How to Think Full-Stack
I’d like to share some thoughts on what it means to be a full-stack developer and how to think full-stack while building a web application. But first, a disclaimer: I wouldn’t call myself a...
Indexing Text for Both Effective Search and Accurate Analysis
At Qualtrics, Text iQ is the tool that allows our users to find insights from their free response questions. Powering Text iQ are various microservices that analyze the text and build models for everything...
Load Testing with Apache JMeter
As new clients are onboarded, how do we at Qualtrics ensure that our applications can withstand the growing user base? We hammer our systems in a controlled environment via load testing. This allows us...
Minimizing Operational Cost of Inherited Services
Qualtrics is growing at a rapid rate, both in terms of our customer base and in the amount of data we process on a daily basis. To keep up with the demand, we have...
Build Isolation at Qualtrics
One of the key goals of build engineering is to create repeatable builds and one of the ways to help achieve that is by isolating builds. As you are all well aware, builds take...
Migrating Legacy JS to TypeScript
At Qualtrics nothing can be said to be certain except death, taxes, and absurd quarterly growth. Enter TypeScript, a powerful tool for growing JavaScript codebases. I am going to talk about why we chose...
Docker Exec and Maven AppAssembler
Docker is a powerful tool for defining, building, deploying and running software in containers for self-contained distribution and isolation purposes. AppAssembler is a Maven plugin that is primarily used for generating start scripts for...
Intern Project: Creating a Global Search using Solr
The Internal Systems team at Qualtrics wants to provide our clients, fellow employees, with an easy way to search through data. This data is in many different formats and has various use cases. For...
A Node developer’s perspective on Java promises
Transitioning from a callback-based NodeJS world into Java, I was surprised to find similar support for asynchronous computation in Java 8. Java is known for being a blocking language, so methods for handling long-running...
Don’t Scrap it: Building a QE Ecosystem the Scrappy Way
I joined Qualtrics about two years ago. At the time our Quality Engineering team had 6 people. It has since expanded to about 30. Over the same time period the total number of employees...