The past year has been an exciting one for our mobile apps (Artsy, Folio and Palette Mobile) and we started to finally get closer to where we want to be: High-performing and developer-friendly React Native applications, enabling rapid feature iteration and a superior user experience. We would like t...

Where to begin! Where to begin… Lets start with a good measure of success, one that I think most engineers could agree on: a from-scratch rebuild of a complex, internal tools app. Success with rebuilds is often fleeting, as many can attest. There’s risk involved. Extending the challenge further, let...

Lately, I’ve been getting involved with some sketchy stuff. You know what I’m talking about–data migrations. I’ve been rolling out changes that have a significant risk of breaking our production environment for mission-critical services. It’s been exciting work (keep your eyes out for more posts on ...

At Artsy, we love TypeScript. We use it in most of our node/web/mobile repos. Today, I want to talk about a specific case we found while trying to make our types more strict on palette-mobile, which is our Design System for React Native. Check this out: const welp: "hello" | "world" | string // `wel...

We recently got a report from one of our galleries in the Los Angeles area that they weren’t showing up on our Los Angeles exhibition listings. I fielded the report and right away confirmed: when we asked our core API for /shows?near=<los angeles coordinates>, sure enough this gallery partner didn’t...

At Artsy, exploring ways to improve the developer experience is part of our makeup. Whether it’s implementing hot-swapping for Express.js or integrating the Rust-based SWC compiler into our front-end build pipeline, we’re always trying to reduce the amount of time it takes for a code cycle to take p...

Amongst the many, many things that organizations have to contend with around cookie consent laws is Apple’s very own browser, Safari. Did you know that Safari will only retain a client-side cookie for 7 days? This is in support of Apple’s Intelligent Tracking Prevention (ITP) feature, designed to pr...

How do you tell when it’s time to deprecate a system? If something mostly works OK, is it worth spending time and effort replacing its functionality? At Artsy, we realized several years ago that we needed to be able to group a bunch of artworks together. If we wanted to have a page with all of the c...

As I am writing my first blog post for Artsy, here is a short introduction on who I am: My name is Kaja and I am an engineer in our Berlin entity. As a Ruby-born programmer I am calling myself a backend engineer, but that also may change and is more about emotional identification and less about what...

For those unfamiliar, Artsy is a fine art marketplace. Knowing that, it follows logically to say that the form via which our partners list artworks for sale is an integral part of Artsy’s core systems. This form, known only as “The Artwork Form,” is whispered about in the halls of Arty’s New York he...