Slido developers blog

A lot can change in three years. Three years ago Analytics Engineering was a niche role, Slido was not part of Cisco, and our masks were…

If you’re a graduate searching for a job, a professional considering a career change, or simply someone interested in personal &…

The thinking points, tips, and tricks to help get a better understanding of communicating effectively through visualisations

For our integration with PowerPoint on Mac we need to generate and sign Microsoft Office documents. Documents with macros can be signed by…

In this episode, Dusan (Tech Lead) talks about layout primitives. - What is it, and what problem it solves (+examples)?  - What are the…

In this episode Davido (Tech Lead) talks about Front-End state management. - What it is?  - How to do it? Trivial way, Redux, MobX … +…

In this episode Svestka (Slido Co-Founder) talks about main lessons he has learnt since beginning of Slido. - What does it mean to start a…

Infrastructure as a dynamic Code — deliver multiple static app versions with CloudFront Functions.

In this episode Lubos (Engineering Leader) shares his thoughts and experience with ownership in sw engineering teams. - What is ownership…

In this episode Ivan (Tech Lead) and Iza (Product Manger) shares their thoughts about delightful product touches. - What is delightful…

In this episode Virpo (Tech Lead) shares his experience from attending, winning and organizing hackathons. - How and why we run internal…

In this episode Palo (Tech Lead) and Brozi (Product Manager) share how they work together in order to build the great product. - What is…

In this episode Marek (MrShu) will explain his strategy about building a modern Data/R&D team. - Where to start and how to build solid…

In this episode, Filip shared his career twist story. We talked about how he switched from psychology to testing and then test automation.

This is not a typical engineering topic but is worth to listen.  Dodo shared his experience and knowledge about giving feedback but we…

How I implemented the “Results capture” feature, and more

Deep dive into sentence embeddings and their use in keyphrase-extraction (Internship experience)

Read this before implementing Airflow’s (early beta) Smart Sensors

Dark mode is a must these days. How to get it done quickly and efficiently? How to choose the right colors? And much more…

A real-life story (with code) in which Google Sheets becomes the data labeling tool of choice for a task of classifying “text diffs”.

A short guide on setting basic printing options for Python console.

Optimise your workflow with Slack API and Google Apps Scripts to save yourself from tasks overload

Or how to keep even an air-gapped Airflow instance up to date via a CI/CD pipeline.

Gain visibility into the runtime.