Engineering

Just like data scientists, Spider-Man is a force for good, but often misunderstood. He is basically a big spider: brave, strong, and smart. In this article, we will explore his abilities, using real science (as much as possible), to answer a couple of questions: 1. How strong is Spider-Man’s silk…

Hi, I’m Johnny from the Shippio engineering team. This blog post reports the offsite meeting we had with the entire product development team on December 1st and 2nd. What is Offsite? At Shippio, we have been holding an offsite event about once every six months. Offsite is an event where we gather in…

Written by Neil Innes, Senior Cloud Platforms Manager Background Thursday 3rd November saw FanDuel and AWS team up; not only for FanDuel’s first EBA day, but AWS’s first ever EBA day in EMEA. Hang on, too many acronyms, what does EBA mean? Experience Based Acceleration is the answer, and the…

When your engineering team size doubles almost overnight, confusion about roles and responsibilities can quickly set in across your organization. Team charters can help you through the chaos. Having worked for fast-growing technology and consumer packaged goods companies throughout my career, I’ve learned you are never too smart to benefit…

At NewDay, we deeply care about software testing and, while we are big fans of TDD, there is no denying that being able to debug software effectively is a crucial aspect of software engineering. Favouring a debugging session instead of writing a new unit test is a big topic on…

“Quality means doing it right when no one is looking ~Henry Ford” Let me start by sharing my experience, which I faced a few months back. We received a bug that required only a minor fix. …

Introducing ChatGPT ChatGPT has gone viral since OpenAI released the text-based artificial intelligence tool last month. It’s the latest development in the world of generative AI, which has attracted billions of dollars in funding from tech investors. Here’s a little background on the company: OpenAI is an artificial intelligence (AI) research laboratory…

Is RBS — a type annotation system introduced in Ruby 3 — production-ready? Find out as we share pros and cons, how to use it with plain Ruby or with Ruby on Rails, a comparison with Sorbet, and our recommendation. — by Hugo Farji, Senior Ruby on Rails Engineer at Whitespectre Ruby is a dynamic language and you probably already know that it doesn’t have explicit typing included in its toolset. RBS aims to introduce new tools to help with that.