Urban Massage Product

Automated Testing vs Testing*

*by a human.

Nginx with Docker readonly filesystem: easier said than done

Event-based architecture and why it’s essential for startups

Now, what do I mean by event based architecture? The easiest analogy for most developers these days is the publish-subscribe model.

FlightControl — Logging and instrumentation for multi-tiered apps

Before we get started, let me just say — multi-tiered / microservice architecture is great. It gives you great freedom to work on small features in isolation, building up to large feature sets without having the…

From a monolith to micro-services (part 1)

When writing the first version of Urban Massage, we followed the standard agile approach when starting a new project — build a big app that can do everything you need — but at the same time make sure that you encapsulate in a way that you can easily split…

Grouped key expiry with redis

As I’ll be covering in a later article, our booking process is like no other in the industry — upon entering a postcode on our system, we parallel process a huge combination of travel permutations in order to make sure that every therapist gets to each appointment on time…