Dave AllieinVisibuild Product TeamWhy startups are career acceleratorsStartups are fast-moving versions of their (much) older relatives — big corporates (or as our CPO Shaun likes to say, “hella corps”)…Jul 26, 2022Jul 26, 2022
Dave AllieULIDs and Primary KeysWhen it comes to picking the type for your database’s primary keys, there are a few divided camps. When making this decision for Visibuild…Feb 15, 2022Feb 15, 2022
Dave AllieSo long, AmazonThis month was my last at Amazon. I’m sad to be leaving, but thankful for everything I’ve learnt along the way.Jul 30, 2021Jul 30, 2021
Dave AllieinTanda Product TeamPreventing erroneous Rails migrationsAt Tanda, we’ve never really had a smooth ride with migrations, a medium-sized development team, and shared development resources (such as…Jun 22, 2019Jun 22, 2019
Dave AllieRustyboy — Part 1: Welcome to Emulation StationI’ve seen a fair spread of emulators over the last 10 or so years and played around with a fair few of them as well (if you weren’t…Apr 27, 2019Apr 27, 2019
Dave AllieStealing Fuel DataA little over a year ago, I discovered that the ACCC (Australian Competitor and Consumer Commission) reports on fuel costs in the major…Apr 19, 20196Apr 19, 20196
Dave AllieGrapple — An actual interruptable download acceleratorA bit ago I needed to pull some large binary files down from a remote server and, at the time, had an extremely spotty internet connection…Sep 12, 2018Sep 12, 2018
Dave AllieinTanda Product TeamTanda Student Clubs PromiseAt Tanda we love student clubs. Tanda was born out of a student club at QUT where our four founders met. As we’ve grown the business, we’ve…Apr 25, 2018Apr 25, 2018
Dave AllieinTanda Product TeamBrisbane Tanda Hackathon 2018Last weekend was the annual Tanda Brisbane Hackathon, our fifth and largest hackathon event in 4 years. With 160 tickets sold and the…Apr 24, 2018Apr 24, 2018
Dave AllieinTanda Product TeamHow we sped up our asset precompile by removing itIt seems like every time I look back at our build pipeline our builds are taking longer and longer to go from commit to being out in the…Jun 12, 20171Jun 12, 20171