Our CEO Andy Rachleff talks about VC, entrepreneurship and Wealthfront at Dec 8th 7pm in SF Stanford Alum Club
Check out Andy Rachleff, our awesome CEO, who will speak at the Stanford SF Alum Club tomorrow night. He’s going to talk about entrepreneurship from three perspectives, developed through his career as a long-term venture capitalist at Benchmark Capital funding technology start-ups, as a lecturer teaching entrepreneurship at Stanford Business School, and as the CEO… Read more
Beyond Java’s Access Control: the Visibility Test
It is generally a good practice to use the most restrictive access level that makes sense. However, Java’s access control is not always as expressive as one would want. In this blog post, I am going to give two examples where an access level must be artificially relaxed. Then, I’ll describe Wealthfront’s recently open sourced… Read more
Interesting Reads
We’re going to try something new, a roundup of interesting links that are being passed around by Wealthfront Engineers. A brief history of digital typefaces Language / Library / VM co-evolution in Java SE 8 by Brian Goetz A javascript type inference engine Alan Kay on complexity in software and how biology might help us,… Read more
Deploying With a Phone Call: Speech Recognition in a Java backend
We had a lot of fun playing with last week’s experiment. However, it became quickly obvious that clicking on a button next to the service you want to deploy is much more convenient than talking to your web browser. Could we take the experiment further and build something that’s actually useful? Well, we all knew… Read more
Siri for Continuous Deployment
It’s late on Friday afternoon, we’ve just finished an important marketing release (not a deployment which happen about 50 times a day) and playing with Siri ignited an interest in making our Deployment Manager respond to voice commands. Luckily x-webkit-speech makes that easy. Obviously the big demo here was going to be deploying services based… Read more
Happy Birthday, Wealthfront!
A year ago we rang the bell at the NASDAQ in Times Square and invited you to join us in a new way to invest your money. We’ve been pretty quiet lately while we’re working on the next thing we know you’ll love. Stay tuned in the coming weeks as we start to give you… Read more