The very first TechUncovered event focused on the challenges of building and scaling engineering teams, career development, and maturing processes. Scaling tech teams is not a simple task, it's tough work. As we witness the Prague startup scene constantly growing and getting more and more into the scaleup stage, we
In Mews we often use phrases like `bring hotels to the 21st century` or `join the revolution` of the hospitality industry. One of our T-shirts has the catchphrase `Automate this!`. What differentiates Mews from most other companies is the way we truly mean what we say. Even internally. Hell, mostly
Everybody in tech world understands CI as continuous integration, but the other and maybe even more important meaning of this abbreviation is continuous improvement. It is easy to say that we encourage progress and learning, but as people get overwhelmed with daily tasks, these more abstract goals are pushed to
In Mews, on our journey towards continuous product delivery, we faced an unanticipated, but really important issue for our customers; promptly informing them about updates and new features of the system, also known as "release notes". Solving this became a precondition for us going full steam ahead with continuous delivery.
In Mews, we are big fans of code review. Not only because it prevents bugs, but also it serves as a natural place for information sharing. For newcomers, it's the easiest way how to quickly get a picture of what's currently being worked on and how other developers solve their
You've probably been there. Deploying your app to production, you might even have backend error logs setup, but whenever there is a javascript error, you wait for your customers to report it. And you should not. At Mews, we rely heavily on monitoring and automated error reporting. We use LogEntries
