blog - Ebury LABS

November 9, 2020

by Thomas Dodds

Culture

Ebury Tech Code of Conduct is now online

At Ebury, we believe that everybody deserves to work in a place where they can feel included and treated with dignity. We strive for a diverse, inclusive and supportive tech community. These values motivated the publication of our Ebury Tech Code of Conduct.

March 5, 2021

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Agile

Culture

Retrospectives: What, Why and How?

Agile methodology builds on Retrospectives as the main continuous improvement practice. We created this video to share how we use retrospectives in Ebury technology.

December 11, 2020

salesforce

Engineering

Adopting Salesforce ApexMocks Framework

When it comes to building a robust test suite for an enterprise application, the mocking technique is a must have in our developer tool-belt. It is a big enabler for crafting well architected applications and it is a well known standard in the industry for most of the advanced programming languages. However it is not […]

October 23, 2020

Backend

Engineering

SQL, spotlight on Django problems

As backend developers, after years working high level we tend to forget about database efficiency and complexity because of either the ORM and the database. On one side the ORMs are nice tools, that help on building big systems easily hiding a lot of the underlying complexity, on the other side modern databases are very […]

Héctor Alvarez

October 9, 2020

Engineering

Dynamic Variant Analysis with Python

Variant analysis is a technique that allows developers to find bugs or problems in the codebase that follow the same pattern or behaviour. This post explores how to use code instrumentation to achieve dynamic variant analysis.

July 7, 2020

Agile

Culture

Effective Remote Meetings

Since working remotely seems to be the topic of the moment, I thought I would share some tips on effectively running meetings and how to apply them to your remote meetings.

May 14, 2020

Engineering

This post is targeting Python developers who are used to unittest, asking themselves why they should try pytest. I’m hoping my experience and explanation will help you to clarify these doubts.

April 16, 2020

Culture

LABS

Getting Started Managing a Remote Team

Dave Murphy and I decided to record a short video on what we have learned and the best practices that we have distilled over the years on how to manage remote teams. We have a lot of leads at Ebury that are suddenly looking after remote teams, with this video we hope we can help […]

Victor Tuson Palau

April 7, 2020

Engineering

Metaprogramming

In Ebury IT we care a lot about our fellow company mates, this is why we like to share knowledge with each other. Sometimes you give and most of the times you take. One of the main targets of Python programming language since its conception by Guido Van Rossum, was to create a developer-friendly and […]

Héctor Alvarez

March 20, 2020

Culture

Remote Working at Ebury

Following in the footsteps of many other successful companies, the Ebury Tech team introduced our own Remote Working Policy in late 2018. This has allowed us to provide more flexibility for our current employees, and give us access to a larger talent pool for recruiting. The advantages – and disadvantages – of remote or distributed […]

February 14, 2020

Culture

Developing Yourself at Ebury

Learn about our framework for personal development in Ebury Technology: our career paths, the individual steps, and the competencies we value.

Victor Tuson Palau

January 23, 2020

Engineering

CI with Salesforce – part 1: Where we were at and where we should

When I started to think about this post, it was not easy for me to find a clear way to explain it. This has been a long and hard project, involving a lot of teams and processes, and explaining what we have now and why, could be complex without previous knowledge of our flows, methodologies, […]

Javier Vázquez

April 10, 2019

DevOps

Engineering

Terragrunt : Terraform the easy way

We are using Terraform to configure our Infrastructure as Code in AWS and we used it with Terragrunt from the first day. What is Terragrunt? the official definition “… is a thin wrap for Terraform that provides additional tools to maintain your Terraform DRY configurations, work with multiple Terraform modules, and manage the remote state.” […]

March 12, 2019

DevOps

Events

DockerCon EU 18

On December of 2018, the Ebury team attended DockerCon EU. DockerCon Europe describes itself as “a 2.5 day technology conference, where customers and community come to learn, share and connect with each other. Attendees are a mix of developers, systems admins, architects, and IT decision makers —from beginner to intermediate, and advanced users— who are […]

March 12, 2019

Agile

Culture

Tech Culture: Teams, Tribes and Pirates

Tech Culture: Teams, Tribes and Pirates Welcome to this biology post, because in a high-level, I’m going to share part of our Agile DNA. We will cover 3 ways we interact with other Tech colleagues: Teams Tribes Pirates Teams Our Scrum Master are going to explain this information in other post but Teams at Ebury are […]

Juan Manuel Pérez

March 8, 2019

Agile

Culture

Our Agile Process

At Ebury, all of our development teams use the Agile Scrum framework, so we thought it would be interesting to share a little bit about what goes on under the hood. Scrum framework Scrum is used by over 12 million people around the world for products big and small. It all starts with a Product […]

