At Remind we operate one of the largest communication tools for education in the United States and Canada. We have millions of parents, students, teachers and administrators use our application each day to improve learning outcomes by sending 10s of millions of messages per day. With this large scal...

Betterscaling was designed and implemented by Phil Frost. Phil was an exceptional engineer and a brilliant person, and he is dearly missed by all of us at Remind who knew him. I had the privilege of interviewing Phil extensively about Betterscaling over the course of writing this article — much of i...

Inclusive Language Overview The Sustaining Engineering team at Remind recently implemented changes that focus on using inclusive language within our codebases. We encourage other engineering teams to do the same, and hope these updates create a more inclusive space for everyone at Remind. Terms like...

You sent me a Word doc on Wed 18 Mar 2020. Inside the doc was a copy/paste of a very large slack conversation. Inside the conversation was the complete contents of our production incidents channel on the morning of Mon 16 Mar. I glanced at the document, but was busy - our systems were straining and ...

At Remind, we help educators communicate with millions of students and families. These connections are critical for supporting student learning, especially with school closures this year, and it’s equally important for all of the communications on our platform to be secure, protected, and reliably d...

Availability is the lifeblood of any app. Downtime blocks new users from signing up, it damages the company reputation, and so on. Additionally for Remind, serving education administrators as they work to increase engagement of entire communities further drives the need for our systems to be availab...

At Remind we have built a robust communication platform that makes it easy for educators, students, and parents to work together. Our users use Remind to keep classes organized, to help each other with school assignments, and to send out announcements for school events. Given these important use cas...

For the past couple years we’ve been implementing new features with an MVVM-driven approach. Over that time, we’ve settled into a couple of good (I think) patterns for implementing UIView subclasses, composing them in various view hierarchies, and handling the interactions between them. Ultimately, ...

This issue was publicly disclosed on the Homebrew blog at https://brew.sh/2018/08/05/security-incident-disclosure/ Since the recent NPM, RubyGems, and Gentoo incidents, I’ve become increasingly interested, and concerned, with the potential for package managers to be used in supply chain attacks to d...

In the early days of stacker at Remind, the number of stacks that we were managing was just a handful. CloudFormation stacks were updated sequentially, without any parallelism, and everyone was happy. Today, stacker manages 153 CloudFormation stacks that build out all of the AWS infrastructure that ...