Microservices architecture is very popular these days, and is coming into increasing use at Credit Karma. While there are many reasons to develop microservices, their use comes with a number of potential pitfalls. This article describes a couple of those drawbacks and what we’re doing about them. Our first microservices presented REST APIs. REST provides […]
When I started at Credit Karma, it was my first internship outside of Toronto. As a Computer Science student at the University of Waterloo, I have the opportunity to complete six internships; Credit Karma has been my third. So having done this two times before I had learned one very important thing: what you get […]
Summer started, class was over, and I had begun a 10-week journey with Credit Karma. Intern life was great: there’s free food, a foosball table, the sights and sounds of the city. However, the main point of an internship is to solve a problem, and in order to solve problems, you need to know how […]
Working at a fast growing company while tackling high visibility, cross-functional projects can be challenging to navigate as an engineer. Teams easily become siloed. Knowledge and expertise can be slow to spread among many groups. The rapid growth and blurring of interactions between tools and services drive us to collaborate more so we can innovate […]
At Credit Karma, we’re constantly looking for new ways to provide timely, personalized financial assistance to our members: we help them correct credit report inaccuracies, find the best interest rate on a loan, and even help them file their taxes for free. This vision to become the best personal financial assistant drove us to build […]
Finagle and the move to microservices When serving 60 million members (and counting), there come some interesting scaling challenges. At Credit Karma, we are constantly facing and addressing those challenges to provide our ever-growing member base with a great user experience. As a part of this, we are currently on a path to evolve our […]
