As software engineers we practice writing code almost daily, but we don’t often get to build or design whole new systems. However, a lot of the time, it’s easy for engineers to do what they already know, with the systems they are familiar with. With this in mind, Moonpig teams…

Every year at their annual developer conference, Re:Invent, AWS announces a whole range of new services and updates to existing services. At Moonpig this provides us with exciting new possibilities to simplify the code we run, offer us cheaper ways of operating on the cloud and the ability to provide…

The Moonpig Android Team uses an Acceptance Test Driven Development (ATDD) approach to building features on the Android app. In this piece I will take you through an approach to ATDD on Android. Why ATDD? ATDD is important to our team because it helps developers build features ‘right’. By right…

Why Federation In this series of blog posts we share Moonpig’s journey to start using GraphQL. In part 1 we talked about why we decided to use GraphQL. Part 2 covered our experiences of the schema stitching paradigm. …

In this series of blog posts we share Moonpig’s journey to start using GraphQL. In part 1 we talked about why we decided to use GraphQL. …

In this series of blog posts, we share Moonpig’s journey to start using GraphQL. This part will explain why GraphQL and why we transition from REST to GraphQL. At Moonpig we decided to embrace GraphQL when we considered which technologies to use in our re-platforming project at the beginning of…

In January I was an online English teacher, teaching students from all over China. When the Coronavirus hit Wuhan I saw the pandemic unfold through daily updates from my students, but I felt safe in my Manchester living room in a good (2m+) distance from the virus. …

In this article I will talk about how a high-performance engineering team at Moonpig adapted to a remote working environment, whilst they improved their ways of working, and continued to deliver on improving the experience we provide to our customers. Moonpig Engineering consists of teams of people with complementary skill…

Hello, I am a developer on the Editor Team at Moonpig and we are currently working on replacing our 7 year old editor tool. If you aren’t familiar with what we do at Moonpig, we provide customers the ability to purchase and personalise cards or gifts for loved ones. …