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Meet a Co-founder: Prakash Janakiraman, Chief Architect

Meet a Co-founder: Prakash Janakiraman, Chief Architect

Prakash Janakiraman is Co-Founder and Chief Architect at Nextdoor.
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Sean BromageMar 31
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Building VPCs with CloudFormation Templates

Building VPCs with CloudFormation Templates

Back in August of 2015, I wrote about how we were Migrating from EC2 Classic to multiple VPCs. I mentioned that we did it with…
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Matt WiseMar 18
Unit testing Apache Spark with py.test

Unit testing Apache Spark with py.test

Nextdoor uses Apache Spark (mostly PySpark) in production to process and learn from voluminous event data. Spark’s API (especially the…
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Vikas KawadiaMar 16
Using Puppet to set up Docker Distribution and Portus

Using Puppet to set up Docker Distribution and Portus

Here at Nextdoor we’ve been using Docker for about 18 months in various development-focused use cases — and even in production in a few…
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Matt WiseMar 4
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Vivek KaruturiOct 30, 20158 min read

Engineering a culture of fluidity and learning at Nextdoor

For me, part of the allure of small companies and startups has always been that the delta between what they are today and what they can become tomorrow is often very large. Bridging this delta is where the risks, inherent…

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Prakash JanakiramanJul 2, 20153 min read

What is the technology behind Nextdoor?

(This post is adapted from the answer of this Quora question: What is the technology behind Nextdoor?)

Some behind-the-scenes insight into the technology behind Nextdoor.

Serving Stack

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Abhijeet KumarSep 10, 20153 min read

Managing Mobile App Releases

Mobile app releases pose a number of challenges to teams trying to move fast. This is how Nextdoor moves with mobile.

Mobile engineers at Nextdoor want to push releases of mobile apps as often as web. The nature of mobile poses several challenges that…

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Jacob HeschJul 13, 20123 min read

Introducing git-change

At Nextdoor we believe that code quality is directly reflected in the quality of our products. One of the key ways to keep the level of code quality high is to have every commit reviewed by peers. Peer code reviews help spread knowledge around, provide an opportunity to catch bugs, style…

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Vikas KawadiaOct 22, 20155 min read

At Night the Ice Weasels come: A chat with our co-founder, David Wiesen

This week, Vikas Kawadia from Nextdoor Engineering is interviewing one of Nextdoor’s co-founders and leading light David Wiesen, a.k.a Ice Weasel.

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