Data for all at #sql-help

February 26, 2016

We love Slack. We use it for everything from inside jokes to product discussions to automated alerting and more. Of the dozens of channels, my favorite is our #sql-help channel. We…

The Farmer and the Cowman Should be Friends: Benefits of Cross-Functional Teams

January 14, 2016

You’ve probably seen this image before: This famous cartoon illustrates a classic problem at business organizations:  Everyone has a different idea of what the product/project is.  As organizations grow, functional…

Scenes from a Hackathon

December 28, 2015

Here are some (slightly belated) photos from Jana’s Q4 2015 Hackathon! For this quarter’s theme, we’ll added “Moments of Delight” to mCent.  No Hackathon Hangovers allowed!  Everything we build on Hackathon day must be done…

Tips for Managing Porting Projects

November 04, 2015

Despite our best intentions, sometimes existing architecture won’t scale to meet the needs of a rapidly growing business.  We recently ported our analytics pipeline to a new database, and learning…

Bleep Bloop: Building Bots using Iterative Design

October 20, 2015

Like lots of products, mCent asks our users to refer friends. But how much is a referral worth?  How should that amount vary in changing business conditions? To answer these…