Software Engineering

January 12, 2022 Downtime Report

Hello!

We had a few minutes of downtime today (Jan 12th, 2022), and our team would like to explain what happened.

We have big plans for Classkick in 2022! Part of those plans is to create some tools that allow our team to…

Classkick and the Log4j Vulnerability (CVE-2021–44228)

Hello!

Let’s get the thing you are most likely here for out of the way first:

Classkick does not use log4j, and is not vulnerable to CVE-2021–44228.

Refactor engineering interview at Classkick

We at Classkick are committed to building a diverse, collaborative, and talented engineering team. While we have documented and…

How we hire engineers at Classkick

Here at Classkick, we believe that publishing our entire hiring process is transparent to candidates, holds us accountable and keeps our process intentional. We also recognize that hiring is a challenging process that we are committed to improving regularly. No hiring…

Using Multipart Form Data with Spring Boot

One of Classkick’s most useful features is the ability for teachers and students to add their own media to the canvas. In launching Classkick for web, our challenge was uploading that media from our client to our Spring Boot server. Since we planned to…