February 14, 2019

Data science

Design/UX

Engineering

Visualizing User Experience Data with Google Data Studio (Part II)

In our previous article ‘Visualizing User Experience Data‘, we defined a framework to measure the User Experience of a product. In this article, we want to share how we can use Google Data Studio to visualise those metrics and facilitate decision making during the design process. Data Studio Data Studio is a free tool offered […]

January 21, 2019

Culture

LABS

Malaga TechHub – Quick Office Tour

I recently recorded a quick tour of our Malaga (Spain) office, with our Recruitment Lead, Cristina Scanu. Enjoy and don’t forget that we are hiring in Malaga and also we have remote working positions!

Victor Tuson Palau

January 21, 2019

Culture

Engineering

The Fin and the Tech

We often talk about Ebury being a disruptive Fintech company. Today I wanted to go into more detail about what makes Ebury a Financial and Technology company. FINtech Ebury’s core business is foreign currency exchange (Forex), and we focus on the enterprise segment of the market. To better illustrate what we do, let’s take as […]

Victor Tuson Palau

January 17, 2019

Design/UX

Visualizing User Experience Data (Part I)

Ebury Online is a platform that allows users to do international payments quickly, securely and efficiently. Using data analytics it’s an important part of Ebury’s design process. We, as product designers, need to have a great understanding of data in order to make informed decisions that will impact both on the business and the user […]

January 14, 2019

Design/UX

Events

The best of Generate Conference – 2018

Last month, the Ebury team attended Generate, a conference dedicated to designers who are looking to improve the user experience (UX) of their websites. We’ll be talking through what we learned, how we’ll be applying our new knowledge to our UX, but most importantly, what you can take away to apply yourself. The opening talk […]

November 12, 2018

Events

Jenkins World: Fighting the Jenkinstein

Jenkins World is a two-day conference held specifically for IT executives, DevOps practitioners, Jenkins users and partners. This year, I attended the conference in Nice, France. Jenkins World has traditionally always been held in San Francisco, but this year it expanded across to Europe with the additional conference admitting more than 800 attendants. Due to […]

Luis Piedra Márquez

November 9, 2018

Events

LABS

EUROPYTHON 2018 Asyncio learnings

EDINBURGH Thanks to Ebury’s learning program, Héctor Álvarez and Jesús Gutiérrez were selected to attend EuroPython in Edinburgh. EuroPython is a yearly conference in Europe that focuses on Python programming language and its ecosystem . This year’s sessions were held at the Edinburgh International Conference Center; an amazing building in the core of the city, just a […]

Héctor Alvarez

October 23, 2018

Events

Ebury Salesforce at the DreamOlé 2018 Eventj

On the 27th of April this year, the Ebury Salesforce team attended DreamOlé; the biggest Salesforce event in Spain, with collaborators and speakers from around the world gathering to share their knowledge, skills and experience with the audience. The important presentations from our perspective were…

Javier Vázquez

August 30, 2018

Events

Ebury Salesforce at the DreamOlé 2018 Event

On the 27th of April this year, the Ebury Salesforce team attended DreamOlé; the biggest Salesforce event in Spain, with collaborators and speakers from around the world gathering to share their knowledge, skills and experience with the audience. The important presentations from our perspective were…

Javier Vázquez

August 30, 2018

Engineering

Events

Takeaways from the 2018 ExpoQA in Madrid

For the fourth consecutive year, Ebury attended the ExpoQA conference during 4-6 June in Madrid. Events such as these are paramount in order to stay updated with the latest news in technology, tools, methodologies and all the nerdy stuff we love. We would like to highlight the following presentations: Focus on product quality instead of […]

Daniel Gordillo

July 23, 2018

Engineering

Events

DjangoCon Europe 2018

DjangoCon Europe 2018, the European conference for the Django framework, was held this year in Heidelberg, Germany, from May 23rd – 27th. Professionals from around the world gathered together to enjoy a collaborative environment with talks given on a variety of topics, from philosophical issues, to technical details. Ebury adopted Django a few years ago […]

Miguel Ángel Moreno

June 26, 2018

Design/UX

Engineering

Introducing huha.js: Analysing User Experience with Javascript

We love building great products, but a product would be completely useless if it is not properly designed for the people who are meant to use it. This lack of efficiency impacts the user experience (UX) of the solution. But, how can we achieve a good UX when developing a product? Is there a way […]

June 22, 2018

Engineering

Queue tasks in Celery after database commit – Introducing django-transaction-hooks

