How we ship code, delight customers, and build a team where engineers flourish. The Overflow blog covers all the latest work and learnings from Buffer’s engineering team.

How We're Preventing Breaking Changes in GraphQL APIs at Buffer — and Why It's Essential for Our Customers

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As part of our commitment to transparency and building in public, Buffer engineer Joe Birch shares how we’re doing this for our own GraphQL API via the use of GitHub Actions.

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Highlighting Text Input with Jetpack Compose

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Secure Access To Opensearch on AWS

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With the surprising swap of Elasticsearch with Opensearch on AWS. Learn how the team at Buffer achieved secure access without AWS credentials.

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Load Fonts Fast

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Migrating our component library to the Material Button

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Selectively running Android modularized unit tests on your CI server

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Tainting and Labeling Kubernetes Nodes to Run Special Workload — A quick guide that is finally NOT confusing

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How to Set Kubernetes Resource Requests and Limits - A Saga to Improve Cluster Stability and Efficiency

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Announcing The Buffer Overflow Podcast

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Getting Buffer Publish ready for Android 10

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Library module navigation in Android Applications

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Video: Getting started with Go [Bufferdevs Snackchat]

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Creating a custom video SeekBar on Android

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Video: Automate Everything – From Review to Release [Bufferdevs Snackchat]

Workplace of the future

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Effective Communication on Technical Topics

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Digging into failed redirects within Android Webviews

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Using Live Templates to Write Tests

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Getting started with feature modularization in Android Apps

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Fully Automated Continuous Deployment on Android with Bitrise

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Keeping check on your Android Libraries with Danger & Bitrise

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A brief look at Koin on Android

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Announce Your Actions: Making gesture actions accessible

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Exposing Notification Settings to the Android System

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Churn Prediction: First Contact

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