Introduction It has become common to hear companies say “we are data-driven” or “we deliver solutions backed by data.” On a resume, candidates often list that they “perform data analytics” in their role. That all sounds really great and professional, but what do these phrases actually mean? My name is…
Integrations have become a new norm in a world of never-ending technological advancements. Products are spinning up left and right to solve real problems, many of which leverage integrations to connect with the rest of the user experience. This is no different than what we face here at Lucid as…
During the summer of 2020 we weren’t just building Lucidspark, we were also in the early stages of establishing our design system. We’d built the basics: Component library in Figma? Check. Code components? Check. Basic visualization for the code components? Check. We had a healthy grassroots culture growing around the…
You’ve just checked your corporate Gmail inbox, and there’s an email from someone you don’t recognize. You open it, and it seems…off. You take a screenshot (or better yet, download the email) and send it to your security team. Hopefully, they will be able to tell you whether or not…
Android has supported autoBackup for apps by default since Android 6, enabling users to backup app data automatically to Google Drive. Configuration for this backup could be added with backup rules, or it could be turned off entirely with autoBackup=false. This also allowed apps to configure device-to-device transfer (D2D transfer),…
For years, our Quality Assurance team members manually verified long checklists of features alongside each bi-weekly release. Now, with 100% automatic deployments multiple times a day, automated tests are the essential tool to preserve site quality and stability. Every engineering team has the responsibility to ensure adequate automated testing. But…
Note: If you haven’t read my article about what it means to be a software engineer, I would recommend you go back and read it first for some valuable context. Okay, so you know that you want to be a software engineer, now what? Should I go to college? Now,…
Lucid recently opened its east coast hub in Raleigh, North Carolina. Having now spent nine months in Raleigh, I can definitively say we chose a great place. I’ve personally made many new friends and had great opportunities to learn and grow from the wonderful people in the area. It’s been…
I’ve been working for Lucid for almost four years as a senior QA specialist, and there is one thing that I look forward to every year: the Hackathon. All members of our R&D teams, which includes designers, engineers, QA specialists, product managers, and analysts, set aside their usual work and…
Having recently graduated with a degree in Computer Science and started working as a software engineer, I have found myself receiving a deluge of questions from friends, family, even random people in the streets. Among being asked to fix printers or getting solicitations for free coding work, one of the…