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  • Olark

    #<User:0x00007ae0d1a5fdc0> Coolfront Technologies


    Used as a our Live chat client for our websites and applications.

  • Conversica

    #<User:0x00007ae0d1a7d708> Coolfront Technologies


    Artificial intelligence sales assistant used by our inside sales team to qualify leads.

  • Uberflip

    #<User:0x00007ae0d1a81ec0> Coolfront Technologies


    Used to manage our content on our websites.

  • Librato

    #<User:0x00007ae0d108d900> Coolfront Technologies


    Used to monitor Coolfront Mobile environment.

  • HireFire

    #<User:0x00007ae0d0a5b370> Coolfront Technologies


    Used by Coolfront Mobile and Coolfront Books to manage the number of Heroku dynos that are running during different times of the day.

  • Cloudinary

    #<User:0x00007ae0d0a791b8> Coolfront Technologies


    Used in Coolfront Mobile to store logos.

  • MySQL

    #<User:0x00007ae0d006bf40> Coolfront Technologies


    Backing database for Coolfront Agreements.

  • Logentries

    #<User:0x00007ae0d008b7c8> Coolfront Technologies


    Main service used by Coolfront Mobile and Coolfront Books to capture logging information.

  • Paylocity

    #<User:0x00007ae0ce73bf48> Coolfront Technologies


    Used internally for HR purposes.

  • Voxeo

    #<User:0x00007ae0ce75f510> Coolfront Technologies


    Used for automated phone calls from Coolfront Agreements.

  • Stream

    #<User:0x00007ae0ca86fbe8> Coolfront Technologies


    Used by Coolfront Mobile's "feed" implementation.

  • Google Tag Manager

    #<User:0x00007ae0ca8728c0> Coolfront Technologies


    To manage tracking code for our websites.

  • RingCentral

    #<User:0x00007ae0c89c5c88> Coolfront Technologies


    Phone system and internal communication tool "Glip".

  • Papertrail

    #<User:0x00007ae0c89e5c90> Coolfront Technologies


    Used a logging solution for "Charlie" (Flat rate search engine) server.

  • Metabase

    #<User:0x00007ae0c8926ae8> Coolfront Technologies


    Used to run internal reports and analytics on Coolfront Mobile data.

  • Docker

    #<User:0x00007ae0c89410f0> Coolfront Technologies


    Used in developer's environments to make it easier to manage multiple dependent technologies. (e.g. Kafka, Flink and Postgres, Redis, etc...).

  • jQuery

    #<User:0x00007ae0c534c6c0> Coolfront Technologies


    Used within code-base for Coolfront Mobile.

  • G Suite

    #<User:0x00007ae0c526f478> Coolfront Technologies


    Used by entire Company as the main productivity suite.

  • React

    #<User:0x00007ae0c529e570> Coolfront Technologies


    Used within Coofront Mobile for Flat rate repair search engine and the Coolfront "feed" within Coolfront Mobile.

  • Java

    #<User:0x00007ae0c52be398> Coolfront Technologies


    Used for Flink and Kafka development. Also used for the development of Selenium tests.

  • npm

    #<User:0x00007ae0c52d2280> Coolfront Technologies


    Used to manage the various node modules within our Coolfront Mobile stack.

  • Amazon EC2

    #<User:0x00007ae0c8896a60> Coolfront Technologies


    Houses virtual machine for change log server and Kafka/Flink Quality Assurance system. Both of these are pieces of the overall Coolfront Mobile ecosystem.

  • Postman

    #<User:0x00007ae0c88c4118> Coolfront Technologies


    A development tool used working with internal and external API's.

  • WordPress

    #<User:0x00007ae0c89f3ca0> Coolfront Technologies


    Used to create, manage and deploy Company Website.

  • Google Drive

    #<User:0x00007ae0ca820c00> Coolfront Technologies


    Used by Company for sharing and creating Business documents, slides, sheets, etc...

  • Amazon S3

    #<User:0x00007ae0ca8bbcc8> Coolfront Technologies


    Primarily used to store and host Flat rate database files that get downloaded to users devices for Coolfront Mobile.

  • Bitbucket

    #<User:0x00007ae0d0016e00> Coolfront Technologies


    One of the two source code-repositories used. The other is GitHub.

  • Ubuntu

    #<User:0x00007ae0d00a76d0> Coolfront Technologies


    Operating system used to develop products and also used on Heroku platform.

  • Ruby

    #<User:0x00007ae0d0ac8cb8> Coolfront Technologies


    Language used in Coolfront Agreements and Coolfront Books as well as a small portion of Coolfront Mobile (i.e. for the Quickbooks desktop sync).

  • Stack Overflow

    #<User:0x00007ae0d10a3980> Coolfront Technologies


    A resource used by Developers for research, posing questions, etc...

  • Webpack

    #<User:0x00007ae0d10d3220> Coolfront Technologies


    Used in Coolfront Mobile React components and "Charlie" (Coolfront Mobile Flatrate repair search engine).

  • Elasticsearch

    #<User:0x00007ae0d1daf700> Coolfront Technologies


    Used in Coolfront Books as search service.

  • Heroku

    #<User:0x00007ae0d1e0fd30> Coolfront Technologies


    Cloud-based environment used for hosting Coolfront Mobile and Coolfront books and most internal testing environments.

  • VirtualBox

    #<User:0x00007ae0fe7bf3e0> Coolfront Technologies


    Used by developers to manage different operating system environments.

  • JavaScript

    #<User:0x00007ae0fc17c138> Coolfront Technologies


    Used as the primary language for Coolfront Mobile and all it's ecosystem. Also used for other web-centric products.

  • Jenkins

    #<User:0x00007ae0fc093de8> Coolfront Technologies


    Used for Coolfront Mobile testing.

