July 06, 2017
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…
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June 05, 2017
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…
April 27, 2017
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…
February 23, 2017
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…
February 09, 2017
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…
June 15, 2016
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…
June 10, 2015
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…
November 24, 2014
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…
October 23, 2014
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 09, 2014
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…