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Incident response at global scale

Incident response at global scale

If you were trying to get shit done on your expense reports around 3:30am UTC on June 16th, you would’ve noticed we had a site outage. Here are the details of our Incident Response to enhance our own learnings and behaviors for next time, and spread that knowledge with our community.

Expensify’s mastery of autonomous work: a culture of trust and empowerment

Expensify’s mastery of autonomous work: a culture of trust and empowerment

Since 2011, Expensify’s unique and autonomous work culture has made our company a model for remote work. Our commitment to providing employees with the freedom to manage their own schedules and workloads has resulted in a reputation for innovation, creativity, and collaboration.

Scaling SQLite to 4M QPS on a single server (EC2 vs Bare Metal)

Scaling SQLite to 4M QPS on a single server (EC2 vs Bare Metal)

Expensify has an unusual technology stack in many ways.  But most surprising of all is that we don't use MySQL or Postgres — instead using none other than SQLite — and it works great.

Building the best expense report

Building the best expense report

Each May marks the anniversary of Expensify. In May 2008, David Barrett got the idea of a world where expenses reports don't have to suck. Learn more in this blog post.

We’ve added corporate card reconciliation for more banks!

We’ve added corporate card reconciliation for more banks!

Last month we announced Amex Corporate Card Reconciliation and received a huge enthusiastic response from our users. Due to the popularity of the feature and user demand, we have expanded Corporate Card Reconciliation to many more major banks.

CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire .NET programmers

CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire .NET programmers

As you might know, we're hiring the best programmers in the world.  Read this article to learn why we don’t hire .NET programers.

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