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We recently launched a new feature at Buffer, called Ideas. With Ideas, you can store all your best ideas, tweak them until they’re ready, and drop them straight into your Buffer queue. Now that Ideas has launched in our web and mobile apps, we have some time to share
Video: Automate Everything - From Review to Release [Bufferdevs Snackchat] - Overflow Buffer
At Buffer we regularly hold what we call ‘Snackchats’. These are short & informal presentations of something that we want to share with our team which help to build on our engineering culture and help each other to grow as engineers. Anyone on the team has the opportunity to give these
Announcing The Buffer Overflow Podcast - Overflow Buffer
Today we’re happy to announce our new engineering podcast, The Buffer Overflow Podcast. And, our first episode is now available for streaming! How to Listen The Buffer Overflow Podcast is now available on all major platforms today, so if you open your podcast player of choice and search for
Video: Getting started with Go [Bufferdevs Snackchat] - Overflow Buffer
At Buffer we regularly hold what we call ‘Snackchats’. These are short & informal presentations of something that we want to share with our team which help to build on our engineering culture and help each other to grow as engineers. Anyone on the team has the opportunity to give these
Getting Buffer Publish ready for Android 10 - Overflow Buffer
Android 10 is officially here! On 3rd September it began rolling out for pixel devices, so we wanted to be sure that our app was ready to serve our users who would have Android 10 installed on their device. When these OS updates come around, as developers we sometimes don’
Effective Communication on Technical Topics - Overflow Buffer
Photo by Nik MacMillan from Unsplash [https://unsplash.com/@nikarthur]. At Buffer we’ve always been interested in how to communicate in concise and clear ways. In fact, it’s been part of our company values from the beginning. Every organization values communication, and I’d submit to you that
Migrating our component library to the Material Button - Overflow Buffer
Header Photo byPearse O’Halloran [https://unsplash.com/@pearseoh?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText] onUnsplash [https://unsplash.com/s/photos/button?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText] For our Android clients we have a small component library [https://github.com/bufferapp/android-components] which
Tainting and Labeling Kubernetes Nodes to Run Special Workload — A quick guide that is finally NOT confusing - Overflow Buffer
All right folks, I intend to keep this one short and that’s what I will do. I mean, it’s supposed to be easy but the official documentation(1 [https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/configuration/taint-and-toleration/], 2 [https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/configure-pod-container/assign-pods-nodes/#add-a-label-to-a-node] ) makes it unnecessarily confusing.
How to Set Kubernetes Resource Requests and Limits - A Saga to Improve Cluster Stability and Efficiency - Overflow Buffer
A mystery So, it all started on September 1st, right after our cluster upgrade from 1.11 to 1.12. Almost on the next day, we began to see alerts on kubelet reported by Datadog. On some days we would get a few (3 – 5) of them, other days we
Library module navigation in Android Applications - Overflow Buffer
Header Photo byAlexander Andrews [https://unsplash.com/@alex_andrews?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText] onUnsplash [https://unsplash.com/search/photos/navigation?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText] When it comes to building android applications, there’s no doubt that we’ll need to
Selectively running Android modularized unit tests on your CI server - Overflow Buffer
Header Photo by Icons8 Team [https://unsplash.com/@icons8?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText] on Unsplash [https://unsplash.com/s/photos/time?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Modularizing your Android projects can bring a number of different advantages to your team.
Digging into failed redirects within Android Webviews - Overflow Buffer
Header Photo byThe Nigmatic [https://unsplash.com/photos/ssMYmNDdPtI?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText] onUnsplash [https://unsplash.com/search/photos/bug?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText] Discovering the issue It was the 14th December and we were winding down ready for the
Creating a custom video SeekBar on Android - Overflow Buffer
Header Photo by Jakob Owens on Unsplash -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A new feature we’ve been building out required the use of a thumbnail picker for video files. After looking around for open-source implementations, it was clear that there wasn’t something that already existed which would fit in with our app
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At Buffer, we’re constantly experimenting with ways we can improve our products and try out new ideas. We recently launched Start Page [https://buffer.com/start-page], a beautiful, flexible, mobile-friendly landing page that you can build in minutes and update in seconds. As a Software Engineer on Buffer’s