Get the inside perspective on technology and techniques, from the Findmypast engineering & design teams.
How we run our remote software engineering hiring process at Findmypast
How we solved random DNS lookup failures in Kubernetes
How FMP migrated deployments to high availability Kubernetes cluster
How FMP migrated deployments to high availability Kubernetes cluster
How FMP migrated deployments to high availability Kubernetes cluster
How FMP migrated deployments to high availability Kubernetes cluster
How to add several nines to your DB uptime.
What you should do and what you shouldn't to get hired as a software engineer at Findmypast
How to design a GraphQL schema that is extensible and maintainable
A command-line tool for social coding. Manage and add co-authors to your commits.
How we get from raw data to sub-second searches across nearly 3 billion records.
Think about what do you expect when doing TDD (and a few other thoughts along the way)
Explore Solr and its faceting features from a beginner's perspective.
Why you shouldn't commit WIP
Turn your family tree into a graph to visualize it and query it
What is technical debt?
Let's see how Relay works under the hood to fetch data for us.
Development of a Consumer-Driven Contracts Microservice using NodeJS
With mentoring and coaching, could we take a 3rd year software intern and turn them into a full stack developer
A summary of two talks about Elixir development
Developing a SQL Server adapter for Ecto
Developing a SQL Server adapter for Ecto
My own experience of putting my learning about mastery into practice
A proposed framework for focused learning in software engineering
A summary of two talks about Elixir development
How to build a simple form using React and GraphQL
How FMP manage to separate deployment from feature release using trunk based development and feature toggles
Our step by step approach to refactoring our Monolith into a platform of Microservices
Tools used to increase maintainability in an Elixir project
An overview of how we test React using Enzyme, from a novice javascripter's point of view
Implementing blue/green deployment using docker, service discovery and home grown friends!
This article explains why and how to use Enzyme.
A super efficient day-to-day development experience. Never look anywhere except the code in the repository you are working in to test, release and manage your software
Simplify and standardise your application deployment scripts
Discovering how to use macros, and hey, look ma, no ifs!
Building a delivery pipeline to support a microservices architecture
A great walkthrough on how we do continuous integration and continuous deployment in Findmypast
Sitemaps and their place in the new Microservice architecture
Professional software developers need to know their tools well.
Unit testing Legacy code, Boy Scout rule and more
How to integrate unit testing with third party libraries
Don't fail
This isn't about code, it's about change
Basics to start playing with Elixir in the Interactive shell
We show you how to create cookies in Javascript and strategies for testing
Effective developers are learners but not all learners are equal
How to influence change
Use pattern matching to change your Object Oriented Programming mindset
Plant UML diagrams are a great way of quickly sharing complex system behaviour and architecture
Findmypast uses open source maps - and then gives back through humanitarian 'armchair mapping'
Using Vagrant to get a basic environment to run Phoenix and Elixir
Keeping up in software is hard, here are some techniques I use to get my information
Judge the code, not the developer
Experiences of a junior developer doing pair programming
Stubbing dependencies in commonJS
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