Engineering
Provisioning kubernetes clusters, log message aggregation, and designing and implementing tpctl are just a few of the interesting things our Engineering team is diving into. Learn more about how we work.
Tidepool on the MongoDB podcast
Listen to Tapani Otala, Tidepool's VP of Engineering, dig into the technology that powers Tidepool's open source software and how MongoDB plays a crucial role in our engineering stack.
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Designing and implementing tpctl
Software engineer Derrick Burns talks about how Tidepool designed and implemented a tool to generate our Kubernetes manifests.
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Provisioning our Kubernetes clusters
Our software engineer Derrick Burns discusses how we provision our Kubernetes clusters.
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Access logging and log message aggregation
Our software engineer Derrick Burns talks about logging, accessing, and aggregating the right data in the Tidepool Platform.
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Hosted MongoDB
How we migrated our production Mongo database from our self-hosted servers to Atlas MongoDB and how our performance has improved as a result.
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Using a service mesh
Tidepool deals with personal and private health information. By encrypting the traffic using mutual TLS, a service mesh can protect traffic between services from being read.
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Secrets management
Private data comes in many forms at Tidepool, all of which must be stored and transmitted safely and securely.
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Continuous delivery with GitOps
Detailing how Tidepool engineers deploy software continuously with GitOps, as part of the ongoing backend monderization efforts with Kubernetes.
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Upgrading our API Gateway with Gloo
In our latest engineering blog post, software engineer Derrick Burns explains why Kubernetes-native Gloo is a great API gateway for Tidepool.
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Modernizing our backend with Kubernetes
Detailing the process of migrating our backend services for the Tidepool platform to Kubernetes.
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One step closer to an integrated diabetes management ecosystem - a guest post from Companion Medical
Companion Medical CEO and President Sean Saint shares a bit of information about InPen, and the new possibilities of integrated diabetes care and data interoperability.
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FDA Pre-Cert Pilot Program — Part 3
Here’s 101 questions to ask yourself about how you’re building medical or healthcare software. These cover builds, releases and deployment, and code quality.
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Behind the code of Tidepool Uploader 2.0
Here’s a behind the scenes look at how and why we built Tidepool Uploader 2.0. You can now upload your diabetes device data directly to Tidepool.
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It’s a matter of time
Why it’s so hard to keep track of time on diabetes devices, and what Tidepool just did to make it a whole lot easier.
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"How can I help?"
Here's how you can help us have a real impact on the experience of managing type 1 diabetes.
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Our first outside contribution!
One of the milestones in any open source project is when someone from outside the project makes a contribution. Today that happened for us.
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Where's the code? (Or, a funny thing happened while on the way to an open source license...)
Let’s talk about where we are with making Tidepool's code publicly available, our open source license strategy, and draft license.
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What Will It Take to Change the Ecosystem?
Phone companies resisted the internet and now their new business model is even better. The same shift could happen for diabetes and device manufacturers.
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