Gal Maoz·Jun 15, 2021Android Game Development By HandA while back, our teams at Gett had an awesome in-house Hackathon, so we had a chance to explore some interesting ideas to improve Gett’s ride-hailing app and rider experience. My team’s idea was to improve the rider experience while they wait to be matched with an available taxi, as…Android8 min read
Shai Mishali·Mar 1, 2021Engineering Hackathon in the world of COVID-19The past year has been challenging in so many ways. COVID-19 forced us all to thrive working remotely, for both our customers and our own employees. During this past year, most of modern society inevitably adapted to the situation. Work/life balance At Gett, we also adapted and introduced Gett Flexi so our…Hackathons5 min read
Lior Avni·Apr 10, 2020Managing major incidents from home — What I learned from Mission ImpossibleFull disclosure — I am not Tom Cruise (Shocker, I know 🙃). What I am, is an Incident manager, who, not unlike Ethan hunt (portrayed by the mighty Tom), also has to deal with uncertainties in life and surprises. All the more in this day and age where COVID-19 forced…Incident Management5 min read
Maya Gilad·Feb 6, 2020Handling rare categorical values in Pandas 🐼Transforming rare categorical values into “Other” with a single line of code — When working with categorical features, a common approach is to use one-hot-encoding and create a binary feature for each possible category. For example:Data Science4 min read
Lior Avni·Jan 23, 2020Show me the money! — Monitoring Production the “Jerry Maguire” wayEvery Escalation engineer knows this simple truth — “if you find it faster, you will solve it faster” (“it” being the incident you want to avoid). …Incident Management5 min read
Alon Abadi·Dec 31, 2019Error Handling in Go 1.13Keep up with the latest additions in Go error handling — This post is part of the “Before you go Go” series, where we explore the world of Golang, provide tips and insights you should know when writing Go, so you don’t have to learn them the hard way. The last time we visited this topic, we explained some core concepts…Golang5 min read
Lior Avni·Nov 7, 2019Scientia Potentia Est — Knowledge Is PowerOne of my favorite proverbs of all times is this: “Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for life” (Attributed to Maimonides, 12th century A.D). Why do I like this proverb so much? Because it embodies…Engineering5 min read
Lior Avni·Jul 11, 2019The importance of Proactive Service MonitoringWhen I started my journey in the IT world, my badge bore the motto of the company that saw fit to grant me this opportunity (Comverse technologies, you are forever in my mind 😃): “Our goal is to meet or exceed our customers’ expectations”. Take a moment and think about…Dev Ops5 min read
Shai Mishali·Jun 6, 2019RxSwift to Apple’s Combine “Cheat Sheet”Get started with Apple’s Combine with your existing RxSwift knowledge — Update: This cheatsheet is available as a Markdown table, as well as searchable CSV tables in the following repo: https://github.com/freak4pc/rxswift-to-combine-cheatsheet. Thanks Joe Blau for the help and inspiration! Update 2: I’ve released a library called RxCombine which provides a proof-of-concept for Bi-directional type bridging between RxSwift and Apple’s combine, letting…Rxswift3 min read
Lior Avni·May 30, 2019A “Fire” Incident case studyHere at Gett, we have several degrees for production environment related issues: 🔨 Trivial: A small issue that affects the occasional user in a remote aspect of the application ⚠️ Medium: slightly more inconvenient, but not business disrupting ❗️ Critical: a potentially business affecting issue if not treated within the…Dev Ops4 min read
