Squarespace Engineering Blog

In the fast-paced world of software development, documentation often gets a bad rap. It's perceived as a chore, a necessary evil, and sometimes, unfortunately, an afterthought. But what if writing documentation could be as dynamic and collaborative as...

PostgreSQL is awesome, and here at Squarespace, we love it for the stable foundation it provides for ACID (Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, and Durability) compliant, business-critical workloads. However, it doesn’t scale horizontally – at least not...

On the Unfold team at Squarespace, we build our mobile app for both iOS and Android, and our releases don't require much in the way of manual intervention or human oversight. In fact, we don’t have to give releases much thought at all.
This was not always true. There was a time, not all that long ago, when our mobile release process was often busy and cumbersome, slowing us down and taking our focus away from what we do best. To try to find a solution, we set out on a journey to refine...

At Squarespace, we aim to help our customers catch their customers’ eyes. Media assets, like images and videos of products or services, are important to show what our customers have to offer. So, the process of adding and iterating on media assets should...