In my experience working on various Agile teams, the most productive and most well-functioning teams share many common traits.

As an engineer, the workflow and deployment process is something that can often be seen as tedious and bothersome.

For the past 8 months, I’ve been working on The Knot Pro app, which was built using React Native (a framework that lets you write an app once but run it natively on both iOS and Android).

Our React Native app started as a project for one of our company hackathons.

The “Search By Name” feature on this page hits an API endpoint that queries Elasticsearch with a partial name and responds with the names of the matching customers.

For over six months now, XO in Austin has been sponsoring and organizing a developer focused meetup called ‘Fullstack Forum ATX’.

At XO, we use NGINX extensively and to great effect across our stack.

At XO, we throw a biannual hackathon. It’s a company-wide, two-day event where co workers cross team and even state lines get together to design, prototype, and hack a solution together.

At XO Group, we primarily work with Node and Ruby to build out our system of interconnected services.

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