About https://www.facebook.com/pg/squarespace/about/?ref=page_internalSuggest Edits CONTACT INFO http://sqsp.link/jADxNI MORE INFO About Squarespace provides creative tools that power the future of the web. Company Overview Squarespace's mission is to provide creative tools that power the future of the web. From designers creating the next generation of web and mobile experiences, to anyone managing their own online presence for the first time, Squarespace provides elegant solutions that set new standards for online publishing. By focusing our efforts on the fusion of design and engineering, we strive to create long-lasting products that delight and surprise our customers. Awards Time Magazine's Best 50 Websites of 2012 Forbes Most Promising Companies in America 2013 Crain's Best Places to Work in NYC 2012 Products Squarespace Web Publishing Platform categories Product/Service

NOV 28 The Nuts and Bolts with Robyn Trovati SQUARESPACE ENGINEERING "The Nuts and Bolts" is a reoccurring Q&A with Squarespace engineers. Questions are compiled by their peers to guarantee we get right to the good stuff. OCT 18 UI Testing at Squarespace: Part II JOE RUTHERFORD Over the last four years, Squarespace’s product offerings have expanded significantly. To keep up with Squarespace's growing platform, we needed to scale our functional test coverage. We created Firepit, a user interface (UI) for configuring and triggering tests. Firepit empowers engineers to easily run custom test suites in Squarespace's deployment environments. The foundation of our testing philosophy is straightforward: write tests that are simple, readable, and stable. OCT 4 UI Testing at Squarespace: Part I JULIAN APPLEBAUM With continuous deployment enabled for critical backend services and Squarespace’s entire application frontend, it is essential to have meaningful, reliable UI tests. Anything merged to master will ship to production automatically with no human checks, so these tests are the last guarantee that basic features of our product work. To effectively test Squarespace’s complex, interaction-heavy application, we built a uniquely powerful browser testing tool called Charcoal. AUG 24 APIs First ROY KACHOUH Designing web service APIs can be a tricky art form. APIs serve as a virtual playbook necessary for interacting with your business domain, and more importantly, they are the contracts that bind service owners with their consumers. Therefore, getting design right early on is an important part of the service engineering we do at Squarespace. JUL 28 The Nuts and Bolts with Ryan Gee SQUARESPACE ENGINEERING "The Nuts and Bolts" is a recurring Q&A with Squarespace engineers. Questions are compiled by their peers to guarantee we get right to the good stuff. JUN 27 Understanding Linux Container Scheduling KEVIN LYNCH It is important to understand how containers are implemented using Linux control groups (cgroups) and namespaces. Understanding the features and limitations has helped us dramatically improve the performance of our Java services especially under stressful scenarios. JUN 1 Under the Hood: Ensuring Site Reliability FRANKLIN ANGULO Squarespace hosts millions of websites on our cloud-based website-building platform. The reliability of these sites is a top priority for us. We’re consistently implementing the best technologies and safeguards to enable quick load times and prevent outages. The measures we take allow our customers to create Squarespace websites with confidence. MAY 22 The Pillars of Squarespace Services ROY KACHOUH Over the last three years, we have begun to make investments in architectural changes, including the breakup of our monolith into smaller, well-defined service boundaries. In this blog post, I will touch on a challenge that the Core Services Team faced: defining the pillars and core functionality of a service. MAR 16 Using Machine Learning for Visual Searches NEEL VADOOTHKER How do we become familiar with such a wide range of customers to build them the products they need? Many Squarespace sites are heavily visual and contain a lot of images and photos. If we were to only search with text, we’d miss crucial visual and stylistic features of many Squarespace sites. FEB 15 Building the Future of Squarespace Templates GEORGE ZHANG Squarespace Templates are powerful tools used by millions of people every day to build their websites without writing code. Today, we’re excited to announce that we’ve released two of our newest consumer templates—Endeavor and Wright—on GitHub. JAN 13 Implementing HTTP/2 for Squarespace Websites FRANKLIN ANGULO At Squarespace, we strive to provide our customers and their visitors with fast and responsive browsing experiences. Today, we proudly announce HTTP/2 support for all Squarespace sites with TLS enabled. DEC 20 SaaS: Screenshots as a Service MIKE WRIGHTON As part of our ongoing efforts to improve user experience on the Squarespace platform, we added a feature to display thumbnail previews of all of your account’s sites in the account picker. Since we didn’t have any existing functionality around screenshot generation, this was something we had to build from scratch. In this post we’ll talk about the screenshots microservice solution we came up with.