A brief story of how open-source software helped us to reduce 10 times our payload and scale image serving at heycar A little bit of context The basic infrastructure at heycar was built in 6 weeks. Of course, at that time it was a very raw platform, despite that was a huge achievement. Our core…

We still live in an era where most of the computer behavior is dictated by human generated code. One of biggest errors one can make is to assume that such code is bullet proof based of the myths that people take for granted e.g.: …

A report of a 5+ years experience as team member Being part of a development team can be a hard task sometimes, mostly because of requirements changes, pressure, and deadlines. There are several actions that can be taken to manage the different impacts of the challenges in this dangerous environment. …

> DISCLAIMER: This article was created several years ago, it’s not the most up to date reference for such content If you code for the web, you probably work with databases, which leads you to integrate, setup and most importantly understand how a database works. Let us say at some…

Every quarter at Globo.com, the whole company stops to promote a “Hackday”. Basically, 24 hours that we can free our minds from daily problems and code that cool idea we had on that beautiful Monday afternoon. This quarter we created a POC (proof of concept) of a recommendation system based…

Behind every worldwide event there is always a new invention providing the means so the human kind can change the course of the nature as they like. Not any different, multiplexed systems had a very special role in the human history. Most of the times unnoticed by the untrained eye…

The constant growth of technology creates a huge demand for business oriented programmers to support corporate software. This demand and the potential of good salaries frequently influence a lot of people to change the course of their careers in order to become software developers. Do all of these developers need…