Listen to an interview with our CTO and architect discuss how we chose a new computer language.

This story begins someplace familiar to many startups: our monolithic API had become unwieldy, and we wanted to transition towards a microservice architecture. And, like other young, scrappy startups, we couldn’t afford to freeze development while we re-architected the entire system. So, instead, each time we wrote a feature we carved off the related chunk […]

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 […]

A few months ago Clever had the opportunity to give a talk to the GoSF Meetup group (the “largest Go meetup group in the world”!). Mohit and Alex discussed their experience creating Sphinx (our rate limiting service) and the usefulness of Go’s interfaces in doing so. Here are the slides: There are a few reasons […]