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Microservices: From REST to Thrift and GraphQL
Microservices architecture is very popular these days, and is coming into increasing use at Credit Karma. While there are many reasons to develop microservices, their use comes with a number of...
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Fraud protection at scale
At Credit Karma, we want our members to make financial progress — and we believe that the security of our members’ personal, financial and tax information is the cornerstone of that mission. This is...
View ArticleEffectively attending a tech conference
The word “conference” brings back fond memories. As a child I went to many of them, thanks to my dad. He’d attend atomic and molecular physics conferences across India and around the world quite...
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Embedded Web Apps at Credit Karma
The good things on the front end: EWAs Credit Karma’s cornerstone mission is to champion financial progress for all. From an engineering perspective, this means ensuring a seamless experience from...
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Identity-Aware Encryption
As architectures become more complex, hackers become more sophisticated and security becomes more important — and so data protection must evolve to meet the challenge. In the beginning, it may have...
View ArticleChecking Your Bias as a Leader
Introduction These past few weeks we’ve seen the Black Lives Matter movement create incredible energy and action around long-standing issues in American society. During this time, I have been...
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Getting Started with GCP Identity Management
Building products and services using Google Cloud Platform (GCP) has been a big ingredient in Credit Karma’s hyper growth. GCP’s PaaS and SaaS offerings allow teams and individuals to focus on their...
View ArticleA Framework for Interrupting Bias – Within Oneself, With Another, and Amongst...
. “Movements don’t emerge because everyone suddenly decides to face the same direction at once…they rely on social patterns that begin as the habit of friendship, grow through the habits of...
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Optimizing CircleCI
While it is always important to think about time and cost efficiency, some issues are only noticeable with scale and increased complexity. Build systems like CircleCI offer many configurations but...
View ArticleKarmahack 2021 Recap: What Makes a Good Hackathon?
In 2017, Credit Karma launched Karmahack, its first-ever hackathon. The event brought together more than 100 employees from across the business to develop the most compelling product concept within 72...
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