Zenefits

Building a World-Class Bug Bounty Program (Part I: An Intro)

This is the first in a series of posts exploring Bug Bounty Programs (BBPs) in general, and the Program created and managed by Zenefits’ Security Team specifically. Two years ago, the Zenefits security team made the decision to start a …

Duplo CI/CD Extensions For Microservices

In an earlier post, we described how Zenefits uses Duplo as a deployment engine and PaaS for hosting microservices. In this blog post we present the CI/CD challenges that arose and how Duplo’s Katkit component was used to address them. …

A Programmer’s Guide to Microservices & SOA

Introduction SOA or Service Oriented Architecture has been one of the buzzwords among architects and senior-developers, appearing commonly in job descriptions for the last few years. However, most of the definitions of SOA online are riddled with formal words, such …

Learning Ember by Proxy (ObjectProxy Part I)

Today we’ll run through a quick example of an ObjectProxy in EmberJS. Our example revolves around Ember’s computed properties, which we have explored in-depth previously on our engineering blog here. Imagine we have an Employee model that’s a core model …

Basic Infrastructure Patterns

In his first email to Zenefits employees as our new CEO, David Sacks emphasized three core values, and value number one was “Operate with integrity.” As the platform counted on by tens of thousands of small businesses across America, Zenefits …

Best Street Practices: I Want It That Way (Promises Part II)

As we’ve discussed in Part I of this series, Javascript ain’t nothing but a heartache without a proper understanding of its fundamentals and a solution to keep Async `N Sync. Today, we review best practices for Promises in general and …

Async ‘N Sync: This I Promise You (Promises Part I)

From the perspective of its fundamental language features (many argue bugs!), Javascript’s current day popularity comes as a total surprise. Closures, the keyword this, and prototypal inheritance may be confusing concepts to newcomers and odd opinions to experienced programmers new …