Tech Team

What’s the best name for a topic? What should be included in an event? This is a guideline attempting to create some consistency.

On Gympass we are recreating one of our products from scratch and a big challenge is to accommodate all the new features, since this…

Controlling versions using HTTP headers

Can you imagine getting paid to do what you love most and still have the opportunity to learn on the best e-learning platforms on the…

One may ask developers around the globe how it was to board a new company, and most of them will probably tell how long it took to them to…

Hey you all! I was an intern at two companies before and I can tell you: the experience is never the same. Of course Gympass is no…

More than translating content, we need to make it meaningful in different contexts.

Here at Gympass, one of our main concerns is how reliable and responsive our applications are, always taking into account how this could…

From my past experiences, I know how hard it is to find an intern position as a Machine Learning (ML) Engineer…

How we have been building stream processing using Apache Kafka and Akka

The first version of our Native App used to request 3 different services through their APIs. Besides, there weren’t any new features, it…

If you have read Part I of this post you already know some issues we've had when requesting REST API’s to build our first app version. In…

Introducing the Kotlin language as an option for service creation at Gympass.

More than identifying terms and their meanings, we need to understand what they mean in people’s daily lives.

Background

2020 has been a year full of emotions for everyone, the high level of uncertainty that is surrounding us and messing up our plans and…

Design for discoverability: Critical patterns for better user experience

It’s not from today that figuring out what customer want is a challenge. Past one century, the famous quote from Henry Ford (“If I had…

Gympass was a 7-year-old startup when we were hired to build the first native app. We didn’t have an app with native features, however, we…

One of the most challenging things that I had as a software engineer, was dealing with a large amount of information at the same time…

As I explained in a previous post, Gympass App in 2018 was a full-screen WebView, with a poor User Experience, slow rendered and no usage…

Since the beginning of our first features with React Native, testing was something that interested us. Before any release, we wanted to…

Although we don’t have a specific team responsible to manage and deploy our app releases, we used to concentrate the responsibility for…

Last year, in December we had the opportunity to revisit our current front-end architecture. In this article I will try to explain what we…