Designer Pairing

Creating & Using Functions in React: ES5 vs ES6

CSS Grid Layout with Flexbox Fallback

Embracing the chaos, enjoy the newest and shiniest developer toys

The "Rollup" Pattern

Brandfolder’s Machine Learning Platform

The Lost Art of Apache Benchmarking

Touchscreen Detection: One Class, Many Styles