June 15, 2018
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…
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May 11, 2018
Functional Thinking
Functional Programming is more than a set of principles. It’s a paradigm; a different way of thinking. It focuses on the “what” is being done, as opposed to the “how”…
April 19, 2018
Books that made the biggest impact on me
I have came across a lot of posts and tweets where someone talks about books they have read recently, that had a big impact on their career or the way…
March 28, 2018
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…
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…
May 05, 2017
Feature teams 101
When I joined the company there was only an engineering team. As we started to grow we ended up splitting into three teams. There was the mandatory platform team that…
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…
March 24, 2017
Make your integration tests faster using HSQL
Test Driven Development with Unit tests and Integration Tests The golden rule of Test Driven Development is never write new functionality without a failing test. Yes. You need to start…
March 01, 2017
TDD for your technical interview
That technical challenge is coming, and when it does, do you want TDD by your side? A true story A year ago I had no experience with tests. During an interview,…
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…