At Ebury, we use Django and have followed an ongoing upgrade path from 1.3 to 1.5 to 1.7. During that time we have had an issue that was messing with us. You might be familiar with it. We use celery for executing asynchronous tasks and Django is our framework with PostgreSQL database. The issue occurs […]

April 18, 2018

Design/UX

Engineering

Ebury Chameleon as an example of a Design System

How to build a design language that works across teams and platforms Invision acquired Brand.ai, UXPin released Systems, and Uber, IBM, and Salesforce are examples of companies who have decided to change the way of designing digital products. They all have one thing in common: using Design Systems as a way of creating outstanding user […]

March 16, 2018

Events

PyConEs 2017 overall

In September 2017 Ebury went to PyCon Spain 2017 which took place in Cáceres (Extremadura), at the beautiful location of San Francisco’s Cultural Complex. Read on for insights on refactoring, unicode, serverless, testing factories, diversity in the work place and open source! In this article we would like to give pull out some key talks […]

Ebury Labs User

October 31, 2017

Engineering

Events

Performance improvements in Salesforce Lightning components

In this post I will show you how to improve your component performance using caching, unbound expressions, and how and when to use the three types of Events available in LEX.

Javier Vázquez

July 21, 2017

Engineering

Security in JavaScript: An AmsterdamJS story

Given that security is so important for our applications, then as front-end developers, why are we we so intimidated when we have to secure our projects? How can we easily improve the security layer in our own JavaScript code? I recently attended the 2017 AmsterdamJS Conference 2017, where I met Ingrid Epure. I would like […]

July 18, 2017

Engineering

Events

TrailheaDX 2017 highlights

TrailheaDX is the Salesforce developer conference. It was held in San Francisco on the 28th and 29th of June, in the Moscone West Center. The number of attendees has quadrupled from last year, with people coming from all around the world, as my colleague and myself traveled from Málaga (Spain). This conference was born after […]

July 12, 2017

Design/UX

Personas are just an excuse

How we make User Research at Ebury If you have ever worked with a team of UX Designers, I’m sure you have heard about the term Persona. A Persona is simply a semi-fictional character that stereotypes your user. It doesn’t sound that useful, does it? Indeed, personas are fairly irrelevant but we still need to […]

June 30, 2017

Engineering

Salesforce DX Pilot – first impressions

At Ebury, we use Salesforce as our CRM but also as a reconciliation platform for our lending business; to manage our credit line requests, our margin calls, and our onboarding (KYC, AML) processes. But since standard functionality is not enough for us, we have a dedicated team specialised in force.com that builds customisation and applications […]

June 28, 2017

Engineering

How we created our payments and capabilities map with CARTO

Recently, we have built out a cool interactive map displaying the payments and capabilities coverage of Ebury for our corporate website using CARTO. We will walk you through all the stages of development that we made and point you at the source code of our project GitHub. By applying the micro-services philosophy, we decided to develop it […]

June 16, 2017

Agile

Events

LABS

Agile Lean Coffee

This week we completed the second edition of the Malaga Agile Meetup. This time, we held a Lean Coffee meeting. Once again, the attendance was incredible; the 30 available seats were filled in a short time and the waiting list was growing right up until the day of the event. Our agile community continues to grow […]

June 14, 2017

Events

Quality assurance

SSTQB 2017 Tour – QA 4×4

On 30th March, we had the opportunity to take part in SSTQB 2017 tour in Málaga and to explain how QA works at Ebury. Have a look at our ground breaking conference presentation here.

María Urdaneta

April 19, 2017

Engineering

Events

Google Hashcode 2017 – How we managed to solve the proposed problem

The HashCode challenge, a team-based programming competition organised by Google where people from Europe, the Middle-East and Africa try to solve a problem proposed by the company, took place during during the evening on the 23rd February, and Ebury was there to cover such an awesome event. Our Malaga office was open for those who […]

Christian Expósito

March 23, 2017

Agile

Events

LABS

Agile and Beers

After our agile adventure in Vitoria (CAS2016) we come back empowered and with a lot of energy to create an agile community in Málaga. Using this wave of power we decided to create the first Malaga Agile Meetup. Our main objective with the meetup is to collect all the agile enthusiasts in Málaga with energy […]

March 21, 2017

Quality assurance

Unit test execution (part 2): Coverage

The post is the second part of the Unit test execution (part 1) blog post published in October 2016. This time we will explain how to run Python tests with coverage using a distributed architecture to ensure things don’t take too long! We will describe step by step how and what we set up to […]

