: WiT - Giving Feedback with Lisa Even Women in Tech organized an event on August 1, 2023 for folks to network and learn from the external …
: Giving back to the AWS community Open source has become the de facto way to build software not only in tech, but across diverse …
: SPS Partners with, and Sponsors, Society of Women Engineers - University of MN Chapter SPS Commerce is excited to partner with and sponsor the University of Minnesota Chapter of SWE …
: My Journey to Becoming an SPS Intern (+Tips and Tricks) This post is the first part of a series in …
: Celebrating Hacktoberfest as SPS Autumn is my favorite season in Minnesota. Something about the cooler temps and crisp air, the …
: DevEx-Powered API-led Product Growth With the release of our REST API Standards, SPS Commerce is committed to continually evolving our …
: September GoMN Meetup Real people and real pizza, what a combo! Join us in person or virtually for “Observing …
: SPS Commerce joins TechNova Women+ in Tech Hackathon SPS Application Engineer Charlotte Countryman shared her experience as a judge for the TechNova …
: SPS Commerce REST API Standards Now Open Source The SPS Commerce Tech Team has been working tirelessly over the past few years in curating a single …
: Innovation is for Everyone! Recently, I joined the first hackathon, aka innovation project, of my life. The hackathon was part …
: TechJam 2022: Back to the Jam! Each year SPS Technologists participate in a volunteer-led internal tech conference, called TechJam. …
: eBook: The API Roadmap Stoplight recently made available a free ebook resource titled The API Roadmap: Secrets to API …
: How we used Jaeger to improve the performance of an application At SPS Commerce we are moving all our APIs into Kubernetes. There are many reasons for this change, …
: New WiT Steering Committee SPS WiT is proud to announce a new steering committee! Thank you to outgoing members, Annie …
: SPS Hosts GoMN this Wednesday, May 18 at 6pm This Wednesday, May 18, at 6:00 pm, the GoMN Meetup is welcoming John Murphy who will present …
: SPS Commerce + No Fluff Just Stuff (NFJS) If you have ever gone browsing for some great conferences for software engineers, you likely have …
: AWS SDK Credential Provider Multi-Region Behaviors In the course of investigating an issue with a multi-region deployment in AWS EKS, I ran into not …
: SPS Hosts GoMN this Wednesday, April 20 at 6pm This Wednesday, April 20, at 6:00 pm, the GoMN Meetup is welcoming Raj Auradkar who will present …
: SPS Commerce at the MN Tech Job & Opportunity Fair on 03/24/2022 SPS Commerce will participate in the MNtech Job and Opportunities Fair at The Machine Shop on …
: Developer Experience & API Style Guides at SPS Commerce SPS Commerce is moving fast in adopting an API-First culture and mindset, as we re-envision our API …
: SPS Commerce + Azure Pipelines: A CI/CD Journey SPS Commerce is a “booming” technology and SaaS-based organization to work for. Like any enterprise …
: 2022 Technology Internship Positions Now Open! Our interns are the coolest bunch around, and we are looking forward to meeting the next round of …
: Plan, Plan & Prepare for the Unexpected: Cyber Week 2021 My husband, Joe, wanted to buy a tractor for over five years to use at our cabin to grade the …
: SPS talks about Feature Flagging in a customer panel for LaunchDarkly Recently, I was invited to join a panel of customers for an event called “Launch and …
: Peace of Mind & Two SPS Engineers Were the Big Winners at Hack The Gap: Two of our Software Engineers from our Minneapolis office, Ana Knickerbocker (find her on Twitter …
: Everyday Security with Eric Ebner SPS Teach team members had the pleasure of meeting and speaking with Eric Ebner, CEO of Protocol 46 …
: Happiest Hour with Jade Denson This week at SPS we are preparing for our “Happiest Hour with Jade Denson” co-hosted by …
: SPS Emphasizes Security Awareness at Work and Home As is custom for SPS, we participate in October National Cybersecurity Month. Each week during the …
: Cloud Cost as Just Another Metric – “the old ways of managing infrastructure aren’t just ineffective in cloud; …
: Think Like A Programmer with SPS Commerce (at camp!) What do Girl Scouts, SPS Engineers, marshmallows, and sick dance moves have in common? You will find …
: Working with Globally Distributed Teams - Building Trust (Task-Based & Relationship-Based) Today, I’m going to continue my Growing Your Cultural Awareness in Business series, drawing on …
: Kubb Tournament We have a lot of talents in #TeamSPS. Yesterday the Minneapolis Tech teams showed off some of those …
: Elevating the Developers Experience SPS Commerce’s Travis Gosselin had the opportunity to join the Fail Faster Podcast this month, …
