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Web Five Challenges to Building an Isomorphic JavaScript Library

Building isomorphic JavaScript libraries make it easy to build on the client and server side but have some challenges to work through first

Nick Fahrenkrog

11 Minute Read

Web

DoorDash’s Lessons on Improving Performance on High-Traffic Web Pages

As e-commerce platforms grow, their web applications begin to slow and performance-boosting techniques are required to maintain their speed and functionality.

Paipo Tang

David Nguyen 15 Minute Read

Web

Building a Common Web Library for Fast Implementations of Risk Frictions

To quickly implement new fraud prevention "frictions" we built a common library with React.js Typescript and Apollo graph. Read the guide

Sri Venkatesh Sankaran 10 Minute Read

Web

Improving Web Page Performance at DoorDash Through Server-Side Rendering with Next.JS

Displaying enticing product images with fast load speeds on high-traffic pages can be a hard. Learn how we implemented server side rendering with next.js

Patrick El-Hage

Duncan Meech 16 Minute Read

Web

Building a Marketing Engineering Platform using Next.js, Cloudflare, and Contentful

Learn how we built a multi-tenant website platform with internationalization, analytics, shared components, and more...

Harry Dehal

Josh Santomieri 13 Minute Read

Backend Web

Building a Unified Chat Experience at DoorDash

Learn how we unified our chat across all our platforms by leveraging common UI components and an extensible backend and automated it with NLP

Dan Behar 8 Minute Read

Backend Web

Leveraging the Pipeline Design Pattern to Modularize Recommendation Services

Learn how DoorDash engineers used a pipeline design pattern to make our recommendation page more efficient and flexible.

JoshZhu 9 Minute Read

Backend Mobile Web

Overcoming Localization Challenges for International Expansions

DoorDash defined four key challenges to getting its platform ready for an international launch.

Noah Zempsky

Ethan Myers

Siddhartha Kakarla

Winston Zhao

Bryan Huang

Xilin Liu 18 Minute Read

Mobile Web

Building Chat Into the DoorDash App to Improve Deliveries

Learn how we overcame the technical challenges of implementing chat quickly and efficiently for all our Dasher and consumer applications.

Marina Mukhina 9 Minute Read

Backend Web

Rebuilding and Migrating a Session Management System with Zero Downtime

Migrating DoorDash's business-critical session management system in a disruption-free manner required careful planning and monitoring.

Sin Ko

Li Pei 18 Minute Read

Web

Managing React State on DoorDash’s Item Modal Using the Class Pattern

Learn how DoorDash created the Class Pattern when building the Item Modal in its web application to increase reliability.

Winston Zhao 33 Minute Read

Backend Web

Serving Multiple Websites and Business Logic From a Single Platform

Building flexibility into the DoorDash platform lets us scale to serve a variety of retailers.

Daniel Shafer 7 Minute Read

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2020 Hindsight: Building Reliability and Innovating at DoorDash

DoorDash recaps a number of its engineering highlights from 2020, including its microservices architecture, data platform, and new frontend development.

WayneCunningham 8 Minute Read