Topic: Lessons Learned

Building a Great Developer Experience with SDKs

Investing in Software Developer Kits (SDKs) It’s early in 2015 and if you’ve ever worked in Product Management you know what that means: we are starting to execute our big, audacious 2015 product plans. In our Q4 planning cycle we looked at everything we could possibly do and tried to prioritize for the next year. […]

Supporting Mixed Mode Services in an API

A new contact management system In 2013, Constant Contact started to roll out our next generation of contact management features.  This new generation of CRM was not just some additional functionality – we moved to a new hardware architecture, a new software technology stack and a modern UI design to improve usability.  All in all, […]

API Performance Testing, Part 1

Is there such a thing as too fast when it comes to API performance testing? Unless you’re trying to play a game engineered around a busy loop sized for a 286, probably not. We always want to get more done in less time. That’s why the Constant Contact Web Services team is charged with building […]

The Next Generation of Small Business Software Developers Won’t Need a Sales Team

The following is a guest post from Alan Wells, co-founder and product designer at Glyder, a 500 Startups-backed company that gives small businesses the content and metrics they need to be effective online marketers. He’s been designing mobile and social software since 2007, including roles at Affinity Labs (acquired by Monster.com), Zynga, and a design […]