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Thanks for Your Letters. Now We Can Parse Them.
Overview: This post focuses on our experiences building on Postmark’s Inbound feature. Postmark is Our Trusted Mail Carrier Here at Sprout we use Postmark to deliver the emails that come out of our...
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Building a Custom Icon Font for the Web
With mobile devices accounting for over 10% of all Web traffic and hardware manufacturers producing higher pixel density screens, it’s clear that the days of one-size-fits-all icon sprite images are...
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My Change Control Workflow
My goal as a developer is to deliver a great product in the least amount of time possible without sacrificing quality. In recent years I’ve refined my workflow to facilitate my needs. Having a...
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Javascript Time Zone Conversion with Walltime
Time is important. Keeping accurate time has been one of the major challenges of technology throughout all of history. Here’s a little history lesson from the US Navy: In 1845, at the request of the...
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Our Dear Friend, MySQL
We use MySQL a lot at Sprout Social. NoSQL is throughout our stack too; Cassandra, HBase and Redis are very important to us for niche problems. But MySQL is our workhorse and we power many parts of...
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Building a Better Grunt Plugin
Here at Sprout we’ve been switching over our build process from Phing to Grunt. It was an obvious choice since most of us are mainly JavaScript devs on the front-end side and we’re trying to minimize...
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Android: Using Volley and Loopj with Self-Signed Certificates
A new Android networking library named Volley was introduced this year at Google I/O. According to Ficus Kirkpatrick, one of the creators, it should provide a performance boost, give customization...
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An Experiment in Nomadic Teams
Here’s a groundbreaking, revolutionary experiment… in seating arrangements. Yesterday one of our project teams started sitting with each other. They picked up their things — computer, monitors,...
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“Heartbleed” Security Update: Sprout Social Remains Safe to Use
Yesterday, a new vulnerability was discovered affecting SSL, a protocol most of the Internet uses to encrypt and secure communications. The Sprout Social engineering team was quick to respond,...
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Trendy Engineering: How We Built the Twitter Trends Report
Many of our customers receive thousands of mentions per day — far more than can be read and understood in aggregate. The recently launched Trends Report was created to provide an easily consumable...
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Beautiful Code
It is important to write beautiful code. The field of software engineering is inherently aesthetic. Beauty is an insatiable motivation, and embracing the pursuit of beauty as a priority in our work...
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What Is an API, and Why Does It Matter?
We’re living in an incredibly fast-paced world, where nearly every phrase seems to be abbreviated to save time. Whether purely social (LOL, OMG, TTYL) or strictly business (ROI, CTR, CPA), shorthand...
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Boosting TCP Performance to Deliver Data Faster to Our Customers
Disclaimer: This post is intentionally aimed at the engineering crowd. It’s a little geeky—and even esoteric among geeks—but it also showcases the deep thinking that goes into creating the best...
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Code Editor Tips: Top Sublime 3 Packages
This article originally appeared on the blog of Jonathan Stassen, Frontend Developer at Sprout Social. Especially for our friends and customers with engineering backgrounds and interests, we hope you...
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Guarding the Guards
In the fall of 2013, Sprout Social Engineers Aaron Zimmerman and Dave Huber undertook an ambitious endeavor, writing a new scheduled message sending system to make Sprout’s platform even better. This...
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We’re Always Working to Make Sprout Quicker
If you stay current with our product updates, you know the Sprout Social product team is always adding and improving product features. We constantly release improvements, big and small, often more...
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Meet Team Sprout: James, Web Team Manager
As a member of Sprout Social’s talent team, I hear one question all the time: “What’s the best part of working at Sprout?” My colleagues say they can tell when someone has asked this question over the...
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Our Experience Switching From Less to Sass
A lot has been written about switching from vanilla CSS to a CSS preprocessor, and for good reason—preprocessors add power and control we can’t get in the browser alone. From articles that extol the...
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How Sprout Social Keeps Customer Data Safe
Software and operations engineers are a passionate bunch. If you were to listen in on a group conversation, you’d hear a lot of strong opinions. People caring so much about the jobs they do and the...
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Meet Team Sprout: Jack, Product Manager
Sprout recently launched our new Instagram integration, and it has all of us around the office taking mad selfies day in and day out. Since the Meet Team Sprout series is our chance to introduce you...
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