Friday, September 11, 2015

A coding demo on Grunt, RequireJS, AngularJS and Yeoman



Our Client Side Engineers at Bodybuilding.com have fully embraced a modern front-end tech stack to speed up development, testing, and deploys. We use AngularJS to build and scale our social and eCommerce apps, RequireJS for modularity in our build process, and Grunt and Yeoman for minification, compilation, linking, and more.


Learn how Bodybuilding.com transitioned to these frameworks and tools with live coding demonstrations.




Thursday, September 10, 2015

Improving Fault and Latency Tolerance with Hystrix



The API for Bodybuilding.com serves more than a hundred million API calls everyday across hundreds of servers. In this video you will learn how we use Hystrix to build a distributed system that is both fault and latency tolerant. We will discuss the bulkhead and circuit breaker patterns used by Hystrix to provide a resilient and fast API.