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Building an email sender app with the SendGrid Mail Send API in under an hour This tutorial is going to walk through how to build a Retool app that uses the SendGrid API to send emails to your customers – in just under an hour (yes, one hour).
The best React Native datepicker libraries that will save you time We researched and tried a handful of popular React-Native date picker libraries. In this post, we’ll walk you through our favorites and the reasoning behind each selection.
How Oddbox matured (and sped up) their customer service using Retool When you ship tens of thousands of boxes of produce a week, issues happen. This is the story of how the PM team helped customer service deliver better user experiences using Retool.
Build together in Retool with Cord comments and annotations In this post, we’ll walk through how to use Retool with Cord. Cord lets you add comments, annotations, and guides directly in your favorite apps.
Building a Shopify customer and order dashboard with GraphQL in Retool We’re going to build a customer dashboard that lets you see orders and products in one view using the Shopify GraphQL API in Retool.
Isolation levels and locking in relational databases The realm of database locking and isolation has an almost mystic air to it. This post will hopefully make things simpler.
How to build great internal tools: Jeremy Edberg (eBay, Reddit, Netflix) Jeremy Edberg has been working as an engineer in the Bay Area since 1998. He’s worked on great internal tools at eBay, as the first engineering hire at Reddit, and as the first reliability engineer at Netflix.
How Retool helped run a presidential campaign Sunil Sadasivan ran tech for Cory Booker's 2020 presidential campaign, and talked to us about the challenges of quickly scaling a team to match.
How to build great internal tools: Chad Rosen (Twitter, Wealthfront) Chad Rosen has been working as a software engineer and engineering manager in the Bay Area since 2001. He has helped contribute to both the product and internal tools at companies like Good Technology, ClickShift, Twitter, and Wealthfront.
What's an ACID compliant database? Most modern SQL DBs use transactional standards like ACID to ensure data integrity and keep your users from seeing wrong or stale data, and this post explores how they work.
What’s SAP? What's SAP? And why is it worth $163B?
Building a listing approval tool in MongoDB In this post, we’re going to build a full featured Airbnb listing review app that reads and writes to MongoDB, with minimal code, in under an hour.
Formatting and dealing with dates in SQL This post will run through how you can effectively work with dates in SQL so you can resolve your issue quickly and get back to bed.
Tell us about how you build your internal tools! We're running a survey about how teams build internal tools, and we'd love to hear from you about it.