  • Rails

    #<User:0x00007ae0fb201730> Coolfront Technologies


    Language and Framework used for Coolfront Books and Coolfront Agreements.

  • Dropbox

    #<User:0x00007ae0fb17fe60> Coolfront Technologies


    Coolfront Mobile has an integration written against Dropbox that allows contractors to attach files to Coolfront Mobile work orders.

  • C#

    #<User:0x00007ae0fb04d498> Coolfront Technologies


    Language used for Flat rate data conversion tool.

  • IntelliJ IDEA

    #<User:0x00007ae0fb017140> Coolfront Technologies


    Used for development of Java based applications and projects. e.g. Flink and Kafka.

  • jQuery UI

    #<User:0x00007ae0c52f99c0> Coolfront Technologies


    Used selectively for Coolfront Mobile code-base.

  • Redmine

    #<User:0x00007ae0c532d9a0> Coolfront Technologies


    Used by IT team team to track all tickets for all products. All product defects, features and development tasks are entered in Redmine, categorized, and assigned to developers. All code releases are tracked along with the corresponding tickets within this system.

  • PostgreSQL

    #<User:0x00007ae0c88ecd20> Coolfront Technologies


    Master database used for Coolfont Mobile. Also used for ancillary systems in support of Coolfront Mobile such as: Magic Box, Change log server, Parts ordering system, etc...

  • Twilio SendGrid

    #<User:0x00007ae0c8903520> Coolfront Technologies


    Email service used within Coolfront Mobile to send emails and track emails to contractors and their customers (e.g. home-owners).

  • ExpressJS

    #<User:0x00007ae0c89a2a80> Coolfront Technologies


    Using a portion of ExpressJS in Coolfront Mobile (early code-base) and modeled some of the newer code-base after ExpressJS.

  • Babel

    #<User:0x00007ae0ca830e70> Coolfront Technologies


    Used to transpile Coolfront Mobile Javascript code so that it can be used client-side.

  • Docker Compose

    #<User:0x00007ae0ca852e58> Coolfront Technologies


    Used in developer's environments to make it easier to manage multiple dependent technologies. (e.g. Kafka, Flink and Postgres, Redis, etc...)

  • Sublime Text

    #<User:0x00007ae0ca8e1ea0> Coolfront Technologies


    Used by some developers for development of Javascript files, etc...

  • ES6

    #<User:0x00007ae0d003c308> Coolfront Technologies


    Language selectively used in Coolfront Mobile.

  • Mixpanel

    #<User:0x00007ae0d0056910> Coolfront Technologies


    Used to gather metrics in Coolfront Mobile for "Charlie" (Flat rate search engine) search behaviors (e.g. How end users are searching and finding repairs). Results from data are then used to "train" search engine to become "smarter".

  • Selenium

    #<User:0x00007ae0d0a21918> Coolfront Technologies


    Used occasionally for testing purposes in Coolfront Mobile.

  • WebStorm

    #<User:0x00007ae0d1016ff8> Coolfront Technologies


    Developer's use for editing and developing Javascript projects.

  • Yarn

    #<User:0x00007ae0d10316a0> Coolfront Technologies


    Used in Coolfront Mobile and "Charlie" (flat rate search engine) as packaging mechanism.

  • Google Analytics

    #<User:0x00007ae0d1a1db78> Coolfront Technologies


    Used by marketing team to track "page views", "number of users", and other data. Used by development team to monitor and track usage, browser, device, OS and other information and metrics.

  • Visual Studio Code

    #<User:0x00007ae0d1abeed8> Coolfront Technologies


    Used by some of the developers as IDE.

  • Visual Studio

    #<User:0x00007ae0d1addb80> Coolfront Technologies


    Editor/Complier used for Flat-Rate data Conversion tool.

  • Apache Flink

    #<User:0x00007ae0d1e20bf8> Coolfront Technologies


    Used for analytics on streaming data.

  • Redis

    #<User:0x00007ae100c44e40> Coolfront Technologies


    Used in Coolfront Mobile for job management and queuing.

  • New Relic

    #<User:0x00007ae0fe620fc0> Coolfront Technologies


    Monitoring and metrics for Coolfront Mobile.

  • SQLite

    #<User:0x00007ae0fb2ce7f8> Coolfront Technologies


    Used during the "build process" of Coolfront Mobile's Flat rate search engine database. Flat rate data that resides in Salesforce is transformed using SQLite into a format that is usable for our mobile Flat rate search engine (AKA: Charlie).

  • Kafka

    #<User:0x00007ae0fb27a8d8> Coolfront Technologies


    Building out real-time streaming server to present data insights to Coolfront Mobile customers and internal sales and marketing teams.

  • ESLint

    #<User:0x00007ae0fb0eabf8> Coolfront Technologies


    Code checking and normalization for Coolfront Mobile code-base.

  • Pingdom

    #<User:0x00007ae0fb0930d8> Coolfront Technologies


    Monitoring for Coolfront Mobile, Coolfront Agreements and Coolfront Books. Alerts Coolfront IT team when systems can not be reached.

  • Mocha

    #<User:0x00007ae0faf83710> Coolfront Technologies


    Testing for our Coolfront Mobile product

  • GitHub

    #<User:0x00007ae0fae3e3a0> Coolfront Technologies


    One of the two primary code repositories used. The other is Bitbucket.

  • Git

    #<User:0x00007ae0f9de2628> Coolfront Technologies


    Used for code management and Heroku deployments for all of our products.

  • Node.js

    #<User:0x00007ae0faf784a0> Coolfront Technologies


    Used as part of the core technology for Coolfront Mobile and all the accompanying ancillary systems.

  • HTML5

    #<User:0x00007ae0faf46a40> Coolfront Technologies


    Used as part of the core technology for all of our products.