In the history of inventions, the rivalry between Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison is one of the most famous. Their competition in the field of electricity is sometimes referred to as the “war of currents.” Live Science describes Tesla as having the ability to “accurately visualize intricate 3D objects” and “really work out his inventions […]
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Your Internet experience runs on APIs. The acronym has helped you compare the best prices for flights, allowed you to embed a map into your store’s website and seamlessly processed your credit card payments. But what is an API and why does it matter to you? In this article, we’ll give a high-level overview of
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I’ve been a professional developer for about six years now. During those six years I’ve never worked for a company or on a project that didn’t struggle with date and time issues in some form. Nearly every application you will work on requires the use of time in some way, meaning that at some point
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At Sprout Social, our engineering team works in small units called “squads.” Each engineering squad works very closely to one another as they tackle building our product together day in and day out. Working with these teams, we’ve noted a few of the ways that team members become beloved assets to their squads. As we
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When I started college, my goal was to become a doctor. Of course, it’s probably clear that was not the path I ultimately chose to take. I am currently a Senior Software Engineer here at Sprout Social, a position I landed in after nearly 16 years in the technology space. My choice to switch directions
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At some point nearly every SaaS company receives a feature request to export user data. The request usually comes in the form of “I want to export my data to a <Microsoft Office Product> file.” Here at Sprout Social we’ve gotten these requests before and today we support CSV and PDF exports for nearly all
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As I close out my first year as a full-time Software Engineer here at Sprout, I am reminded of one moment during my internship last summer that will always stick with me. In my final week, I was called into a meeting where several senior engineers guided my fellow interns and me on how to
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