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Automating Relevance Tuning for Event Search

Learn how automating relevance tuning for event search can revolutionize your approach, leveraging machine learning techniques and implicit judgments to optimize search results and improve user engagement.

The Power of Collaboration in Product Development

Discover how our Eventbrite product team collaborates across multiple disciplines to ensure we’re thinking about customer needs from all angles.

3 Questions With Sapna Nair — Eventbrite’s New VP of Engineering in India

Learn why Sapna Nair chose Eventbrite and the approach she’s taking to build out her new team with these three questions.

Monitoring Your System

As Eventbrite engineering leans into team-owned infrastructure, or DevOps, we're learning a lot of new technologies in order to stand up our infrastructure.

Packaging generated code from protobuf files for gRPC Services

One of the main challenges that we face is sharing Protobuf files between teams, and how we published clients to AWS CodeArtifact to be used by services.

Reflecting on Eventbrite’s Journey From Centralized Ops to DevOps

Eventbrite has grown into the leader for event ticketing globally. Discover how our technical stack has changed, and how we continue to evolve and improve it.

Crafting Eventbrite’s Data Vision

Our team’s mission is to enable Creators, Attendees and Britelings to self-serve on quality data at scale to derive insights that drive business impact.

Creating the 3 Year Frontend Strategy

Leverage the Requirements and Tenets to define a strategy that shifts ownership from a single team responsible for ops to individual teams.

Creating a 3 Year Frontend Vision

JC Fant IV Oct-5th-2021 History Over the course of the last 21 years I’ve spent time in nearly every aspect of the technical stack, however, I’ve always been drawn to the frontend as the best place to be able to impact customers. I’ve enjoyed the rapid iterations, and the ability to visualize those changes in … Continue reading "Creating a 3 Year Frontend Vision"

A day in the life of a Technical Fellow

In my two most recent blog posts, I talked about how to write a Long-Term Technical Vision and a Golden Path. These are future-looking and high-level artifacts so the question I keep hearing is: do I need to give up coding to grow in my career and become a Technical Fellow? In this post I will … Continue reading "A day in the life of a Technical Fellow"

Writing our Golden Path

In my last blog post I explained how we defined our 3-year technical vision for the company. One of the key pillars of this vision is shifting from a model where we used the same tool for every job (mostly a combination of Python + Django + MySQL), to the right tool(s) for each job. … Continue reading "Writing our Golden Path"

Writing our 3-year technical vision

I joined Eventbrite as their first Technical Fellow, the most senior engineering individual contributor role in the company. One of my initial goals was to come up with an overarching technical vision for the whole company aligned with our 3-year business strategy, and that would move us away from a monolithic architecture and central SRE … Continue reading "Writing our 3-year technical vision"

How we created our 3-year technical vision

Eventbrite is a global company. We have employees in many countries around the globe, and we believe in the future of remote work. This is no different in Engineering. With offices in San Francisco, Nashville, Mendoza and Madrid, and many of our team members working remotely, our global team has a rich and diverse culture. … Continue reading "How we created our 3-year technical vision"

MySQL High Availability at Eventbrite

Situation Eventbrite has been using MySQL since its inception as a company in 2006. MySQL has served the company well as an OLTP database and we’ve leveraged the strong features of MySQL such as native replication and fast reads, as well as dealt with some of its pain points such as impactful table ALTERs. The … Continue reading "MySQL High Availability at Eventbrite"

Building a Protest Map: A Behind the Scenes Look!

Sometimes, a project that you’re most proud of or passionate about isn’t one that involves architecture diagrams or deep technical discussions. Sometimes, the most significant project is one that allows peers to come together to build something that can have a positive impact. When we can all collaborate for a cause we’re passionate about, and … Continue reading "Building a Protest Map: A Behind the Scenes Look!"

How are you building/maintaining team cohesion?

Let’s face it! 2020 has been a year of huge change! One of the biggest changes is with how we work. Like many other companies, Eventbrite has transitioned to a fully remote work environment with engineers and managers located across the globe. We have development centers in San Francisco (USA), Nashville (USA), Mendoza (Argentina), and … Continue reading "How are you building/maintaining team cohesion?"

