Nobody would call me crazy if I state that most companies, that have reached a certain size, have moved from monolith to microservices (and very few of those probably challenged the decision). This story starts in one of those companies. In the past years, I have been heavily focused on…

Everything You Always Wanted to Know About DORA in mobile* (*But Were Afraid to Ask) — Intro A few years ago the Google SRE team presented the DORA key metrics to measure the performance of a software engineering team. Last year they introduced a fifth one (reliability). This caused great enthusiasm in the industry, and multiple companies started to follow them. However these metrics are highly oriented…

STEM Day is celebrated every year on November 8th to encourage young people to explore science, technology, engineering, and math education programs. We spoke to a few employees working in the Glovo tech department, asking about how they started their careers, interests, and achievements in STEM. Sena Sanioglu, Sr Software…

Why? As Glovo was experiencing rapid growth, we started to expand to new verticals and release more features, which led us to have to develop a lot more new user interfaces. It involved many engineers and different teams. …

By Jorge Agudo Praena and Narek Verdian. Glovo is a multicategory delivery platform with a presence in more than 1500 cities in 25 countries, and since mid-2022 is part of Delivery Hero. It is the fastest-growing multicategory player in Europe, Western Asia, and Africa with technology at the core of…

Hi, I’m Javier Rodríguez and I joined Glovo as a Junior Software Engineer this July. I’m part of the logistics cluster, helping to improve the app for the couriers. …

Part 2: Segmentation system design In part 1, we talked about the customer segmentation needs at Glovo and why we need to customize the customer’s UX. For example, we needed to target specific audiences for certain discounts. We also discussed the need to separate the segment’s calculations task from the segment’s restful API. …

Part 1: What is segmentation and why do we need it? Business context Glovo orchestrates a variety of discount campaigns. Before the Segmentation Service, these campaigns targeted our entire customer base, regardless of individual customer behavior or preference. For Glovo and its partners, this was highly inefficient in terms of budget and ROI, limiting customer acquisition, retention, and overall customer experience. We didn’t…

Within my team, we like to challenge each other, question things and enforce a pragmatic, hands-on approach. Therefore, it was no surprise the following conversation started on Slack: Just a bit side-off discussion — what kind of benefits does the package-private give? I mean more specific than “better encapsulation”. More…