Artsy Engineering

Where to begin! Where to begin…
Lets start with a good measure of success, one that I think most engineers couldagree on: a from-scratch rebuild of a complex, internal tools app. Success withrebuilds is often fleeting, as many can attest. There’s risk involved. Extendingthe challenge...

Lately, I’ve been getting involved with some sketchy stuff. You know what I’mtalking about–data migrations.
I’ve been rolling out changes that have a significant risk of breaking ourproduction environment for mission-critical services. It’s been exciting work(keep your eyes out for more posts on the exact project, coming soon™️), butI’ve definitely caused...

At Artsy, we love TypeScript. We use it in most of our node/web/mobile repos.Today, I want to talk about a specific case we found while trying to make ourtypes more strict on palette-mobile,which is our Design System for React Native.
Check this out:
Like the comment says, even though we have two specific strings, the fact thatwe do a union with string, makes welp have a type of just string. This isbecause both "hello" and "world" are strings, and the union tends to go tothe type that includes the...

We recently got a report from one of our galleries in the Los Angeles area thatthey weren’t showing up on ourLos Angeles exhibition listings.
I fielded the report and right away confirmed: when we asked our core API for/shows?near=<los angeles coordinates>, sure enough this gallery partner didn’tmake the cut....