Monthly archives for June 2011:
Introduction A year ago I was working in the IT department of a large commodities trading company, managing a team of 11 people. I’d been developing software since my early teens, but I’d wanted to try my hand at managing. … Continue reading
Evernote’s servers process a lot of data for our users. At any given time, a shard may be performing different activities for different clients. For example: Constructing dynamic web pages for user accounts Performing API calls on notebooks, tags, etc. … Continue reading
Yesterday, we released Evernote Peek, the world’s first app that’s controlled using the iPad 2 Smart Cover. We aren’t letting ourselves submit entries into the Evernote Developer Competition (pay yourself first?), but Peek is an excellent example of the type of app … Continue reading
Dave recently wrote a detailed post on why our API is built on Apache Thrift. With that as a background, I’d like to give you an introduction to why we have an open API, and what we hope that developers like … Continue reading


