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”)…5 min read·Jul 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…10 min read·Feb 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.7 min read·Jul 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…4 min read·Jun 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…5 min read·Apr 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…10 min read·Apr 19, 2019--6--6
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…5 min read·Sep 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…2 min read·Apr 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…4 min read·Apr 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…7 min read·Jun 12, 2017--1--1