
AWS CloudFront User Authentication using Lambda@Edge
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Widen Engineering
As part of Widen's commitment to contributing back to the open-source community, we have sponsored work to improve the CSS variables implementation in WebKit. Read on to learn …
Dagster + Meltano: A complete open-source ELT solution for the …
When we, the Widen Data Team, began looking to revamp our ELT platform we chose Dagster and Meltano. Here's why.
Open Source Guidelines | Widen Engineering
Projects should not depend on internal Widen infrastructure. Making something that interacts with our public APIs and sites is fine, but a project that launches EC2 instances in our cloud is not.
A Tale of Performance - JavaScript, Rust, and WebAssembly - Widen
Welcome to another Widen engineering blog post! Today, we’re going to embark on a journey of optimization. We’ll compare and contrast multiple approaches to solving a simple performance …
Tomcat Hates Encoded Slashes | Widen Engineering
So, our URI of “/proxy/http%3A%2F%2Fwiden.com%2Fcareers” is being expanded to “/proxy/http%3A//widen.com/careers” before it is routed to a matching endpoint handler. Of …
The Future of Web Development - React, Falcor, and ES6 - Widen
In fact, some of Widen’s emerging software products will make use of all of the new technologies discussed in this article. Next, I’ll document each notable new tool.
Why We Use Yarn | Widen Engineering
The best package manager for you is not what this blog or that blog recommends, but the one you feel most comfortable with. This post is intended to share why we at Widen chose Yarn as our …
The Story of Widen's Frontend Component Library
Over time, Patterns grew from where it started as a side project to an integral part of front-end development at Widen. Developers were able to build new features much quicker by using the …
The Future of Web Development (Part 2): Full-Stack Automated …
While Widen/fullstack-react was designed to be simple to allow us to focus on the concepts needed to create and test a futuristic full-stack JavaScript web application, there are certainly …