From Suffer Score to Relative Effort
Written by: Chris Spada and Will Meyer
One of our most popular Premium features is Suffer Score, a way to quantify effort during an activity using heart rate data…
Recently, the Strava Engineering team took a weeklong break from regular product work to focus attention on our core technology platforms. We coined this effort Guild Week. Before explaining Guild Week, it’d be useful to understand what a “Guild” is at Strava.
The Android team at Strava tries to maintain a healthy level of refactoring in conjunction with feature development throughout the year. However, earlier this month, all Android engineers had the opportunity to focus solely on platform health for an entire…