Migrating from Buddybuild to Bitrise
At the start of the year Apple announced their acquisition of Buddybuild, along with the news that Android support would end by March. This meant we had to find an alternative quickly, and Bitrise was our eventual choice. Here’s why, and how we switched.
Interning at Deliveroo
Reemma writes to us after her time working with Deliveroo during her internship to tell us about her impressions of the company, her team, and what she accomplished with us over the Summer.
How to introduce Kotlin in your codebase
Kotlin was the big topic of the year in the Android community. Many of us are talking about it or have started using it. In this blog post I will share a few tips and tricks we’ve learned while converting our application to Kotlin.
How do we interview engineers at Deliveroo?
Deliveroo is growing fast. We want engineers to come work with us. In this post we’ll go through our interview process and tips to prepare.
Reset, Rebase Workflow
Rebase is one of git’s most powerful features. Most-commonly used to rewrite history by squashing related commits, and for keeping your branch up to date with master (without introducing unrelated merge commits), it can also facilitate some pretty clever workflow tricks which when used judiciously can let you factor out parts of your work into separate pull requests.
Tired of waiting for pull request reviews? Play Pull Request Roulette
You work in a medium or a large team and you find yourself tapping your fingers waiting for someone to review your PR. Days pass and nobody volunteers. Your code gets stale, version control conflicts emerge. What to do? Convince your team to start playing Pull Request Roulette. It’s fun and it works!
Improving Password Security
Passwords are a pivotal tool in customer account security, however they are frequently at risk from “reuse” - people choose one or two passwords and then use them everywhere, which brings a host of security problems…
Determinating a Scavenger Hunt
The Deliveroos rose from the ashes of the experimental fire. Their war to grow the product had raged for decades, but the final battle would not be fought in the future. It would be fought here, in our present. Tonight…
Data Sink
Our applications generate a lot of interesting data, but it’s not always simple to find the right way to collect it. We wanted to make it easier, so we went to the drawing board, and here’s what we’ve come up with.