Miguel Ángel Moreno

February 23, 2017

Engineering

Events

dotCSS: Moving the CSS styles forward

It’s been 2 months since we travelled to Paris in order to attend the dotCSS and the dotJS, both part of the dotConferences series of developer events. We would like to share with you what we have learnt and to do that, we have created a presentation in HTML, CSS and JS using all the new […]

February 13, 2017

Agile

Events

Our Agile adventure in Vitoria, Spain – Agile Spanish Conference 2016 (CAS 2016)

On 30th November we had our latest agile adventure in Vitoria, Spain. We arrived there to attend the Agile Spanish Conference (CAS 2016) taking place on 1st and 2nd December. CAS is one of the biggest and most important meetings in Spain. This particular event gathered together many qualified professionals from the tech sector. We had […]

January 24, 2017

Agile

Team motivation

From the beginning of the times humanity has been able to do awesome things that made a big difference to the world: the discovery of fire, language, wheel, electricity, penicillin examples of the most important ones. These discoveries were made possible by people with a strong motivation.

December 8, 2016

Engineering

Recursive Amazon Lambda Functions

Unless you’ve been in a cave for the last year, you may have noticed how “Serverless” is the new sticky word in the dev community and it’s like we’ve not had time to get used to the “Microservices” buzz. But don’t go crazy just yet, it’s not the time throw away your “still hot” blueprint […]

November 22, 2016

Data science

Ebury’s Data Science Team wins Gates Foundation Hacking Global Health Hackathon

Machine learning based lead generation, modelling stress scenarios through multi-correlated GBMs and Brownian bridges, forecasting credit defaults using random forests… I never expected our first Data Science post to be about measuring the weight of babies!

October 31, 2016

Quality assurance

Unit testing execution for legacy code (part 1): Implementation

When we talk about Unit Tests we generally mean tests for individual units of source code as created as an outcome of Test Driven Development. But how can we apply this when we’re developing against areas of our code base that don’t have unit tests to start with, that is essentially Legacy code? This post describes how we approached this problem […]

Daniel Gordillo

October 17, 2016

Events

Ebury is proud to be Gold Sponsor of PyConES 2016

As part of our ongoing commitment to the Python community, we’re excited to announce our sponsorship and participation in PyConES 2016.

Adrián Matellanes

September 26, 2016

Events

After the great reception of the First Python Málaga Meetup, we were eager for the next event! Next stop: PyDay 2016. PyDay 2016 is an event organised by Python España, aimed to expand local Python communities and running from 12nd – 18th of September. Local community meetups, dojos and workshops happened across cities including Madrid, Barcelona, […]

Ebury Labs User

September 20, 2016

Events

First Málaga Python Meetup

Last week, the Málaga Python meetup debuted with a fabulous event. The much anticipated event was over subscribed, with lucky 30 people converging upon the Ebury office in Málaga to hear from one of our team leaders, Adrián Matellanes.

September 13, 2016

Events

First Málaga Python Meetup

Last week, the Málaga Python meetup debuted with a fabulous event. The much anticipated event was over subscribed, with lucky 30 people converging upon the Ebury office in Málaga to hear from one of our team leaders, Adrián Matellanes.

Ebury Labs User

September 13, 2016

Quality assurance

What does QA mean for Ebury?

Our teams are cross functional and fully responsible for the quality of the product they produce. We apply an end-to-end philosophy to our daily work, that is, we are responsible from user story creation through to ensuring that story is delivered, working and supported in production. Every team member will be involved in supporting the […]

Ebury Labs User

August 31, 2016

Design/UX

Our favourite online and desktop design tools

Designers always look for the best set of tools for their next project, but often the ones already in place can be used for their purpose – achieving different things with different goals in mind. As a designer, I try to use tools that fit the project needs as well as our longer-term workflow. Let’s […]

Ebury Labs User

August 25, 2016

DevOps

Hubot for the AWS API Gateway

We’ve recently made available our Hubot script for the Amazon API Gateway, which we are actively developing to help us manage the gateway.

Ebury Labs User

August 5, 2016

Engineering

New plugin: SEO hreflang content mapping across WordPress multi-sites

Ebury Labs has released a new WordPress plugin to make it easy to apply proper hreflang SEO meta tags, enabling content to be mapped across multiple languages and websites in a WordPress multi-site setup.

July 28, 2016

LABS

Let the dancing begin: Getting ready for PSD2

PSD2: In fintech and banking more generally, it’s become the magic word for disruption, opportunity and threat all rolled into one. The Payment Services Directive 2 is a revised directive from the European Union on how the payment services industry must operate, cooperate and provide choice for consumers. Even in the light of Brexit, PSD2 […]

Ebury Labs User

July 20, 2016

Engineering

Introducing marionette.notifications – the latest plugin from Ebury labs

Do you remember the last post where we talked about how easy it is to create global notifications with Marionette? You’ll be pleased to know that we’ve developed a plugin using the solution we shared.