Teaching new Presto performance tricks to the Old-School DBA

I’ve spent much of my career working with relational databases such as Oracle and MySQL, and SQL performance has always been an area of focus for me. I’ve spent countless hours reviewing EXPLAIN plans, rewriting subqueries, adding new indexes, and chasing down table-scans. I’ve been trained to make performance improvements such as:  only choose columns … Continue reading "Teaching new Presto performance tricks to the Old-School DBA"

Create Meaningful (and Fun!) Remote Community

What does community mean? How can you create meaningful community? Exploring both active and passive engagement ideas, learn how to engage in community.

Leveraging “spot” instances to drive down costs

I had the pleasure of participating in a Big Data Cost Optimization event in San Francisco (October 17) at the AWS Loft location. I was a panelist in a round-table discussion focusing on the use of AWS spot instances. It was a terrific opportunity to share how Eventbrite’s Data Engineering team is smartly using spot … Continue reading "Leveraging “spot” instances to drive down costs"

Discover “Pro D3.js”, a new book to improve your JavaScript data visualizations

Marcos Iglesias' new book, "Pro D3.js", teaches a maintainable, modular, and testable approach to create D3.js-based data visualizations.

A Story of a React Re-Rendering Bug

As front-end developers, we often find ourselves getting into perplexing bugs when the page we build involves a lot of user interactions. When we find a bug, no matter how tricky it is, it means something is wrong in the code. There is no magic, and the code itself does not lie. This blog will …

How boba trips and event onsites made me a better engineer (a Briteling intern’s reflection on community at Eventbrite)

Written by 2019 summer Organizer App intern Vivian Phung Hello World! I’m Vivian Phung, a Computer Science and Mathematics double major at Bryn Mawr College, and for the last few months, an iOS Software Engineering intern on Eventbrite’s Organizer App Team. Some of the best parts of my internship were the communities I had the …

How to fix the ugly focus ring and not break accessibility in React

Creating beautiful designs while maintaining accessibility has always been a challenge in the frontend. Learn about the “:focus” ring and how to solve it.

How to be a Successful Junior Engineer

I came to software engineering through a nontraditional background, and as a result, I entered the engineering world trepidatiously with a great fear of failing. As I gained experience in my first few engineering roles, I realized that being successful had to do with providing myself the right tools. In this blog post, I outline …

The Truth about Boundaries, Curiosity, and Requests (Part 2 of 2)

In this article we cover curiosity and requests, which used together, help us manage boundaries and navigate through other’s boundaries.

The Truth about Boundaries, Curiosity, and Requests (Part 1 of 2)

Read to learn how managing boundaries is essential to healthy conflict, reduced stress, and creating a psychologically safe environment for yourself.

BriteBytes: Maddie Cousens

Read about Maddie Cousens, how she became the first woman at Eventbrite on the Site Reliability Engineering team and what she has learned along the way

The 63-point Plan for Helping Your Remote Team Succeed

Working with remote teams is hard. In this post, read tips to streamline meetings, work with JIRA, and best practices when running your remote one-on-ones.

What the Top Minds in Tech Communicated at Hopperx1 Seattle

The Hopperx1 Seattle Conference was an impressive two-day event with 92 speakers and 1500 women for two days. Here are some of our big takeaways.

8 Simple Tips for better Communication with Customer-Facing Teams

Businesses often maintain documentation as part of their product. You might be thinking of help center articles, hover text, and little anthropomorphic paper clips. But, the end user is not the only one who benefits from guidance around a product’s intended use. Customer-facing teams, like sales and customer support, also need thorough product communications. Enabling …

What is the best way to hire QA Engineers?

If you are a leader, hiring is one of your most important responsibilities. Read on to discover how to find the best QA engineers for your team.

Open Data: The what, why and how to get started

Customer-facing companies would benefit from sharing data between them. Discover what is Open Data, why is it important and how you can get started.

How to Craft a Successful Engineering Interview

Interviewing engineering candidates is hard. Read on to learn how to manage your time, make good interview questions and coding challenges.

Design System Wednesday: A Supportive Professional Community

Design systems produce a lot of value yet they take considerable time and work to set up and maintain. Design System Wednesdays is a community event for the community, by the community.

BriteBytes: Nam-Chi Van

Have you ever wondered what it's like to be an engineer at Eventbrite? Read about one of our Senior Engineers, Nam-Chi Van, and her time on the Eventbrite engineering team.

Why Would Webpack Stop Re-compiling? (The Quest for Micro-Apps)

We were experiencing an issue where Webpack would mysteriously stop re-compiling and provide no error messaging. Read on to learn how we solved it.

How To Move From Customer Support to Engineering in 5 Steps

You don’t need a technical degree to become a software engineer. Learn the steps you can take to make a career move from customer support into engineering.

