Clever Engineering Blog — Always a Student

Nathan Leiby

How we handle multi-region sessions at Clever

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Why multi-region sessions? Each year leading up to Back to School (our busiest season), Clever’s engineering team invests in our highest traffic systems to make sure we can handle user growth and new traffic patterns. During 2020–2021, SAML auth at Clever grew from <10% of our login related traffic to about 40% of our traffic! For this […]

Mo Repos, Mo Problems? How We Make Changes Across Many Git Repositories

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tl;dr: Try out microplane! It’s a CLI tool to make changes across many repos. The Problem At Clever, we’ve embraced microservices. They promote modularity, which leads to simpler code bases and lets our engineers move quickly and independently. They are easier to deploy, which helps us build towards incremental, frequent deploys and continuous delivery. In […]