Distributed architecture concepts I learned while building a large payments system
I joined Uber two years ago as a mobile software engineer with some backend experience. I ended up building the payments functionality in the app - »
Seven things that helped me move into engineering management
I have moved from being a tech lead to engineering manager close to a year ago. I wanted to share some of the things that over »
Things I've learned transitioning from engineer to engineering manager
A couple of months ago I moved from a senior engineer position to being an engineering manager on a medium sized team. I've found this role »
Transitioning From Objective C to Swift in 4 Steps - Without Rewriting The Existing Code
We started developing Skyscanner TravelPro in Objective C in March 2015. A couple of months later, when Swift 2.0 was released, we started to slowly »
My Code Ended Up Running an Oil Rig. These are the 5 Things I Learned.
In 2010 I built one of the most advanced charting libraries available for Windows, Visiblox [1]. Originally I was pretty convinced it would mostly be finance »
What Agile Really Means
Nowadays almost every software development company and team claims to be agile and usually follows some kind of agile methodology. However in the middle of the »
Extending the Ghost Default Theme with a Sidebar, Social Navigation Links, Disqus Comments & a Contact Form
The blogging platform I chose for my blog is the open source Ghost blogging platform. The main reasons I decided to go with it was it's »
A Comment Is An Invitation For Refactoring
Uncle Bob Martin has a pretty strict view on comments. He goes as far to say: A comment is an apology for not choosing a more »
The Software Development Dilemma: Move Fast without Breaking Things?
One of the most famous Facebook slogans is Move Fast and Break Things. This is how Pedram Keyani thinks back about what this meant at Facebook »
Swift: The Only Modern Language without Mocking Frameworks
Swift was designed to be a safe language and is has not fallen short of that promise. Here is how Apple describes the new language: Swift »