It’s been another bumper year here at Trail HQ! 🚀 We’ve smashed our targets, secured another round of…
Selected from hundreds to join their 6 month accelerator programme
Dynamo DB can offer single digit millisecond lookups consistently no matter the scale of your data. However, while working with Dynamo over the last few months, we have found that this comes with many caveats. As Uncle Ben said…
With great power, comes…
How Trail use Slack’s Reacji Channeler to tag and collate customer feedback
When you’re building a product, everything’s a compromise. It’s important to foster a culture with honesty, openness and willingness to compromise at its core.
The timing of the London serverless conference was perfect for the engineering team at Trail. We’re taking our…
Thoughts on redesigning — and maintaining — the new Trail web-app UI
A year ago, I used a Photoshop external-smart-objects workflow to create reusable components in my daily design work, then I shifted to Sketch…
For a few weeks now, we’ve had a Pull Request backlog that was waaaay too long. Why? The team is acutely aware of the impact it…
Software engineers are, by their very nature, cautious. It goes with the territory. Even with the most…