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Jan 14, 2018

Migrating from Buddybuild to Bitrise

At the start of the year Apple announced their acquisition of Buddybuild, along with the news that Android support would end by March. This meant we had to find an alternative quickly, and Bitrise was our eventual choice. Here’s why, and how we switched.

Maria Neumayer

Dec 5, 2017

How to introduce Kotlin in your codebase

Kotlin was the big topic of the year in the Android community. Many of us are talking about it or have started using it. In this blog post I will share a few tips and tricks we’ve learned while converting our application to Kotlin.

Reset, Rebase Workflow

Rebase is one of git’s most powerful features. Most-commonly used to rewrite history by squashing related commits, and…

@DeliverooEng

Jun 14, 2017

Data Sink

Posted by Ivan Pirlik on Thursday, June 15, 2017

Our applications generate a lot of interesting data, but it’s not always simple to find the right way to collect it. We wanted to make it easier, so we went to the drawing board, and here’s what we’ve come up with.

How to un-rickroll yourself

A story of how leaving your laptop unlocked can lose the entire morning.

This post is a warning to the dangers of forgetting to lock your laptop in an environment where:

Leaving your laptop unlocked is discouraged by a culture of…

@DeliverooEng

Mar 26, 2017

Every service is an island

Posted by Julien Letessier on Monday, March 27, 2017

We had an incident yesterday. It wasn’t that bad as incidents go, but it got me really worried — it’s something that has the potential to become much worse as we move towards a distributed, multi-service…

@DeliverooEng

Mar 12, 2017

Scaling Rails 3.old

Posted by Michael Groble on Monday, March 13, 2017

We’re not particularly proud that we are still using Rails 3.2, but we are extremely proud of scaling our traffic over the last few years. Our new services are built in Rails 5, but we still have a hefty chunk of…

@DeliverooEng

Jan 18, 2017

Optimising Redis storage, part two

Posted by Julien Letessier on Thursday, January 19, 2017

Counting unique users, checking if a credit card has already been used, or checking if this is a mobile user’s first visit ever — all of these require maintaining a large set of…

Evelina Vrabie

Jan 2, 2017

What it’s like to be an Android developer at Deliveroo

Posted by Evelina Vrabie on Tuesday, January 3, 2017

I’ve been with Deliveroo for over a year now, so it’s a good time to share what it’s like to be an Android developer here, how we do development, what tools…

Kriselda

Dec 23, 2016

The Unbearable Rightness of Being Wrong (A Programmer’s Guide to Sanity)

Earlier this year, some awesome people who “read and write Ruby good” met at an event called RailsConf and delivered this poignant tweet in a bottle: