At ASOS there’s an ever increasing demand to run experiments at scale in our mobile apps. Spotting an opportunity to improve current processes, where we had to manually implement and release each experiment individually, we built a custom “Url Injection Framework” which makes it possible to implement configuration-driven experiments that can modify any API call or network request without requiring app changes and releases.

Developing a game is a challenge on its own, and more so if you do it as a side project while working a full-time job. And maybe have a family. This is my story for Yuppy, a collection of mini educational games for iOS and Android. …

Legendary Scott Guthrie, Scott Hanselman and others offer a recap and present new things in Visual Studio, Azure, database services, Power BI, artificial intelligence and cognitive services and more. At the beginning of May, Microsoft held their regular Build conference, in which they remind developers about all the great products…

What’s new in Android, machine learning and TensorFlow, the web platform, Firebase, Google Assistant and Flutter This article provides a quick bulleted list of all announcements made at the Google IO 2019 Tech Keynote, which you can watch in full here: Every bullet point has a timestamp, so that…

Having created my first app using Flutter, I weigh up the technology’s pros and cons against the other big cross-platform development contender — React Native — This time last year I published an article with my impressions of React Native, which was all the rage in 2016 and 2017, with companies such as Facebook, Instagram, Tesla, Walmart, Airbnb, Skype and more investigating it, or even actually implementing apps (or subsections) with it.

A summary of Marco Montemagno’s best videos about entrepreneurship and growth — Marco Montemagno is a digital entrepreneur and broadcaster. He created and sold the biggest blogs network in Italy (Blogosfere), worked for Sky TV, hosted plenty of interviews with CEOs (eg: Steve Ballmer and Jeff Bezos) and big names in the tech/video industry (eg: Marquest Brownlee), wrote a book, founded a…

The article shows how to implement an architecture where Azure Service Bus receives messages to signal a product going out of stock or coming back into stock, which would trigger an Azure Function to send push notifications to clients that subscribed to ‘back-in-stock’ events for the affected products. — A modern e-commerce website based on the microservices architecture is probably powered by a variety of different services and APIs: Promotions, Customers, Product Catalog, Search, Checkout, Recommendations, Order Processing and potentially many more pieces. These services can communicate between each other by direct API calls, if they need an immediate…

A live page with raw notes about Azure services that I happen to use, read about or am just interested in. — This page will grow and change over time. It’s not meant to be “documentation”, but rather a quick list of important notes and high-level concepts that I wrote down for myself, in pretty much random order. …

What’s so special about Ethereum, in comparison to Bitcoin? How to write a Smart Contract with Solidity, and what are its constraints and workarounds? How much do transactions cost, and what are gas and gas price? And finally…how can a developer make money with this? — This is a multi-part article. Here are the links to the other parts: Part 1: What is a blockchain and how does it work? Part 3: Deploying the backend of a DApp: Geth, Mist and Truffle