For many employees in America, Thanksgiving weekend was a time for relaxation, a chance to take a brief break from work. This year, though, that wasn’t so much the case for engineers at Avalara. During the midst of what it calls the “Super Bowl of online shopping,” the Seattle tax automation startup suffered technical problems this past Friday that forced some retailers to stop charging sales tax to customers. In response, Avalara Executive Vice President of Engineering Peter Horadan told GeekWire that his engineering team spent “48 straight hours of coding” through the weekend to fix the latency problem, which caused server slowdowns… Read More
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