carwow Product, Design & Engineering

Christian Gregg

Dec 13

Elm and Vue.js from a frontend perspective

A brief comparison on using a JavaScript framework and a functional language for building UI on the web

Gavin Kemp

Oct 18

Engineering Management as a Socratic Dialogue

This is an attempt to explain the role of engineering management with Socratic dialogue.

Vrashabh Irde

Oct 4

Levelling Up Feature Flags at carwow

Flags and Rollouts and Tests, Oh My!

Luke Williams

Sep 27

UK License plate recognition using react native

Here at carwow, we started developing a mobile app using react native. One of the features of the app is the `car checker`, which is…

Ayat Abdel-Fattah

Sep 20

A beginner’s approach to fixing PostgreSQL timeouts

This is the beginning of a series of blogs on my attempts to fix PostgresSQL timeouts using the EXPLAIN and ANALYZE functions

Chidi Egwuonwu

Sep 13

Let’s make some noise!

A journey through procedural terrain generation using Perlin noise

Stepan Khodzhaian

Sep 6

Five lessons I learned building a design system

Through building and maintaining a design system, we identified the key principles to make it impactful for engineering, design and product

Vincent Navetat

Aug 30

Emoji Driven Development in Ruby

Let’s take a look at how Emojis can not only brighten up your text messages, but also your Ruby code 🌈

Tom Lord

Aug 22

🚀 Speeding up our Heroku deploys by ~35%

Speeding up our CI/CD pipeline by precompiling Heroku slugs

Christian Gregg

Aug 15

Series: Making data structures in elm

Recently, I was looking for resources to work on my elm skills, and I came across a couple of great talks by Richard Feldman.

Steven Hamilton

Aug 9

The story behind Hullabaloo, an unconference for engineering leadership

The story behind Hullabaloo, an unconference for engineering leader...

Last month saw the second edition of our engineering and leadership un-conference, which we’ve now rebranded as hullabaloo.

Akash Bhalla

May 3

Getting a bit Rusty

I’m not writing in Rust on a daily basis, but I have been very excited about it for a while. Rust is an extremely performant, powerful…

Stepan Khodzhaian

Apr 18

Engineering Progression at carwow

There’s a lot written about career ladders and how different companies have done it. This is the first article in the series of how we…

Vrashabh Irde

Feb 8

Help yourself to better 1:1s

This is the first article in the series “Effective 1:1s” by carwow engineering.

Vrashabh Irde

Jan 16

Advent of Code Goes 8-bit

Creating a universe in PICO-8

Dan Rees-Jones

Dec 21, 2018

Building better product: a matter of principle

At carwow, we believe following your principles will help you be a better product manager, a better team and build better product.

Gary Robinson

Dec 16, 2018

Styling an Elm application without CSS

As much as I love CSS for its creative potential, it seems impossible not to feel a lot of pain when it comes to scaling it. At carwow…

Vincent Navetat

Nov 29, 2018

debugging your team

A good leadership team thinks of their role as managers of a system, rather than individuals.

Akash Bhalla

Nov 2, 2018

carwow Product, Design & Engineering

What happens under the hood of carwow.co.uk

🌒 Shadow requesting for great good

Elm and Vue.js from a frontend perspective

Engineering Management as a Socratic Dialogue

Levelling Up Feature Flags at carwow

UK License plate recognition using react native

A beginner’s approach to fixing PostgreSQL timeouts

Let’s make some noise!

Five lessons I learned building a design system

Emoji Driven Development in Ruby

🚀 Speeding up our Heroku deploys by ~35%

Series: Making data structures in elm

The story behind Hullabaloo, an unconference for engineering leader...

Getting a bit Rusty

Engineering Progression at carwow

Help yourself to better 1:1s

Advent of Code Goes 8-bit

Building better product: a matter of principle

Styling an Elm application without CSS

debugging your team