: Jake Freeberg is going to be part of LaunchDarkly's Launch + Learn on Tuesday, September 14 @ 2:00pm CT Feature Management Platform LaunchDarkly has been a core part of SPS Commerce’s approach to …
: Goodbye Summer Interns! We say goodbye to our 2021 summer interns this week, and what a group of interns they were! At SPS, …
: TeamSPS Supporting TechNova and uWaterloo SPS is a sponsor for TechNova and its First Global Women+ in Tech Hackathon event on August 24-29. …
: GoMN is returning to SPS! GoMN is a “meetup” that gathers to discuss the Go programming language and its …
: SPS TechJam 2021 Last month the SPS Technology department held TechJam - the yearly SPS technology community-led …
: Team SPS Representing at DevOps Days Minneapolis! Big shout-out to Charlotte Countryman and Tim Olson for representing Team SPS Tech at DevOps Days, …
: TeamSPS is Headed to DevOps Minneapolis! Will we see you at DevOps Days Minneapolis later this month? SPS is once again sponsoring …
: .NET Core and AWS Secrets .NET Core with runtime secrets has been a bit of a journey within the AWS ecosystem over the past 5 …
: Andre Burgaud Presents httpexpect at GoMN meetup this Wednseday! This Wednesday, June 16, at 6:00 pm, the GoMN Meetup is welcoming SPS’s own Andre Burgaud who …
: Welcome Summer 2021 Interns The 2021 SPS Summer Internship program started this week! We have 18 interns in Minneapolis this …
: SPS Celebrates Pride Month for the first time in Company History! The LGBTQ+ Employee Resource Group at SPS, with support of Executive Sponsor Lynn Myhran and in …
: SPS at Open Source North SPS Commerce was a Platinum Sponsor for Open Source North this year, which took place on Thursday, …
: How to Give a Tech Talk - An Opportunity for our Team Members to Grow the Skills Needed to Present at Tech Conferences We are currently preparing for our annual internal conference, Tech Jam! Each year, we have a …
: Professional Development Week It’s Professional Development Week at SPS! This means we are able to take some time to pepper …
: MN Aspirations in Computing Hackathon Event Amplifying partner events is one way that TeamSPS lives out our value of Give Back. We are proud …
: Decision-Making Across Cultures: Top-Down vs Consensus-Based Today, I’m going to continue my Growing Your Cultural Awareness in Business series, drawing on …
: Introducing "nap": an unusual fix to a bewildering bug In 2019, I sat wide-eyed in a presentation hall at KubeCon in San Diego. There I mustered all of my …
: Open Source Guild A few weeks ago, we told you about our SPS Guilds. The Open-Source Guild (OSG) was formed in 2020 …
: I'm Here: Ian Anderson, Software Engineering Manager Hello, I’m here to listen and to amplify those with seldom heard voices. I’m here to acknowledge my …
: May Meetup - How to land your first technology job: Tips from an experienced tech recruiter Are you or someone who know looking to break into the tech industry? Or maybe you’re looking …
: I'm Here: Alexandra Smith - On becoming a 1st-time mother during a Pandemic On Friday, March 13th, 2020, I headed out to the 1029 in Northeast Minneapolis with my coworkers for …
: Be Bold, Break the Mold & SPS Commerce Background During the academic year of 2020-2021, North Hennepin Community College is piloting a new …
: Liquibase Learnings and CICD Liquibase is one of those technologies that I knew the name of at SPS Commerce well before I ever …
: Technology Guilds @SPS Commerce Guilds are a self-organizing group of people with common interests. It is a natural forum for social …
: DevOps Meetup: April 1st April 1st @ 5:30 join us in this SPS Commerce sponsored meetup! Andy Sciro will be presenting his …
: Moving from Dependabot-Preview to Dependabot Native Dependabot native has been around for a couple of years now after GitHub officially acquired it in …
: Reading The Water: Phishing Training at SPS Commerce Picture this: it’s 2007. A very wealthy prince desperately wants to gift you a portion of his …
: Transformation at Scale When companies recognize the need to scale their team-based agility methodologies it’s easy to …
: I'm Here: Maddie Sandish, Software Engineer I’m Here. As a three-time software engineer intern at SPS Commerce, I’ve had the unique …
: Brython: Python in Your Browser Our very own Andre Burgaud recently published an article with Real Python sharing a tutorial on how …
: Leading Across Cultures (Hierarchical vs. Egalitarian Leadership) Today, I’m going to continue my Growing Your Cultural Awareness in Business series, drawing on …
: PyCascades 2021 - Thoughts from an Attendee The organizers of PyCascades put on an amazing remote event for the 2021 edition. Over the last 12 …
: Wrapping up SPS Tech Summit - A Big THANK YOU! Yesterday we closed out our 2021 Tech Summit event. As discussed in our last post, the Tech Summit …