Boosting Big Data workloads with Presto Auto Scaling

Read how Eventbrite leverages AWS Auto Scaling for Presto using Groups, Policies and Configurations to provide better throughput at a fraction of the cost.

Automated Cross-Browser Testing for WebGL— It’s Not Going to Happen

Look into how the Reserved squad at Eventbrite uses Rainforest QA to test complex WebGL user flows and avoid writing flaky Acceptance Tests.

Varnish and A-B Testing: How to Play Nice

A/B testing pages served via edge caches, such as Varnish, can create unique challenges. Thankfully using tools such as ESI, we can make them disappear.

The Fundamental Problem of Search

There is a fundamental problem with search relevance. Search applications need to act upon sparse information and provide useful results.

How to Make Swift Product Changes Using a Design System

Start saving time and money by having a shared library to increase consistency, increase the accessibility of your product, and make broad changes safe.

BriteBytes: Diego “Kartones” Muñoz

BriteBytes features interviews with Eventbrite’s growing engineering team, shining a light on the individuals who build the technology that powers Eventbrite.

Rethinking quality and the engineers who protect it

Testing software is an important responsibility, but testing is not a synonym for quality. Dig deeper into quality and what it means to be a QA Engineer in this post.

The Quest for React Micro-Apps: Single App Mode

Learn how Eventbrite's Frontend Platform team is decoupling React applications from themselves and the Django monolith with a single app mode.

The Quest for React Micro-Apps: The Beginning

In our new React stack, we have a lack of flexibility, coupling, and scale. We want micro-apps developed and deployed individually. In this blog post series, we relate our quest.

Simple and Easy Mentorship with a Mentoring Agreement

A mentoring agreement sets the expectations of the mentor-mentee relationship, streamlines communication and highlights its goals and deadlines.

How to Make Your Next Event App Remarkable with these 4 Mobile Navigation Gestures

How Eventbrite mapped the 4 mobile navigation gestures to the event discovery experience and made a remarkable app

Eventbrite Engineering at PyConES

PyConES is the main event for Python in Spain. We share our most recent experiences through our sessions or while hanging out with a coffee in hand.

Getting the most out of React Alicante

The Eventbrite team attended React Alicante a two-day conference. Learn about the news in React ecosystem and our favorite talks at the event.

Getting started with Unit Tests

Learn why unit tests are an essential part of your development workflow and how you can start writing them for your new and legacy projects.

The “Aha” Moments of Becoming an Engineering Manager

Making the leap to being an engineering manager is one of the most challenging transitions an individual contributor (IC) can choose to make in their career

Grace Hopper 2018: Five Unforgettable Experiences

Learn about the most inspiring, surprising, outstanding and the best career advice I got from the 2018 Grace Hopper event.

The Lies We Tell Ourselves

To avoid cognitive dissonances, we engage in self-deceptive strategies. Sometimes, they are incredibly useful, more often, self-deception is toxic.

How Your Company Can Support Junior Engineers

Learn what your company needs to do to avoid overwhelming situations for junior engineers and make it easy for them to be contributor of your organization

Creating Flexible and Reusable React File Uploaders

The Event Creation team at Eventbrite needed a React based image uploader that would provide flexibility while presenting a straightforward user interface.

8 Reasons Why Manual Testing is Still Important

The increase of test automation adoption has unjustly framed manual testing as an archaic and unnecessary practice. After watching an automation suite swiftly execute an entirely library of test cases, it can be easy to tunnel vision on the great benefits of automation. However, the value of manually executing your tests cannot be understated; here …

Looking under the hood of the Eventbrite data pipeline!

Eventbrite’s mission is to bring the world together through live experiences. To achieve this goal, Eventbrite relies on data-driven decisions at every level. In this post, we explore Eventbrite’s treasure trove of data and how we leverage it to push the company forward. We also take a closer look at some of the data challenges …

Be the change

Since this is our first post on our blog in Spanish (this article is a translation of Ser el Cambio), we wanted to start off with a bang by featuring one of our most challenging projects we’re facing as a company. Though our offices might not be new, our engineering team is constantly growing, and …

Mother May I?

Important announcement about updates to API V3 and evolving permissions at Eventbrite If you want to skip straight to the content on the changes that will impact our API developers please visit our Google Group and read the message pinned to the top. Permissions have been an ever growing challenge at Eventbrite as we have …