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Introducing Our New Operating System
Last week we unveiled our new brokerage and banking platform, Wealthfront’s largest engineering undertaking to date. This investment in our infrastructure will serve as the foundation for our next generation of products and services, supporting our mission to make sophisticated private wealth management services available to everyone. When Legacy Holds You Back Wealthfront, like many… Read more
Integrating D3 into React
D3 and React are both incredibly popular. Unfortunately, if you try to integrate D3 into a React application, you’ll hit some snags due to differences in how they each manipulate the DOM. I’ll discuss the problem, the existing ways the community has tackled it, and the approach Wealthfront took. Note that the choice we made… Read more
A specific trick and a general habit for achieving fast computations
I recently worked on a computation involved in a client-facing projection graph. In order to delight our users, we wanted it to respond instantly to user interaction. However, there are two forces at play that make the calculation complicated: the consistent contributions of recurring deposits and the erratic motion of stock prices. We needed to… Read more
Reflective Metatesting. Protecting You from Yourself and Everybody Else.
Infrastructure projects often take user-defined configuration classes as input. I’ve worked on several during my tenure at Wealthfront. You cannot trust the validity of these configurations, even if you wrote them yourself. A pattern I’ve grown to love is writing JUnit tests that use reflection to gather all the input classes to run a suite… Read more
Handling unhandledrejections in Node and the Browser
As a financial product, Wealthfront runs on trust. Our clients expect the product to be there for them and work as they expect. Engineering at Wealthfront makes writing high quality tests a priority. For our clients to trust our product and brand, we must ensure we have that same confidence in our tests. We recently… Read more
Checkstyle at Wealthfront
At Wealthfront we use Checkstyle to enforce some coding standards, also to detect bad practice at the early stage. In this blog post, we will describe how to configure Checkstyle and how to customize that for our needs. How to configure Checkstyle? There are three components working together to automate all these checks: checkstyle: the tool… Read more