: Virtual SPS Tech Summit Kickoff I believe the workplace culture is to SPS what our personalities are to us. It’s what makes us …
: The Softer Side of Agile Far too often when issues arise within our teams, we default to blaming the current methodology or …
: I'm Here: Gordy Flam Consider this: When people all think the same way, they rarely challenge each other to think outside …
: Debugging Go Services in Kubernetes with Skaffold and Telepresence Tonight 2/17/2021, at 6:00 pm, the GoMN Meetup is welcoming Peter O’Neil who will present …
: My favorite features coming in Javascript ES2021 Photo by KiVEN Zhao on Unsplash It’s incredible to think that the LANDMARK Javascript release …
: Happy 20th Anniversary to the Agile Manifesto! I’m feeling exhilarated, recharged, and inspired after attending the Scrum Alliance panel sessions …
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Feature Flags & Scaling with Microservices
Our very own Travis Gosselin presented at the DevOps Underground London online meetup last month! …
: I'm Here: Jon Beattie I’m here first and foremost in my home. And that’s not just because we’ve all been …
: Black History Month at SPS SPS Comemerce kicked off our Black History month activities today by hosting an event for our global …
: AWS Cross-Account Resource Access Patterns AWS Account Granularity The growth of SPS Commerce has continued to be very strong, even amidst the …
: February Cloud Computing and Software Engineering Meetup - Chaos Engineering In development, we often focus the majority of our time on answering the question “how does …
: SPS team members share their learnings from the Grace Hopper Celebration SPS WiT (Women in Tech) sent members of our Technology team to join the other 30,000 attendees at …
: Many Things By Season Season'd Are It’s that PI planning time of year again. We race to wrap up our releases - …
: Maddie Sandish was a three time returning intern this past summer, participating in our first-ever …
: Wrapping up the First PI Planning of 2021 The first Program Increment Planning event of 2021 is wrapping up. Teams spent this week joining …
: January Cloud Computing and Software Engineering Meetup The Cloud Computing and Software Engineering Meetup has its next online event on Thursday January …
: Persuasion & Reasoning Across Cultures Today, I’m going to continue my Growing Your Cultural Awareness in Business series, drawing on …
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Interview with Jamie Thingelstad
Kicking off 2021 by sharing this interview that Jamie Thingelstad, Chief Technology Officer, Sr. VP …
: Closing out 2020 with Gratitude Cultivating gratitude can be a difficult task, especially in a year like 2020. As we reflect on the …
: Our First Annual SPS Tech Holiday Concert – A Success! On December 22, we hosted our first annual SPS Tech Holiday Concert! Ten team members shared their …
: The Origin of Carol of the Bells Hark how the bells, sweet silver bells, all seem to say, throw cares away Christmas is here… …
: SPS's Tech Compute Guardrail When designing a software system one of the fundamental questions we need to answer is “where will …
: WiT Hosts Coded Bias Watch Party for Team SPS Tech The SPS WiT (Women in Technology) group provided the opportunity for our teams to have early access …
: Upgrading our Assortment Product to Java15 SPS Commerce’s Assortment product has recently undergone an effort to modernize our Java …
: Remote Hypercare Cyber Week is historically the most important week for TeamSPS, and during this time we give special …
: Boolean Blindness: Using domain modeling to make your code bug free December 3rd at 5:30PM ET our Software Engineering & Cloud Meetup is excited to have Michael …
: Dan Juckniess, Sales SVP , dropped into one of our team stand-ups today to provide his support and …
: I'm Here: Dennis Cunningham, Tech Trainer I’m here. I am here as a Black Gay man at SPS. I am here to support and encourage other People of …
: Our most recent Tech All Hands, presented as a live radio show, included a cameo from “DJ …
: Continuing our Mission for Diversity Beyond FIRST Robotics In fourth grade I helped start Green Girls Robotics, an all-girls FIRST Lego League team out of …
: My Journey to Technology My love for technology predates my time at SPS and ironically the dream of someday being a Software …
: Today our SPS teams pause and get a chance to come together as 1 TeamSPS at our Growth Summit to …
: A Year in the Life of a Service Team Having been a part of a service team for the last couple of years and being responsible for several …
: Taming the TAMM Since its introduction to the TECH teams about eighteen months ago, Team Agile Maturity Measurement …
: Tomorrow night! QuintessenceAnx, a Developer Advocate from Pager Duty is talking problem-solving, …
