How we develop

We are a fast-paced company, and by that, I mean that we can deliver a good amount of value for our clients fast enough. What I don’t mean is that we rush into things, or we overwork. It’s quite the contrary, we take the time needed to do the right thing. The catch here is that we value agility over…

Coding fermentation

For all the metaphors for code I think this is not a very common one. But it’s one I think that makes a lot of sense and I want to explain why.

So first, fermentation. The basic thing for fermentation is that you have something in the beginning, let it sit for a…

Remote work

Since the beginning of Covid-19 in 2020 the whole metr has been working from home, and here I will talk specifically about the experience of the tech team. We were a very office-based team before, so moving to a remote environment wasn’t that straightforward, but we took the opportunity to try and get the…

On pair-programming

I’ve been with metr for a year now working as a software engineer, focusing on backend and infrastructure. Among the many things new and surprising about the industry itself, the tech stack and the team, one that really stuck out and has been living in my head ever since is pair-programming. I…

Use cases as code

At metr we have a few solutions for building management, like submetering and heating systems monitoring and more to come, and at the core of all that is our m-gate. The m-gate is what we call a multipurpose gateway and it’s called that because the same gateway can provide data for all those…

Getting away from code comments

Code comments: A topic that people love to hate.

I’m on the side that doesn’t like them. Being a Python developer who codes based on The Zen of Python and I specially like the Readability counts. part, having…