Practo Engineering

Redirecting queries to Slave Database

Master-Slave Databases are a common configuration of databases considering it allows…

Launching Worker Pod Autoscaler — Solving specific problems with worker scaling in Kubernetes

Serverless flows with Step Functions

Serverless paradigm is taking Iaas (Infrastructure as a Service) to the next level in the form of Faas (Function as a Service). Its gaining popularity is because of the many benefits that comes with it, like, cost reduction — because you only pay for the amount of…

Track Android uninstalls for less than $1 a month

It takes a lot of efforts and time to build and…

Connecting you to The best Doctor in 60 seconds: Demystifying Practo Consult

You felt a sudden surge…

Inter-service authentication and the need for decentralised shared key exchange

How MVVM helped us run A/B tests quicker

One of the quickest ways to test your app designs with the least amount of conclusive…

Function Overloading in Python

Recently in one of the conversations at Practo, I found some guys complaining that its so bad that we do not have function overloading in Python. This is due to numerous articles and blogs around which claim that Python does not support function overloading. This will be…

Testing Redux-Sagas with a plan.

Why Saga Testing and how?

Redux Saga is a library that aims…