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APIDays is a world series of conferences about—you guessed it—APIs. It made a lot of sense for us to attend it in past years, since we started Bearer as an API monitoring platform. As we pivoted to a data security product a year ago, we wondered if we still had something to contribute.That was until we learned … Read more

Tech companies building cloud-native applications face a set of unique and rising data protection challenges. At Bearer, we had the chance to speak with 100+ data security and privacy professionals including Chief Information Security Officers, Directors of Security Engineering, Application Security Engineers, Data Protection Officers, Privacy Engineers, and many more.  Here are the top concerns … Read more

End of summer 2020: Bearer takes the decision to pivot. We have been building an API monitoring & debugging solution for engineering and DevOps teams. We have a stable product and dozens of users onboard. Even so, after months of iterations product adoption is still low and our positioning with all-in-one monitoring solutions is disadvantageous. … Read more

Offsites are a big part of remote teams. They allow everyone to socialize, connect more deeply with coworkers, and help build shared experiences and empathy. Even if video calls are a great tool to share information, they can be tiring. It’s too easy to miss non-verbal cues. Chance encounters over coffee never happen, and we don’t … Read more

Bearer’s co-founders Guillaume and Cédric are big advocates for remote work. Both have written about the advantages and challenges in the past on the Bearer Blog, but today I want to share some thoughts from our team on what it’s like working for a distributed, fully remote company. A few main trends came up. Some expected, and a few surprising. What appeals … Read more

At Bearer, we use GraphQL to allow our Dashboard application to communicate with our database. Recently we gave this GraphQL API a re-design. Here are a couple of lessons we learned during the process. Lesson one: Serve the user, not your database “[GraphQL] is a query language for your API”. This bears repeating: GraphQL is a query … Read more

A couple of weeks ago, I attended the P9 Founder Summit in Malta organized by Point Nine Capital. One of the workshops was about remote work. Soon after, I led a webinar for the #p9family and I thought I would share our experience at Bearer thus far. It’s all about sharing and communicating When you are … Read more

Bearer is a remote-first company; we have always found this to be a strength, for many reasons.Hiring is one of them. Thus far, we hired, mainly opportunistically, by networking. This method worked well up to the point when we needed to expand our circle and hire from the outside. From 1 to 10 Guillaume and I have … Read more

At Bearer, we’ve been crafting a remote-first company since day one. Not only are we remote-first, we are, in fact, a multi-regional, multi-cultural, multi-lingual, remote-first company, something even more unique! Since we’ve been running the company this way for more than a year now, we took this as a good opportunity to reflect on the culture … Read more