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Mobile
Another app migrated to Flutter
As you probably know, we have an app in Flutter that has been successfully running in production for more than 2 years now. But we also have another app, a Kiosk application written natively in Kotlin and available for Android only. It was available, actually, as we decided to migrate
Frontend
Why we should all be testing our Typescript types
What a silly idea, to test types, right? You never hear about testing types in languages like C# or Dart, so why should TypeScript be any different? Because it is different. Don’t get me wrong... TypeScript is still one of the best things that’s happened to JavaScript. But
Data
How to effortlessly unlock the data in your data lake
Do you understand the usage of your products and how new features are being adopted? Can your product teams really make data-driven decisions? Does your team know how users are using or even misusing your product? The goal is to give our product teams the right set of tools to
Community
We’re all capable of doing good, so let's do it right
“Everyone can help - not everyone realizes it, though.” Here, I’m quoting myself, Community Manager at Mews. Not because I believe there’s no one more suitable than myself to quote, but because I’ve been able to contribute to the common good as part of my current role,
QA
6 problems, 1 solution: why acceptance criteria are important
Working as a QA engineer, I try to optimize my time the best way possible. Even though sometimes it’s hard to handle multitasking, there are certain ways to get things done within a planned time limit that can help tremendously. In the Mews tech world, we use Agile, so
Engineering
We took the Pragmatic Engineer Test. This is the result.
If I were a software engineer nowadays, I'd surely want to know how the company I'm about to join stands in this test. We participated in the survey, but it might be valuable to elaborate on our answers and give more details so that it is not just a single number.
Backend
Types First
Have you ever come across a piece of code wrapped in seemingly random validation conditions? Consider this example: public void SaveNewCustomer(string firstName, string lastName, string email) { if (string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(lastName)) { throw new ArgumentException("Last name is required"); } if (string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(email)) { throw new ArgumentException("Invalid email"); } var customer = new
Leadership
Gaining a sense of accomplishment as a manager
Do you often feel like you got nothing done by the end of the day? That you lack any sense of accomplishment, which you had as an individual contributor, but now cannot find as a manager? That you approach things reactively instead of proactively? That you are not feeling in
Engineering
How has Mews made me a better developer (even before I joined)
“Well, this is interesting!” I silently uttered to myself as I was digging deeper into a topic that now, after the experience, I think anybody who’s serious about software development should learn. Yet, if it wasn’t for my interview at Mews, which incentivized me and inspired me to
Backend
How we selected infrastructure as code tool that is the best fit for us
Why define infrastructure through code?There is a lot of chatter lately about infrastructure as code in the Cloud engineers/DevOps community, but one should not get hyped up about the latest technology/framework/library and invest time and resources into it right away. That could easily turn into a