pierre brisorgueil·Apr 14Code Owners at TheForkHow do we try to maintain our set of repositories/microservices at TheFork? Introduction In September, we have observed that we lose knowledge and ownership for different reasons: The switch from features teams to Shape Up in a domain organization. A single large team on several subjects. It was a test that…Owners4 min read
Quentin BERNARD·Nov 30, 2021Our Kubernetes journey at TheForkWe started our journey with Kubernetes 2 years ago, when we decided to move our workloads from chef and virtual machines into docker and Kubernetes. This migration took quite some time (almost two years !) and was full of challenges and learnings. Two years seem crazy, but you need to…Kubernetes12 min read
Michael Marie-Julie·Nov 2, 2021Creating our piece of cloud in AWSIn 2018, all our production infrastructure was running in an established French hosting facility but was still using the traditional way to provision servers. Creating new VMware VMs would take time, they would need to be configured over a few days, then order servers and wait for the delivery if…AWS11 min read
Alex Dur·Sep 28, 2021Recipe of a happy Dev at TheForkAt least, most of the time — Be an actor of your happiness Keep people happy at work is a complex puzzle to solve, especially in tech domain. …Happiness5 min read
Telmo Gomes·Sep 21, 2021From Solr to Elasticsearch — A story by TheForkA long time ago in a company far far away… Actually, it was a few months ago and TheFork is already based in a lot of countries, so it should not be that far away. We are going to take you through our journey of discovery and learning and our…Thefork7 min read
Guillaume Voisin·Jul 6, 2021If you can’t measure it, don’t do itI have been told this quite a few times by my boss and I have to say I have adopted it entirely now. I’m going to tell you why. KPIs, metrics, OKRs, ROI, everything today is about numbers. …Metrics4 min read
pierre brisorgueil·Jul 2, 2021My amazement report following my arrival at TheForkHey, my name is Pierre Brisorgueil, and I’ve been at TheFork (a forkie 🙃) for a few weeks. The article’s purpose is to explain my first impression. I write it in transparency, with possible insights, experiences, and podcasts. …Thefork9 min read
Stephane Geraud·Jul 2, 2021Get the most out of Insomnia to effectively test your APITL;DR Don’t just write requests in Insomnia, use some of its best capabilities to keep your stuff maintainable and be more efficient. — What is Insomnia? Insomnia is a great software to easily send requests. It’s the perfect tool to test your REST or GraphQL APIs. It has been acquired by Kong in late 2019 and is available on Linux, macOS and Windows. In this article, I would like to show you how to get the…Rest Api10 min read
Stephen Jannin·May 20, 2021TheFork Technical Platform challenges for non tech peopleThis article is an overview of how I explained TheFork technical challenges and transformations to non technical people of the company. TheFork technical platform has been a key pillar to support the company growth 2 digits traffic increase per year pre covid ️Business keeps evolving with new functionalities, company acquisitions and geographic expansion, increasing complexity What is the Technical Platform? It’s all systems…Technical Platform3 min read
Jeremie SIFFRE·Apr 27, 2021iOS CI/CD with GitHub ActionsFor many years, we had our iOS Continuous Integration system running on Jenkins with a unique MacOS slave as a physical machine. It worked pretty well overall but we started to encounter scalability issues as the team grew. …I OS5 min read
