Reducing the time required to solve a customer support ticket increases productivity for engineering and support teams.

Before we begin it's imperative for me to admit that it took me longer to start writing this article, than to actually migrate the monolith.

To add a little spice to this otherwise mechanical, uninspiring and slow task, we purchased a chef's hat, and donned the hat every time we baked anew.

This spike was linked to a sophisticated attack that attempted to abuse our platform in order to send out approximately 6000 transfers with malicious content in a short period of time.

Given that life in quarantine was already difficult, how could we ensure we weren't making it worse by failing to address the technical challenges presented by our new reality? One answer to that question was to enable Kubernetes from home.

In the beginning, there were some tables. Then came a few more tables, but the initial tables remained and they were growing.

Building a billing system from scratch is not rocket science. It’s kind of a luxury, actually.

Like all innovation, writing an RFC is an act of vulnerability.

Our main goal was for our users to sign in without noticing that a lot of things changed in the authentication flow. How was that going to be possible, when we had 3 products, with web and mobile apps?

You have to be a romantic to invest yourself, your money, and your time in cheese