WorkMarket Engineering

Rotating RDS SSL Certificates Without Downtime

The challenge

If you are working at one of the many lucky companies that are using RDS databases on AWS, you should be more than familiar with the following email subject from AWS “Update Your Amazon RDS SSL/TLS…

Here’s Why You Should Attend Next Year’s Grace Hopper Celebration

Celebrating One Year Since ADP Acquisition of WorkMarket

On Being a Product Manager, Technically Speaking

Imagine a product management utopia. No story pointing, no deadlines, no triage. In this world, a product manager is able to simply and purely communicate the business value he or she needs to engineers uninhibited by the limitations of…

Highlights from ReactConf 2018

I’ve been reflecting on React Conf 2018 and what it had to offer the tech community. If you didn’t go to…

How to Migrate to MySQL RDS Without Downtime

As Amazon Cloud gains more popularity, many companies are looking to migrate their…

Creating a Diversity and Inclusion Group From the Ground up: A Step-By-Step Guide

93% of engineers are…

Co-op Experience at WorkMarket

As a Computer Engineering student at the University of Waterloo I spend every other term of my undergraduate degree working as a co-op student at various companies. For my first co-op work term I was offered a job at WorkMarket. I didn’t know what to expect, so was…

Kafka Connect and Confluent: Modernizing our Data Pipelines and ETL for Microservices

At WorkMarket, like many other growth-stage startups, we’re in the midst of a transition from a monolithic architecture to a microservices architecture.