SafetyCulture has a microservice architecture deployed on Kubernetes (AWS EKS). When we started this architecture all our services were written, predominantly, in Node.js. In the early days of our product, Node.js was great; it allowed teams to build services quickly and share a lot of common libraries. …

“gRPC-Web clients connect to gRPC services via a special gateway proxy: the current version of the library uses Envoy by default, in which gRPC-Web support is built-in.” — official gRPC-Web docs. For production we can just enable the envoy.grpc_web filter and we are good to go. But for development I…

One of the huge benefits of using gRPC is the ability to autogenerate our client and server stubs from the protocol buffer definitions. In the same way, we can we generate our own code by building a plugin for the protocol buffer compiler (protoc). The plugin we’re creating is going…

Tech talk for Sydney University Computing Society (SYNCS) Presentation slides are available here.

In the beginning: Apollo Server When it comes to building a graphQL server, almost everyone looks to Apollo Server; we were no different. Apollo allowed us to get a graphQL server up and running really quickly. We loved being able to return mock data almost instantly to our mobile/frontend engineers. Our graphQL server began to grow At SafetyCulture we have a…

Welcome gifts are not the norm in the world of Airbnb and, as a host, there’s definitely no expectation that you leave one. Of course, this is exactly what makes a welcome gift such a powerful gesture and strong predictor of a glowing review: it creates a wonderful first impression. …