Syrmo’s backend stack: Why we chose Parse as our BaaS solution?

This is the first post of the series about the technology behind Syrmo. The choices we made, the good, the bad and the ugly.

tl; dr

Tips for better refactoring in Swift

One of the things I like the most about the Swift programming language is its type system. I think it has a good balance between “main stream / industrial” languages and more academic ones. Which makes it really approachable for new developers but also gives the…

Avoiding bugs and improving documentation through the type system

How to avoiding bugs and improve documentation by using the type system

Always try to reduce functions and methods domain. Improve documentation by using narrower types which enforce…

Message forwarding in Swift

One of the features I really liked about Ruby that is also present in Objective-C is the ability to forward messages.

In Ruby you can use the Forwardable module

class LineItem
  extend Forwardable
 
  def_delegators :@product…

A short guide for IoT startups

I was asked to give a talk targeted to investor that didn’t have experience investing in IoT startups. Although I’m far from being an expert on the subject I think I have some notes I can share after 3 years of working on a hardware startup.