Coffee doesn't fuel only code: articles by developers for developers
In the last couple of months, we’ve been busy playing around with Jetpack Compose. We had some challenges here and there in the migration, and it’s still a work in progress 🚧.
But this post is more about the fun part of Compose: MODIFIERS!!!! (and more)
Continue reading “Modifiers and Extensions – The Compose Migration Continues”Or: How to kill off the if branch.
Everli has changed a lot in the past years! Not only by growth in raw numbers, but structurally.
(And that’s not even mentioning external changes like new government regulations)
So imagine you’ve got some code. It’s readable, it met all the requirements, very elegant!
”Okay code, now meet the real world.”
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It was Monday, 1st of July, 2019. I’d recently traveled from the Portuguese island of Madeira to the sweltering inland heat of Verona in the north of Italy.
The objective of my trip was to join Supermercato24: a relatively new, small startup with big ambitions.
I was feeling conflicted.
On the one hand, the interview process had been extensive, and I could feel the startup, go-getter, “move fast” energy I so desperately needed at the time. There were no red flags during the initial approach, and I felt like I had struck gold.
Continue reading “What on earth do I know about delivering groceries?”
Picture this: you are an Android dev, and a new feature needs to be implemented. It’s a small screen, fairly straightforward layout, some inputs, nothing fancy.
And here you are, on one screen you got the Figma document open, in the other screen your IDE. You see this new button, seems a little bit larger than what you have in the rest of the app. It’s probably just a minor mistake on the designer’s part. You decide to use the regular size for the button.
And here’s where the fun begins.
Continue reading “Design System Android – A Problematic Situation”Advertisement placement is a double-edged sword.
You would like to avoid ruining your fancy design, but at the same time, you could leverage advertisement content to foster discovery, and you might find new ways to scale your business.
You have to improve both customers’ and brands’ experience, as all things should be.
There is nothing worse than sharing an intrusive Ad that does not add value to the user.
An example? I am bald, so please don’t waste your money on advertising shampoos to me 🙂
Neither that long ago, nor that far, far away, but in this very blog, we talked about the first iteration of what we call Han Solo, or, in other words, the Feed Processor.
This is a follow-up to that previous post, and a main course is best served after the entree. However, we’ll try to make so the appetizer will suffice.
Continue reading “Han Solo: Multiprocessing Strikes Back”Do you remember our project: “Uppy” ? Here’s our previous article! It has grown and now also the backend is open source!
It took some time in making it ready for the public but, the very heart of the project is now open on Github for everybody to perform surgery on! 💉 😜
Go grab it here: github.com/everli/uppy
Of course, it’s fully dockerized and running it locally or on premises is just a breeze plus it follows the standard Laravel guidelines so that you can feel at home from the beginning.
During this time we added also a few new features that made our PM(s) really happy, let us know what you think of:
Continue reading “Uppy Updates!”Some questions that anyone using Everli might wonder about: how do we get all the products onto the web and mobile apps? And how do we keep our catalog and prices daily updated?
This process has taken a bit of work and, for now, a couple of iterations. In this post, we’ll focus on the first iteration. Let’s try to shed some light on it!
Our mission is to provide the best catalog for our users with the most accurate prices, item details and availability.
Continue reading “Han Solo: a Feed Processing Story”Here we go again.
This is the third episode of our series on how we are ingesting retailers’ data for our beloved customers.
If you did not read our previous post about this topic, consider spending a few minutes catching up on it.
In the following paragraphs, we will show you how our new process to update the assortment of our stores works and our journey to get there.
In the previous episode, we showed you how we reached coordination in our price update flow. We achieved it by the mean of a semaphore stored on Redis: each time it gets accessed, we decrease its value. Once it reaches 0, the next stage of our pipeline begins.
We also covered our Conversion Optimizer, a machine learning algorithm.
As soon as prices are updated, the next step of our pipeline can start.
Continue reading “A Brief History of Price Updates (Part 3)”It’s difficult to get a real sense of what it’s like to work for a company from just reading the job description or researching the product. We wanted to give a deeper, more personal insight into working at Everli, something that covers more than just the tasks and tech. Mihai Tuhari is one of our Tech Leads who has been with us for almost 5 years. We spoke with him about a whole host of topics, including his career journey so far, and why he’s going to be Everli’s most annoying Romanian customer. Ever.
Mihai is 33 years old and lives in his hometown of Bucharest, he started with Everli back in 2017 and is considered one of our pioneers of remote work. He’s self-taught, having started coding aged 15, and has worked remotely for companies as far flung as Australia.
Continue reading “Working at Everli according to Tech Lead, Mihai Tuhari: A Pioneer of Remote Work”