Let’s start with why? In 2019, I was the manager of the mobile team at Spendesk. The app handles budget and expense management for teams and employees. The mobile app was first developed in React Native as a Proof of Concept. The codebase was shared for both iOS and Android…

Should you consider GraphQL? — Are you wondering if you should use GraphQL in your project? Do your developers fight over arguments like “GraphQL is the future” and “REST is just simpler”? I had endless discussions with my team that I will summarize here. Disclaimer: GraphQL is trendy, and…

Have you ever wonder what happens inside of an Amazon warehouse? As a software engineer, the supply chain field has plenty of technical challenges like running one of the largest catalogs in the world, associated with one of the biggest inventory. Amazon owns hundreds of Fulfillment Centers (FC) that contain…

10 actionable piece of advice to make your writing impactful that I learned from my 5 years at Amazon. Why? Gutenberg’s mechanical press (invented in 1440) could print 3600 pages per day compared to 40 pages with handwriting (90 times more). The internet revolution reinforced writing and despite the growing usage…

As a manager, if you struggle with the transition to full remote since the lockdown, you are not the only one, and this article will give you one tool to cope with the distance. A common fear is to lose touch with the team. The nagging question remains: How to…

A journey from javascript to C++. — I had to settle a performance discussion within my team. Because of a simple PR, I started a 2 weeks journey in the dark twists and turns of javascript. To save you a lot of pain and frustrating questions, I sum up my research in this really long post. …

If you are not sure what a Doorknob phenomenon is, you probably want to keep reading. Either you’ve seen it before and didn’t act properly, or worse you just missed it. “Doctor, I forgot to tell you” In Clinical practices, this phenomenon occurs when patients wait until the last moment — usually when the physician is…

Have you ever been in a meeting to add a feature to the product, and the meeting evolves into an endless debate in front of a 20 feet wide diagram of the architecture with arrows pointing in all directions? If you’ve never seen that, don’t worry it will come. That’s…

Last month, I was watching a famous culinary show, where contestants have to cook a dish given a limited set of ingredients. I was wondering how they could be so creative? How did they get the idea to try such unexpected combinations? Then Paris was placed in lockdown to fight…