Matt Merrill

Marketing Analytics with AWS and Power BI

We recently completed a project with one of the largest affiliate marketing consulting firms in the US. We asked one of the lead consultants on the project, Jason Lombardo, to answer a few questions about modern data architecture.

How to effectively scale teams

"How can we move faster?" This is perhaps the number one question we hear from the CTOs we work with. Regardless of team size, industry or maturity, we consistently see teams struggle to effectively scale. In a few extreme scenarios we have also heard "I am spending more on software, yet, somehow, we're actually seeing less software get released. How the hell is this happening?" Here are some symptoms of a team that is struggling with growth: * Problems organizing work - Entire teams are stuc

So you're thinking about hiring a software agency...

You've got a great idea for a product, or app, or service, and you need to make some software for it. If you're thinking of bringing on a software agency, here's our guide for what you can expect from the process of hiring one.

Introducing Web Blueprint - Our Practices for Web Development

Learn more about our Github project called web-blueprint that documents our practices and opinions on web development.

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A Journey Moving the Monolith to Microservices

It was mission impossible. A client wanted to use Microservices not to scale their current app, but to accelerate the speed of development. Our challenge was to keep things as simple as possible in a Microservices architecture.

Rocket's First Podcast: Ship It.

We're super excited to announce that Rocket Insight's first podcast has dropped: The Ship It Podcast! (aka shipit.io [http://shipit.io]) On Ship It we'll talk with software developers who write software in and for the real world. Rocket has over a hundred developers in countries around the world, writing software for amazing companies. We have some great stories, ideas and mishaps to share. Being able share them with our real voices, recorded together in a room lets our unique, quirky, and occ

The Golden Rule of Hiring: Candidate Experience

We get really good feedback on our developer interviews, and we're super proud of that. Finding great engineers is how we keep Rocket awesome. A few years ago, we wrote about How We Hire Developers [https://blog.rocketinsights.com/hiring-developers/]. We still follow most of those practices today, and three years later, they are responsible for how we have grown Rocket's engineering team from a handful of great developers, to just under sixty great developers in multiple countries. But somethi

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