
Tomcat Hates Encoded Slashes | Widen Engineering
After sending a GET request containing escaped slashes to our Tomcat-hosted endpoint, we expect to receive a 2xx response. But instead, our server responds w...
The Story of Widen's Frontend Component Library
Widen has always strived to create functional and useful user interfaces to allow content strategists, marketers, and others to manage their digital content. We have always kept a …
Open Source Guidelines | Widen Engineering
Licensing Widen recommends the ISC for new projects. MIT and Apache are also viable. Ensure projects you contribute to have a well know and appropriate license such as the GPL, LGPL, …
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As part of Widen's commitment to contributing back to the open-source community, we have sponsored work to improve the CSS variables implementation in WebKit. Read on to learn …
AWS CloudFront User Authentication using Lambda@Edge
CloudFront has a feature named origin access identity that allows you to serve private S3 content. The missing link is the ability to validate requests as they are received by CloudFront. On July …
Why We Use Yarn | Widen Engineering
The best package manager for you is not what this blog or that blog recommends, but the one you feel most comfortable with. This post is intended to share why we at Widen chose Yarn as our …
Dagster + Meltano: A complete open-source ELT solution for the …
The tools we selected are relative newcomers to the data world but both have picked up a lot of traction in a short time. Meltano is an open-source ELT tool built on the Singer Specification …
A Tale of Performance - JavaScript, Rust, and WebAssembly - Widen
Widen is a technology company, and like many other technology companies we do a lot of presentation (and, therefore, sorting) of data. Recently, I came across one of our internally …
Sometimes, a Billion Laughs Aren't so Funny - Widen
Widen, like many companies, makes heavy use of open-source technology, and we’ve made it a part of our mission to give back to this community that we benefit so much from. In light of this, …
The Future of Web Development - React, Falcor, and ES6 - Widen
The current stack at Widen has traditionally consisted of Java on the server, AngularJS for all of our browser-related code (within the last few years), Jersey for REST API support, and a …