October 28, 2021
A new chapter for Plaid’s bug bounty program
October is Cybersecurity Awareness month and we’re excited to share some new updates to Plaid’s bug bounty program.
September 15, 2021
Adopting the OpenAPI schema to generate Plaid’s SDKs
The developer experience team focuses on building tools and features that make it as easy as possible for developers to explore our APIs and integrate with Plaid.
August 20, 2021
Building a new future: My path to becoming an engineering apprentice at Plaid
Luke Yeom shares why he decided to pursue coding full-time and his experience joining Plaid's first engineering Apprenticeship Program.
July 16, 2021
Three years of Salt Lake City
Learn more about how we built our engineering hub in Salt Lake City.
June 10, 2021
Exploring performance differences between Amazon Aurora and vanilla MySQL
Amazon’s Aurora MySQL is Plaid’s primary relational database. It's proven to be a reliable and scalable storage layer that backs some of our most critical systems.
May 11, 2021
A New Architecture for Plaid Link: Server-Driven UI with Directed Graphs
"Flexible Link”: the re-architecture set out to not only solve the existing scaling problems but to develop a product platform that would deliver years of diverse new product...
March 19, 2021
How we scaled our logging stack by creating per-team budgets
The ELK Stack is a vital component of real-time observability at Plaid. All Plaid services can send logs to an AWS hosted ElasticSearch cluster (ES for brevity), so...
February 19, 2021
2020 State of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging in Plaid Engineering
2020 State of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging in Plaid Engineering
November 19, 2020
How we built developer efficiency at Plaid
For the longest time, Plaid was a company with just a few engineers primarily focusing on the product and execution. Everyone was working on the product to create...
October 22, 2020
How Plaid parses transaction data
At Plaid, we link financial accounts to applications, removing the need for our customers to build individual connections to financial institutions and standardizing the data that’s...
September 30, 2020
Building a spiky org
A few months ago, I spoke on the SFELC podcast (Part I , Part II ) on my experience as an engineering leader at Plaid....
September 09, 2020
Reducing docker images' size
At Plaid, all 80+ internal services operate as Docker containers. Containers are deployed; they are built and spawned locally during CI runs. Finally, developers use containers during their...
July 23, 2020
Remote at Plaid
Engineering Manager April Goldman-Sims Shares Plaid Engineering’s Approach to Remote Work COVID has forced us to reimagine what "work" means to us. I've been working as...
June 09, 2020
How we migrated our website from Handlebars to React in 12 weeks
TL;DR: We built an automated tool that let us incrementally migrate, while keeping up regular feature work and maintenance. As a company, Plaid has reached critical...
April 09, 2020
Securing WebViews with Chrome Custom Tabs
Plaid empowers innovators in the fintech space by providing them with access to financial data via a uniform API. In order to help end users connect their...