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General Web Things to Keep in Mind When Integrating a Map Feature to a Web App

Lessons for developing a fast, flexible, and scalable map feature on web

Ying-Chun Wang

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General

Four Challenges When Launching a Product Partnership

From a product engineering perspective, external partnerships can be tricky. Here are four best practices to follow.

Scaling DoorDash’s Geospatial Innovation with a Location-Based Delivery Simulator

Learn how we built a discrete event simulator for location data tests

Scaling Splunk Securely by Building a Custom Terraform Provider

Ensure your growing team can search, analyze, and visualize data securely by integrating Splunk with a custom built Terraform provider.

How DoorDash is Scaling its Merchant Engineering Teams to Meet New Challenges

Learn how the DoorDash merchant team has scaled up to support merchants during the Covid-19 crisis

Interview with Rajat Shroff – VP of Product at DoorDash

Learn more about the product design team at DoorDash

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Culture General

Design Leadership Interview with Tae Kim

Learn more about what it means to be a product designer at DoorDash

Product Leadership Interview with Kevin Fu

Learn about the DoorDash product organization: their mission goals and culture

Design Leadership Interview with Radhika Bhalla

Learn what its like to be a UX researcher at DoorDash from our head of UX, Radhika Bhalla

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Culture General

Design Leadership Interview with Will DiMondi

Learn more about the design team at DoorDash

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Culture General

Becoming a Leader as a First-Generation Immigrant

Although we’re living in an era in which many companies advocate for diversity and inclusion, I am often still the only female director in the room in the tech industry. Even more often, I find myself to be the only first-generation immigrant who learned English as a second language. This is interesting given almost 27% of the ...

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“Designing” a Career Ladder for Product Design

Learn more about the design team at DoorDash

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Backend General

Enforce Timeout: A DoorDash Reliability Methodology

“What would happen if we removed statement timeouts in our Postgresql databases?” That’s one of the questions asked in a management meeting. At the time I only responded that it would be bad — it would cause problems and make it harder to debug. However, I realize now that this is a topic that many people don’t ...