Jun 29, 2021DevOps to SRE: Making the Desired Culture a RealityOver the past year at FullContact, the DevOps team has transitioned into an SRE team, and we couldn’t be happier. Our DevOps team functioned like many other DevOps teams and matched well with a sentiment I hear from fellow attendees at every DevOps-oriented conference I’ve attended, from DevOps Days to…Engineering4 min readEngineering4 min read
May 5, 2021Cost Savings and Saving Our BaconOne of the benefits of cloud computing is the ease with which engineers can spin up infrastructure and achieve business goals rapidly. It’s also one of the shortcomings, especially when cloud providers make pricing confusing to understand as your start to use more and more services. The ability to spin…Cost Savings8 min readCost Savings8 min read
Mar 31, 2021Resolve: Transition to ScyllaDBIn 2020, FullContact launched our Resolve product, backed by Cassandra. Initially, we were super eager to move from our historical database HBase to Cassandra with its promises for scalability, high availability, and low latency on commodity hardware. However, we were never able to run our internal workloads as fast as…Cassandra9 min readCassandra9 min read
Mar 11, 2021(Re)Driving the DatabusIn this blog, we’ll explore the backend processes and architecture that power Resolve while discussing some challenges we faced along the way. When designing FullContact’s newest product, Resolve, we borrowed several concepts from our Enrich platform and adapted them to support key differences between the two products. Our existing enrichment…Engineering9 min readEngineering9 min read
Nov 20, 2020What’s in a Name: How We Overcame the Challenges of Matching Names and Addresses — FullContactIdentity Resolution is core to everything FullContact does. For the Identity Resolution team, that means translating contact fragments from multiple sources into a unique identifier for a person. Customers may also have various contact information for their customers including names, addresses, emails, phone numbers, and more. …Identity7 min readIdentity7 min read
Oct 8, 2020Building a Lambda Architecture with Druid and Kafka Streams — FullContactAt FullContact, engineers have the opportunity to solve the unique and challenging problems created by a growing Identity Resolution Business. The start to any good solution is researching the tools your team is familiar with, along with the vast array of solutions out in the open-source world. …Druid8 min readDruid8 min read
Sep 11, 2020Code is Data, Data is Code: Rewriting API Documentation with Markdown and ClojureScriptWe recently decided to explore rewriting the FullContact API documentation. One of the primary goals of this project was to see if we could accomplish this using our existing component library, which would allow us to incorporate any kind of functionality we want beyond the standard, static HTML documentation we…Clojurescript5 min readClojurescript5 min read
May 29, 2020Resolve: Building the Identity Resolution Engine (Part 4) — FullContactThe following is the fourth and final installment of a multi-part series offering a glimpse of the behind-the-scenes advancements we achieved to deliver our Resolve API. The first post covered the origin of our Identity Graph and Resolve API. In the second post, we delved into the power of our…Identity5 min readIdentity5 min read
May 22, 2020Resolve: Building the Identity Resolution Engine (Part 3)The following is the third installment of a multi-part series offering a glimpse of the behind-the-scenes advancements we achieved to deliver our Resolve API. …Identity3 min readIdentity3 min read
May 15, 2020Resolve: Building the Identity Resolution Engine (Part 2)The following is the second installment of a multi-part series offering a glimpse of the behind-the-scenes advancements we achieved to deliver our Resolve API. You can find the first post, covering the origin of our Identity Graph and Resolve API, here. Part 2: It’s a Party, BYOID! To support the customization on the graph for each…API2 min readAPI2 min read
