All the posts for Category: Culture

June 15, 2018 Culture, Shutl, Tech

Swap jobs, become more agile!

At Shutl, we strive to be as agile as possible in our daily work. Being agile is not about using coloured post-it notes, having stand-up meetings, or about writing code like a headless chicken. Being agile is about adaptation: an agile team is able to constantly adapt to the environment despite time pressures, demanding clients,…

March 28, 2018 Culture, Shutl, Tech

InternShip

At Shutl we believe it is very important to be a part of the engineering community and make sure we give back to it. We know that the first steps for individuals are quite often the hardest and we aim to provide support where possible. For example, we have been long supporters and sponsors of…

July 6, 2017 Culture

Making a mentorship work

I was one of the first Junior Engineers joining GDS, and at the time, there was no official mentorship program. Working in a team was helpful but it was not enough; I was still a student and I really needed to overcome my impostor syndrome. But as they say, “if the mountain won’t come to…

June 5, 2017 Culture, Shutl

Taking Shutl on the road!

Everything started in Seattle last year. We were about to start working on eBay stack with our sister team located there. We came to Seattle to meet up with them and agree on the best way to collaborate on common codebase. We had the whole weekend free and we decided to go to Vancouver Island….

April 27, 2017 Culture, Shutl, Tech

How to keep track of workload in an Agile manner

When you work on an Agile tech company like Shutl there are many things happening at the same time every week. Developers are constantly shipping new features and maintaining the company’s systems working to make clients happy. Sometimes this means adding features, sometimes this means fixing bugs that only manifest on remote corner cases and therefore…

February 23, 2017 Culture, Shutl

Distributed orchestration and consensus discovery with a low bandwidth asynchronous signalling protocol

Jazz hands for great meetings When grownups have meetings, they tend to have grownup meetings. When developers have meetings, they tend to just talk at each other for a while until they get bored.

February 9, 2017 Culture, Dev Ops, Shutl, Tech

Hacking your way into security training

As an eBay company, you would think that we feel nervous every time we hear from our InfoSec representatives. What is it now? A new scan, a pen test, an audit? Worse yet, a problem? Fortunately our representative does a great job bringing the different satellite companies together and this time he just wanted to…

June 15, 2016 Culture, Dev Ops, Shutl

How to become a Devops Engineer for dummies!

If you were lured onto this article by the title, it did its job. What you will discover here is how a Junior Developer became part of a team that practices Devops by preparing to take on on-call duties.

June 10, 2015 Culture, Shutl, Tech

Everyone please stand up!

“Everyone please stand up!” That’s what at least one of us shouts at 11am every day. This is the time all engineers, project and product managers gather around the usual pairing station; a randomly nominated engineer fires up the shutl Google hangout session, makes sure the video and sound are working fine and any remote engineers also…

November 24, 2014 Culture, Shutl

Developer Anarchy Day

Have you ever imagined what would happen if you let software developers work on what they want? Well, we did it. For one day. And here is what happened… How it all began “OK, listen: there is no backlog today.” When we first heard these words from Megan instead of the usual beginning of standup, we…

October 23, 2014 Culture

Perspectives on Pairing: Onboarding Entry-level Engineers

I’m Nico and I joined Shutl in September 2014 after attending a 12 week programming bootcamp, before which I had no significant prior experience in developing software.

October 9, 2014 Culture

Perspectives on Pairing: An Introduction

It’s been an incredibly exciting last few weeks at Shutl headquarters as we prepare for our first ever Shutl Tech Blog. (if you’re reading this, it means you’re now sharing in the fruits of that labour). At the risk of becoming a little too “meta” let’s first give a brief overview of the process of…