Code & Programming
Duplicate Distributor Dropdown Feature
Design Fast now consolidates distributors who have multiple package types into a single root distributor for each search result. If a distributor appears multiple times, a grey icon will be displayed next to the distributors name with the number of total package types provided. When you click on the icon, the distributor results will expand,…
Read MoreFull-Text Search Improvement
During our early stage development we decided to adopt ElasticSearch as our NoSQL document store and full-text search engine. Elastic is backed by Apache Lucene, which provides the indexing and search feature functionality for ElasticSearch. The Elastic ecosystem has made it easy for developers to ingest and query documents containing a variety of data types,…
Read MoreGo Lang – Why we chose Go for DesignFast
There are many variables that go into choosing a language for a new project. When considering all these factors at DesignFast, we felt that developer productivity, network services, and type safety were most important. Ultimately, these values narrowed our choices for a language down to either Node.js or Go. In this article we’ll walk through…
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