Coffee doesn't fuel only code: articles by developers for developers
Have you ever dreamt going in a supermarket and finding all your favorite products ready for you on a single shelf?
Are you the kind of person who’d like to get the grocery done as fast as possible, and move onto more interesting stuffs?
Or would you like finding all the things you usually buy ready for you, and spend more time exploring offers and new products?
Continue reading “Everli Cart Assistant”
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?”
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”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 was over two years ago when I joined Everli. Besides usual duties, I was given the tremendous opportunity to migrate the frontend of a complex e-commerce system from Angular to Vue. It’s this type of a challenge you wait most of your life as a developer to be able to use all of your past experience and build something new and as close to “perfection” as it can be.
The most crucial requirement, at that time, was to avoid big rollouts and make every release as much valuable and smooth as possible. Back then, It sounded pretty complex, but it was vital for the company, which was about to double the number of users in the next months. We were growing fast, and new markets were about to be conquered. With my buddy Nicola, we decided to take the small steps and take the pressure off our shoulders by replacing Angular with Vue bit by bit.
Continue reading “The story of migration from Angular to Vue (Part 1)”
We have.
Everli iOS apps get new amazing features every week, constantly growing bigger and more complex, this makes Xcode build times grow proportionally.
Of course, one solution might be to regularly update your hardware, but here we’re going to talk about a free software alternative to that. In the Everli iOS team, we decided to give PodBuilder a spin, and we did right.
Continue reading “Ever dreamt of faster Xcode builds?”DISCLAIMER: this article is the transcription of an internal talk.
You can find the presentation here.
In Everli we have recurring internal moments that we use for sharing knowledge, as you could see from the previous post.
We are going to integrate the key points of the book we are reviewing as we move forward and then we are going to share our learnings and outcomes.