Alex GhiculescuI’m writing again!For a while I forgot I used to write on Medium quite a bit and some people subscribed to it. Thanks for reading.Apr 23, 2023Apr 23, 2023
Alex GhiculescuinTanda Product TeamRails teams, what are you meant to do with structure.sql?One of the big unsolved mysteries about building a Rails app in a team — at least, in my team — is what you should do about the…Sep 12, 20183Sep 12, 20183
Alex GhiculescuinTanda Product TeamThe only reason to build software is to sell itWhen we were a small young company, this quote went unsaid and was probably fairly obvious, because we had no other option. If we couldn’t…Jul 19, 20181Jul 19, 20181
Alex GhiculescuinTanda Product TeamAntifragility and git flowAntifragility is a concept coined by author Nassim Nicholas Taleb to describe things that benefit from randomness, chaos, or disorder. As…Jul 11, 2018Jul 11, 2018
Alex GhiculescuinTanda Product Team5 things you should forget when you finish uniIt’s that time of the year again when a whole bunch of students are finishing uni, and a bunch more are looking forward to spending the…May 29, 20183May 29, 20183
Alex GhiculescuinTanda Product TeamWhat do you do here? (Growth Gang edition)From the outside looking in, it’s sometimes hard to know what everyone at a software as a service company actually does. Tanda employs over…May 1, 2018May 1, 2018
Alex GhiculescuinTanda Product TeamTop secret career tip: tell people what you want to achieveI recently announced a fairly significant change to our team structure. One of our engineers, let’s call him Declan, is going to move to…Apr 23, 2018Apr 23, 2018
Alex GhiculescuinTanda Product TeamLooking back on 4 years of HackathonsNext weekend is the 5th Tanda Hackathon, and the 4th in Brisbane. This year Tanda’s CTO, Dave Allie, has taken over the reigns in running…Apr 13, 2018Apr 13, 2018
Alex GhiculescuinTanda Product TeamWhy is Postgres BETWEEN so slow?We recently started using PGanalyze, which is amazing. Today I spent some time trying to speed up some of the slowest queries in Tanda. The…Dec 27, 20172Dec 27, 20172
Alex GhiculescuinTanda Product TeamMy Tanda Hack LyfThis guest post was written by Harris Jubb, a participant at the 2017 Tanda Hackathon.Nov 16, 2017Nov 16, 2017