Ygrene
In less than a decade, Ygrene has funded more than $1 billion in loans for renewable energy projects. A PACE (Property Assessed Clean Energy) financing company, “We take the equity in a home or a commercial...
August 23, 2018
Workiva
Last fall, MacLeod Broad’s platform team at Workiva was prepping one of the company’s first products utilizing Amazon Web Services when they ran into a roadblock. Early on, Workiva’s backend had run mostly on Google App Engine....
August 23, 2018
Sling TV
The beauty of streaming television, like the service offered by Sling TV, is that you can watch it from any device you want, wherever you want. Of course, from the provider side of things, that creates...
August 7, 2018
Pinterest
Pinterest was born on the cloud—running on AWS since day one in 2010—but even cloud native companies can experience some growing pains. Since its launch, Pinterest has become a household name, with more than 200 million active...
July 16, 2018
The New York Times
Founded in 1851 and known as the newspaper of record, The New York Times is a digital pioneer: Its first website launched in 1996, before Google even existed. After the company decided a few years ago...
July 5, 2018
Capital One
As a top 10 U.S. retail bank, Capital One has applications that handle millions of transactions a day. Big-data decisioning—for fraud detection, credit approvals and beyond—is core to the business. To support the teams that build applications with...
July 5, 2018
Northwestern Mutual
For more than 160 years, Northwestern Mutual has maintained its industry leadership in part by keeping a strong focus on risk management. For many years, the company took a similar approach to managing its technology and...
June 30, 2018
OpenAI
From experiments in robotics to old-school video game play research, OpenAI’s work in artificial intelligence technology is meant to be shared. With a mission to ensure powerful AI systems are safe, OpenAI cares deeply about open...
June 25, 2018
Squarespace
Since it was started in a dorm room in 2003, Squarespace has made it simple for millions of people to create their own websites. Behind the scenes, though, the company’s monolithic Java application was making things...
May 16, 2018
Nordstrom
When Dhawal Patel joined Nordstrom five years ago as an application developer for the retailer’s website, he realized there was an opportunity to help speed up development cycles. In those early DevOps days, Nordstrom Technology still...
May 10, 2018