: Providing (Negative) Feedback Across Cultures Working on a team that is globally distributed is a great experience which also presents …
: Legacy Software in a SaaS Company For the last 15 years, I’ve been part of teams that either focus on or maintain legacy …
: Guilds to Learn, Share, Grow, and Sometimes Just for Fun Here at SPS Tech, we have various Guilds that have been formed by our team members. Guilds are a …
: Secrets of Tech: How to Interview Like a Badass Yesterday we reconnected with old friends and met some new ones at our event “Secrets of Tech: …
: I'm Here: Randi Myhre Hi, everyone! I’m Randi. I’m the acting HR Business Partner for Technology (my other job is in …
: We Will Puzzle Again Someday Like many companies, we are still predominantly in a Work from Home state, but SPS has put in many …
: Architectural Unit Testing I’m going to assume that you already buy into the advantages of unit testing your code and the …
: My Experiences on a FIRST Tech Challenge Robotics Team Today I realized that, at twenty years old, I have spent nearly half of my life in FIRST (For …
: Another shining star intern from our first ever virtual internship program, Shravya Gade, shared her …
: Good communication is intentional, and the rewards for putting in the work often outweigh the …
: Communicating Effectively Across Cultures Working on a team that is globally distributed is a great experience which also presents …
: Our very own Tim Van Cleave shares his experience being a CodeDay Labs mentor during the Coronavirus …
: I'm Here “I’m Here” is a new initiative that SPS Technology is launching to strengthen our culture, improve …
: Missing the quality coffee and conversation in the break room, but still finding ways to stay …
: Better ASP.NET Core Logging with Serilog If you have or plan on doing anything constructive with your log output from a default ASP.NET Core …
: How SPS Gave Me the Opportunity to Study Trees Grace Hansen was a returning summer intern who first joined SPS as an Aspirations in Computing …
: System Demos: An Architect’s Perspective Ah, it’s System Demo day, again. Get up early, handle the flurry of activity getting the kids ready, …
: The Benefits of Global Diversification SPS Commerce is headquartered in Minneapolis, MN and we have technology teams that span the globe in …
: SPS Partners with NDC Minnesota 2020 SPS Commerce is partnering with NDC Minnesota 2020. The online developers conference is offering …
: SPS is Headed to the Virtual Grace Hopper Celebration! I am so grateful that SPS Commerce believes in the future of Women in Technology, and is …
: The AWS DeepRacer Challenge SPS Tech Summit Challenge SPS Tech Summit and SPS Tech Jam are two tech events organized by SPS …
: Naming Things and How to Not The joke is that there are two hard problems in Computer Science, and the one that I find myself …
: Remote Work: so, I guess this is what we're doing now The post below was originally written in late March as we were initially beset by (not the first) …
: Reflections from an SPS Summer Engineering Intern SPS hosted 13 virtual interns over the summer, and we wanted to share their reflections as the …
: Dependency Management with Dependabot No matter what language or package manager, dependency management in most projects suffer from many …
: What Access Have You Been Given? I find myself reflecting more than usual, which I attribute to recent events: The continued local …
: SPS Desktop Engineering This past month, the SPS Desktop Engineering team started deploying a Cloud Management Gateway (CMG) …
: How Has Your Team Approached Remote Work? How has your team approached remote work? How have you approached remote work? I’d be curious …
: Container Optimization Wins We recently completed migrating some of our loader containers from Mesos to ECS. During this …
: Team Outings: Quarantine Version Who says you can’t have a team outing during quarantine / social isolation? I just had a great …
: Keep Sharing Your Experience I know that it might sound a bit pretentious but I believe that SPS values #know-more-to-be-more and …
: Dare to Disrupt: TechJam 2020 Dare to Disrupt was the theme this year for Tech Jam, the yearly conference organized by the SPS …
: AWS ALB Routing Algorithm Performance Certain AWS components (and cloud components in general) do amazing jobs at simplifying our lives as …
: 13 New Technology Interns! The SPS Commerce Technology Team has kicked off the third year of the summer internship program by …
: Official Launch of ART2 Last week ART2 officially launched, and to quote Curtis Hebbard-Langille, WE CRUSHED IT! We …
: New Office Space for #TeamSPS in Kyiv, Ukraine! Take a video tour of our amazing new office space for #TeamSPS in Kyiv, Ukraine!
: Welcome to the SPS Commerce Technology Team site. We will be using this site for #TeamSPS to share …