Scaling and improving at Sqreen: a frontend team retrospective
Thibaud
At Sqreen, our company has evolved and changed a lot since we began this journey. Our frontend team is no exception, and as a member of that team, I wanted…
Your Company Was Just Breached. Now What?
Eric
So, your company has suffered a security breach, and your team didn’t have a data breach plan in place to handle it. That’s bad news, but take a deep breath.…
How do you solve a problem like overcrowded company calendars? With a company dashboard!
FX
Why I built a company dashboard from scratch At Sqreen, we have an initiative called “Sqreenities.” A Sqreenity is basically a week where you step away from your normal day-to-day…
Introducing twofa – a Touch ID-aware 2FA client for macOS
Janis
Recently, I put some time aside to write a two-factor authentication app for macOS for personal use. A nice perk of working at Sqreen is what we call the “Sqreenity”…
Getting security to scale: learnings from modern app sec teams
Jb
Why are we writing this? In April, I visited the Bay Area from Paris for a week with some members of my team. While we were there, we sat down…
How SaaS CTOs can improve their company’s security
Josh
For many SaaS startups, security takes a backseat to other needs and functions in the early stages of the company. This approach often makes sense (you have to have working…
Security leader interview: Adam Surak on approaching security at Algolia
Today, we have a new entry in our security leader interview series. Recently, we sat down with Adam Surak, Director of Infrastructure and Security at Algolia, to discuss his approach…
How we built V8 natively on ARM
Émile-Hugo
When Amazon released their custom Graviton processor, we knew that ARM needed to be on our radar. Although clearly a first generation product, the investment required to build such a…
Building a dynamic instrumentation agent for PHP
TL;DR PHP instrumentation can be handled in many ways. When we built our PHP agent at Sqreen we made a series of architectural decisions that enabled us to maximize performance,…
How to debug memory leaks in a Node.js application on Heroku
Vladimir
Debugging memory leaks is rarely a piece of cake, especially when they only happen in production. The best way I’ve found to debug memory leaks in a Node.js application on…