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Supporting Open Source: Our Donations for 2018
At Kickstarter, we use a lot of open-source software. We pledge in our PBC charter to support a more creative and equitable world, and…
Natacha Springer
Jan 11, 2019
Fabric for Open Source Android
So you’re thinking of working on an Android application that will be open source or you join a codebase that’s open source. There are many…
Rashad Cureton
Aug 16, 2018
A Guide to Mindful Communication in Code Reviews
Code reviews are a core part of being a software engineer. Most of us review code every day. Technical skills are needed to review code…
Amy Ciavolino
Jul 25, 2018
Event Sourcing made Simple
Event Sourcing made Simple
tl;dr: Event Sourcing is to data what Git is to code. We’ve implemented a minimal event sourcing framework at Kickstarter to power d.rip…
Philippe Creux
Apr 20, 2018
Namespacing Actions for Redux
Namespacing Actions for Redux
Our Experience with Creating Reusable Functional Components with React, Redux, and Redux-Loop
Sarah Groff Hennigh-Palermo
Nov 20, 2017
FRP at Kickstarter and Kotlin
If you’ve browsed the code for our open source iOS or Android apps, you may have noticed that we try to follow Functional Reactive…
Julie
Nov 6, 2017
Upgrading Kickstarter to Rails 5
Fall is here! Change is in the air. And as of last month, Kickstarter runs its two biggest applications on Rails 5: our payments app…
Logan McDonald
Nov 6, 2017
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