Stories from the Kudos Engineering team

If you have worked according to the agile development methodology then you will most likely already be familiar with spikes. A ‘spike’ can…

I think I went through all the phases a graphic designer can go throughout their career, as technology and (trendy) titles changes over…

Fire drills are a familiar concept to anyone who has ever worked in an office. Periodically the fire alarm will start to blare and a few…

When designing a new service for production, the architecture can get complicated pretty quickly especially when striving to build highly…

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Every few months the Kudos Product and Engineering teams have a hack day away from the office.

The Kudos Agile/Scrum/Task tool of choice is Pivotal Tracker. Quite a few of the team had worked with other tools, such as Jira in the…

Over a long summer break from university, I spent 7 weeks interning at Kudos. Here is a quick overview of what I got up to.

Recently, Let’s Encrypt released their wildcard certificates into the, well, wild. We have been breaking our monolith into a cluster of…

With a set of features on the horizon that required time series data, and the need to improve our existing features that already used time…

As the newest member of the Kudos engineering team, here is my experience from the first day through to three months later.

If you’ve been experimenting with CI/CD pipeline tools like Travis, Codeship and Jenkins then you might want to give Google Container…

Managing configuration values is always an issue. First you will ask “Will this value ever be different on development/live/etc?” if so, it…

In this post, we assume the reader has the Go language already setup on their system. If not, see golang.org.

Known to our team as ‘The Woff’ (like a knock-off version of ‘The Hoff’, a mispronunciation of it’s acronym), Amazon’s Web Application…