How We Re-Architected Our Integration Docs to Speak Fluent Coding Agent
A breakdown of the architecture of Forter's AI Coding Kit — the engineering that makes integration docs work with cod...
Leading Bold Migrations: How We’re Transforming Platform Engineering at Forter
Let’s be honest—migrations are not the most glamorous part of engineering. They’re often messy, time-consuming, and r...
Lightning Fast JVM Set Operations ⚡
Using bitwise operations for set intersection, we managed to decrease the latency of a core Kotlin service by nearly ...
How we saved millions on AWS - Part 3
How we saved millions on AWS and lived to tell the tale. Part 3 - Making a Cultural Shift.
How we saved millions on AWS - Part 2
How we saved millions on AWS and lived to tell the tale. Part 2 - Cost Saving Initiatives: the specific strategies th...
How we saved millions on AWS - Part 1
How we saved millions on AWS and lived to tell the tale. Part 1 - Building a Cloud Strategy: transitioning cloud cost...
Competitive Game Day
Imagine your ideal on-call day. Do you imagine nothing but a few minor events, each with a detailed dashboard or step...
Reducing K/V costs by “key packing”
‘Key packing’ in Aerospike cut our data migration costs significantly.
10 Design Insights: Overcoming GPT-4 Limitations with Agentic Workflows
This demo explores Generative AI Agents by solving the classic river crossing puzzle.
The River of Bytes
How we cut costs of services down by 95% which amounts to hundreds of thousands of dollars in annual savings.
Embrace Silence
Silence in group settings can be a good thing, encouraging team participation and fostering independence from the lea...
Forter Engineering On-Call Strategy
Solving inherent on-call problems is greatly more important (and urgent) than making alerts’ UX better, e.g. have a p...
Mindful Vendor Assessment – Counteracting Cognitive Bias When Choosing Third-Party Solutions
As software engineers, we are tasked daily with choosing third-party libraries, tools, and services to integrate into...
Reflecting on Okta’s Breach
No one should expect services to be perfect. Bugs happen, and they get exploited. Employees make mistakes, accept bri...
Apache Beam — From Zero to Hero Pt. 2: Streaming Pipelines
In this post we’re going to implement a Streaming Pipeline while covering the rest of Apache Beam’s basic concepts. L...
Apache Beam — From Zero to Hero Pt. 1: Batch Pipelines
In the previous post I talked about how we can use Python Generators to create simple data pipelines. In this post I ...
Best Practices for Production Grade Scheduled Jobs
At Forter we develop an online, low latency fraud prevention service. We started out with a single real time system, ...
How we wrote a crash-free mobile SDK
Recorded during September 2019 iOS Developers MeetUp. Organized by Chegg, hosted @ Forter's offices in TLV.
Real Time Streaming using Kotlin Coroutines
Join us on a journey from n00b to h4x0r in Kotlin Coroutine programming. We'll use real-life production code examples...
0FLAKE – Reaching Reliable Non-Flaky Tests
Tests provide confidence. They provide confidence during development, in new deployments, and continuously in product...
Do You Trust Your Front-End Tests As Much as We Do?
Consider the following scenario: A critical bug has been detected on your web application overnight and a fix must be...
Cross Region Data Replication
Different requirements (high availability, data residency) and high level designs for aws cross region data replicati...
Walkthrough: Tracking an Elasticsearch Java Client Sniffer Bug
Elasticsearch has always been good to us at Forter. It’s truly reliable. It’s damn good at searching, and it’s a soli...
Can We Agree on Dependency and Version Management?
Get your team engaged in a heated debate about an opinionated subject
Selfconf: Empowering Group Learning for Software Engineers
Did you ever attend a talk – in a conference, a local meetup or simply listening to an interesting podcast on your co...
Security 101 for SaaS Startups
So you are working at a startup, and you have been wondering at what point should you start looking into security con...
THE EVOLUTION OF WEB DATA BINDING
Have you ever talked passionately about data binding concepts with a backend engineer? I have, and most of the time t...
9.5 Low Latency Decision as a Service Design Patterns
A few hundred milliseconds latency is achievable for a complex fraud prevention system, but with very little wiggle r...
23 Percent of Software Developers Are Addicts
If you haven’t seen the Software Architecture Addict website.
Monitoring With Riemann
At Forter our business is all about streaming. We’re utilizing Apache Storm for multiple streaming use cases that req...
Monitoring With Riemann
Riemann is a powerful tool for monitoring freaks, lets you aggregate and process all of your application monitoring d...
What Happens When an Engineer Tries To Explain Why You Should Work With Him?
Our beloved Itai Frenkel knows how to talk the talk, and walk the walk. Last time, he shared some of the dilemmas we ...
HR&D - How to Buy A Gift For a Software Engineer
Last year I wrote why I believe engineers should stop outsourcing their emotions at work (hence the *HR + R&D title),...
Comparing Message Queue Architecture on AWS
In Forter, we crunch multiple data streams each with its own different requirements. In order to choose the right too...