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How to make Okta Oauth2 work on Grafana without outage

Detailed Guide on implementing Okta Oauth2 to simplify user management for Grafana.

Would you like to join EverQuote’s Developer Experience (DX) Team?

Are you interested in working for a fun, fast growing company that puts YOU first? Well, if you are, you are in the right place! At EverQuote, we currently have 18 teams working within our engineering organization. Whilst the Cloud Engineering (CE) team is responsible for the our base cloud

interview

Interview Best Practices

Do you have a job interview coming up? Or are you curious what tips recruiters have when it comes to job interviews? Then you have come to the right place! We got you covered with a curated list of interview tips and tricks directly from our own HR professionals here

Techology

Modern Application Log Handling with Structured Logs

Logs are one of the three pillars of observability. They allow you to understand what happened in your application and are valuable in debugging issues. However, as the number of users of an application increases, the volume of the generated logs can grow exponentially. This makes it harder to query

Culture

Inside look at EverQuote's Culture

A company's culture is the glue that binds an organization and its employees. Since I started at EverQuote almost two years ago, the one, unanimous thing I have heard from other employees is EverQuote’s people and culture make the company. And given my own experiences, I would say the

AWS

AWS Lambda: 10 suggestions I wish I had known when starting out

At EverQuote, we are passionate about our DevOps toolchain and improving our lead time. Teams are encouraged to share best practices and curate patterns that can be replicated across the company. The following suggestions are my own and subjective, but they are based on my personal experiences with using AWS

Marketing

Social Media Marketing for Insurance Agents: Top Industry Tips You Should Know

Social media has become an increasingly crucial aspect of digital marketing, with tremendous potential to influence consumers, build brands, and sell products. If your insurance business doesn’t have social media channels set up, it’s missing out on a huge opportunity to expand and evolve. Best of all: once

Engineering

Jaeger Agent

This article describes how EverQuote uses the Jaeger Agent (among others) to receive traces from instrumented workloads and forward them to the Jaeger backend. Disclaimer: Just as in the previous article, this particular setup should not be construed as an endorsement or recommendation. Use your own judgment before adopting anything

Engineering

Jaeger Backend: Collector & Query

This article describes how EverQuote uses the Jaeger Operator to provision the Jaeger backend. Disclaimer: Just as in the previous article, this particular setup should not be construed as an endorsement or recommendation. Use your own judgment before adopting anything covered by this article. AssumptionsI will assume that we are

Engineering

Jaeger Persistence: ElasticSearch

This article describes how EverQuote uses AWS-managed OpenDistro ElasticSearch clusters as persistent storage for the Jaeger backend (Collector + Query). Disclaimer: Jaeger also supports Cassandra as a storage backend as well as a variety of deployment strategies. This particular setup should therefore not be construed as an endorsement or recommendation. Use

Engineering

What is EverQuote’s Goatcoin?

We’re going to disappoint many people out there looking for the next big cryptocurrency to invest in! We’ll have to apologize but please continue reading. EverQuote’s Goatcoin is not a cryptocurrency, it was created and launched for internal use only on May 15, 2020. Goatcoin is a

Engineering

Expert Pythonistas Hate This: Five Quirky Things About Python That Will Shock You

At EverQuote, we emphasize Heart as a core value. We use biweekly tech talks as a way to come together across teams and learn the intricacies of our tools. Here are some of the quirky things we learned about Python--hope you enjoy as much as we did! Other folks have

Culture

Innovation Week

EverQuote drives innovation. The company has several events throughout the year that center around innovation and creativity. By allowing employees to explore their skills through creating projects that solve tech problems, EverQuote helps foster innovation and growth within their employees. One way EverQuote drives innovation is through The Innovation and

Diversity

Women’s History Month Recap

Within EverQuote, the Women’s Employee Resource Group (ERG) operates all year round to bring together women working across the company. The ERG works to highlight and celebrate the achievements of women both within and outside EverQuote, and to engage people of all genders in seeing and recognising the contributions

Diversity

Black History Month 2021 Social Events and Fundraisers

This month EverBlack supported the communities by promoting black owned restaurants and held EQ social events... a movie night and a trivia night. To help the Boston Area, EverBlack also successfully ran a fundraiser. Haley House FundraiserDuring Black History Month (BHM) EverBlack will be having a fundraiser for a Boston

Diversity

Black History Month 2021 Speaker Series

This month we held three sessions dedicated to discussing issues people of color face daily. These sessions covered challenges ranging from professional and socioeconomic to systemic and political. Sheena Collier, CEO of Boston While Black 2/5Sheena shared her journey from Albany to Spelman College to Harvard Graduate School of

Culture

Day in the Life of a Software Engineer

Sophie Veksler, a Software Engineer II at EverQuote, works on the analytics platform team known as EQDP, EverQuote Data Platform. As a software engineer, Sophie has been responsible for ensuring data is correctly added into GOAT, EverQuote’s internal metrics tracking system, among other things. “A lot of what I

Diversity

Q4 2020 External DEI Report

This inaugural EverQuote annual diversity, equity and inclusion report is dedicated to our late co-founder and CEO, Seth Birnbaum. Seth was a vocal ally, participant, and leader in the DEI space since EverQuote was founded. Well known for his relentless passion for driving EverQuote to become a leading destination for

Culture

Starting a Software Engineering Job Remotely

The First Day March 30th, 2020 - 8:15am. My alarm aggressively rings, Alexa turns all of my lights on, and I groan. Rolling out of bed I head to my desk 4 feet away; what a long commute. This is not what I expected my first day of work

Culture

Intern Spotlight: Melhem Antar

“This internship has probably been the best experience. This one has been the best balanced internship I've had because I feel like I wasn't stressed to the limit all the time but I was able to work at my own pace and get a little outside of my comfort zone

Culture

Intern Spotlight: Faustina Owusu

“One thing that really stuck out to me, based on the images I saw and based on their mission, was how close employees at EverQuote are,” said Faustina Owusu, a software engineer intern at EverQuote. “Not only that but their values too. A lot of them stuck out to me

Engineering

Python Kubernetes Best Practices

A quick overview of what we've collectively learned so far about running Python applications in production at EverQuote.