Stories

How I ran a workshop at the Women of Silicon Roundabout conference and really got out of my comfort zone to do so.

How we used Flame Graphs to profile our Rails backend code in our development environment and thus fixed slow, suboptimal code faster.

How we’re using GitHub Advanced Security’s dependency scanning functionality to determine what our most popular dependencies are, and whether we can find any Open Source contributions for the month of Hacktoberfest.

Find out how Deliveroo’s sponsorship of the Athena Hackathon supports women and non-binary talent in tech

Learn about joining Deliveroo as a Senior Engineering Manager from Liz Mackie, Senior Engineering Manager.

How using OpenAPI has led to being able to ship a new service more effectively, by removing the need to write scaffolding, and instead focus on the business logic.

DynamoDB is great for quick data access, low-latency and scalability. However, one downside is that it does not support aggregation functionality like relational DB’s do. This is how we tackled this problem using DynamoDB Streams.

There’s a lot to being a production engineer at Deliveroo, and there’s no better way to answer this than in a Q&A fashion. So here are some of the questions I get asked and my answers to them. :)

Hey there! I’m Nathan, a backend engineer at Deliveroo. Born and raised in London, I’ve been a software engineer for over 5 years and joined Deliveroo just over a year ago. I want to share with you my experience so far and what you can expect in your first year. I hope nobody is reading. But if you are, then please keep this to yourself!