Justin G. - Retool Blog

Getting Started with Stored Procedures in PostgreSQL

Learn how and when to use stored procedures with Postgres.

Migrating from Google Sheets to Postgres

A lot of databases start off as a spreadsheet. And if that’s indeed true for you, there’s a good chance you’re thinking about migrating some data from Google Sheets over

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CRUD with the MongoDB Node.js SDK

If you are building an app on top of MongoDB and want some help navigating your selectOnes, understanding projections, figuring out the difference(s) between insertMany and bulkWrite, and deciphering other methods they didn’t teach you in SQL class, this tutorial is for you.

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React Native component library roundup

Here is our roundup of React native component libraries—both general and special purpose ones—with most important characteristics and helpful links.

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Why is Oracle worth $260B?

How did software that most developers at startups have never used get this big? Understanding Oracle starts with understanding the history of relational databases, and digging into their business and competitive practices.

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How to build a Super Subscription Center in Retool using Stripe and Sync Inc.

This tutorial walks how to build a subscription management center using Retool, Stripe, and Sync Inc.

[Launch] Join the Retool developer community!

The Retool community is the best place to get help, share what you're building, and level up your Retool skills.

Building an email sender app with the SendGrid Mail Send API in under an hour

This tutorial is going to walk through how to build a Retool app that uses the SendGrid API to send emails to your customers – in just under an hour (yes, one hour).

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Building a file uploader and viewer app with the DigitalOcean Spaces API

This tutorial walks through how to build a basic file uploader and viewer app in under an hour using Retool and the DigitalOcean Spaces API.

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New Developments: Ken Liu (Cockroach Labs)

We talked to Ken about what internal tools look like at a database company, measuring build times, and when to build vs. buy.

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New Developments: Sole Pano (Auth0)

We talked to Sole about how her team at Auth0 approaches building internal tools, their stack, and differences with how they think about customer facing builds.

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New Developments: Curtis Cummings (On Deck)

We talked to Curtis about how On Deck approaches internal tools, from scaling cohort operations to building quick MVPs in low-code tools.

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New Developments: Soroush Pour (Vow)

We talked to Soroush about how his team at Vow works on internal tools, from microscopes to lab notebooks and admin panels.

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New Developments: Andrew Homeyer (Halp)

We talked to Andrew Homeyer about how his teams at Halp build and maintain their internal tools.

What's Accenture?

Accenture made $43B in 2019 - you've probably heard of them, but you might not be sure what they actually do. This post will help.

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Building a Shopify customer and order dashboard with GraphQL in Retool

We’re going to build a customer dashboard that lets you see orders and products in one view using the Shopify GraphQL API in Retool.

The state of internal tools in 2020

We surveyed 300 developers and builders about their internal tools: how much time they invest, which frameworks they use, and what their biggest frustrations are.

How we migrated our community from Spectrum to Discourse

The details behind how we migrated our community from Spectrum to Discourse, and the scripts we used to do it.

Building an admin dashboard in react-admin

This tutorial walks through how to build a fully functional admin panel in React backed by a REST API with authentication using the react-admin framework.

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Database locking & database isolation levels

The realm of database locking and isolation has an almost mystic air to it. This post will hopefully make things simpler.

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How to build great internal tools: Jeremy Edberg (eBay, Reddit, Netflix)

Jeremy Edberg has been working as an engineer in the Bay Area since 1998. He’s worked on great internal tools at eBay, as the first engineering hire at Reddit, and as the first reliability engineer at Netflix.

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How Retool helped run a presidential campaign

Sunil Sadasivan ran tech for Cory Booker's 2020 presidential campaign, and talked to us about the challenges of quickly scaling a team to match.

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How to build great internal tools: Chad Rosen (Twitter, Wealthfront)

Chad Rosen has been working as a software engineer and engineering manager in the Bay Area since 2001. He has helped contribute to both the product and internal tools at companies like Good Technology, ClickShift, Twitter, and Wealthfront.

What's an ACID compliant database?

Most modern SQL DBs use transactional standards like ACID to ensure data integrity and keep your users from seeing wrong or stale data, and this post explores how they work.

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Building a listing approval tool in MongoDB

In this post, we’re going to build a full featured Airbnb listing review app that reads and writes to MongoDB, with minimal code, in under an hour.

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