June 30, 2016

Engineering

WordPress Development with Docker containers (MacOSX)

As new developers join our team, we make it easy and straight-forward to set up local wordpress development environments that closely resemble the test/staging and production environments. Why should this be considered best-practice? When developing for a multi-site wordpress website in a corporate environment, most code will need to be written locally on your desktop […]

June 22, 2016

LABS

High Performance Teams (a Craft view)

At the end of April we attended Craft Conference in Budapest. The two most repeated concepts were microservices and containers, but the underlying theme throughout was how up-to-date ideas and practices are required in order to produce high performance teams. In this post I will try to bring those aspects together focusing, not necessarily on what […]

Ebury Labs User

June 15, 2016

LABS

Ebury’s Tech Stack

We’re sharing our technology stack using stackshare.io as a fun way to uncover some the technologies and systems that power Ebury.

June 9, 2016

Design/UX

The design process: start right

Starting a new design project is always a challenge. Even identifying what you have to do first can be difficult. The design process is not always clear, normally because each project has its owns requirements, platforms, devices, deadlines, etc. Bearing that in mind, you can’t follow the same design process each time and sometimes you’ll have to […]

Ebury Labs User

June 1, 2016

Events

Ebury and The Age of the Customer – Salesforce World Tour London 2016

When Ebury attended the Salesforce World Tour in 2015 it was a chance to meet potential vendors in the Salesforce space, such as CloudApps, and catch up with existing partners, like Birst and New Voice Media. We watched a couple of customer breakout sessions and said we should get involved. This year, we did.

Ebury Labs User

May 20, 2016

Engineering

Daemons with Celery III

To improve the solution I explored in the previous entry, we need to go deeper into our knowledge of Celery. Our goal is to change our tasks’ behavior so that, if the same type of task is currently being executed, the second task is marked as aborted (or similar) and not executed. To achieve this behavior […]

Ebury Labs User

May 12, 2016

Events

Our time at #CraftConf – Marty Cagan, agile and the Poppendiecks!

Even though there’s a huge amount of material on this topic, software development made right can help organisations immensely. It’s important to invest in development: not just in engineering but in the whole value generation process, enabling it to adapt quickly to requirements.

Ebury Labs User

May 6, 2016

Agile

Kaizen Events – .Tuenti Challenge 6

One of the most important parts of our agile culture is that of Continuous Improvement or Kaizen. A constant search for better ways to maximise customer value, reduce time to market and, importantly, improve our teams’ skill.

Ebury Labs User

May 5, 2016

Engineering

Daemons with Celery II

Continuing with our previous entry about how to daemonize with Celery. We left the solution in a state where our buffer could eventually collapse due to our producer generating tasks faster that our consumer could execute them. To solve this I propose another question: “Is foo_action_postsave task currently being executed?”

Ebury Labs User

April 27, 2016

Events

Ebury at ProgSCon 2016 – Insight and key learnings

We attended ProgSCon The Programming Conference in London on April 22 to learn about different languages, architectures, algorithms and coding practices, as well as new trends and ideas. Questions tackled at the event included: How to get the best of a given programming language? How to squeeze out the last drop of performance juice? Which […]

Ebury Labs User

April 25, 2016

Engineering

QFS: Real-time streaming for trading with FIX and Redis

Ebury uses the Financial Information eXchange (FIX) Protocol to facilitate many of our electronic trading trends. FIX has become the language of global financial markets and is used extensively by banking trading platforms. This non-proprietary, free and open standard is constantly being developed to support evolving business and regulatory needs, and is used by thousands […]

Ebury Labs User

April 20, 2016

Engineering

Global notifications made easy with Marionette

One of the things almost any web application in the world has to implement is a way to display notifications. Global notifications allow to users to know what is happening while they’re using an application, which is particularly helpful after performing an action (did the action end successfully or did something go wrong?)

April 13, 2016

Engineering

Daemons with Celery I

We’re used to working with python so the examples I’ll use will be either pure python or python-based pseudocode. Python has a really simple and elegant syntax so it’s almost understandable for people who don’t know the language. I’m going to explore a common problem in the backend of all kinds of applications that have […]

Ebury Labs User

April 13, 2016

LABS

In a stroke of brilliance, we decided to name this first entry ‘Hello world’, precisely because that’s the main objective. We want to say hi to all of you who have discovered this blog and show you what constitutes the tech in Ebury’s fintech.

Ebury Labs User

February 18, 2016