How we build things is just as important as what we build. These articles let our engineers explain the “why” of what we do, and how we put the “tech” in “FinTech”.
This article was originally published by David Godoy, Ebury’s Salesforce Developer, in this LinkedIn profile. You are dealing with tight deadlines for the project you have been working on for the previous months, you have the release deadline set for tomorrow, all your team of developers have been working...
As we pass the end of the fourth quarter 2021/2022, we want to celebrate the achievement of having no downtime for our core systems....
When we build a web application, one of our main concerns is to be able to cover it with tests as well as possible. Tests are essential to guarantee the correct functionality of our application at all times and Cypress is one of the tools that can help us in...
This post was first published in aivarsk.com Cal Paterson wrote a great article comparing and describing synchronous and asynchronous Python frameworks and explaining why asynchronous frameworks go a bit wobbly under load. This is a story of how we experienced wobbliness in a recent project. We are using FastAPI, Pydantic, and...
The ‘Request For Comment’ (RFC) process is often used in large open source projects to coordinate discussion, record requirements and document design decisions. It is a process by which all contributors record suggestions, comments and discussions focussed around a technical proposal. The merit of the original proposal is debated, alternatives...
This post was first published in aivarsk.com The code I am working with uses Confluent Kafka Python library that calls librdkafka C++ library underneath. The code does synchronous messaging: it produces events one-by-one and ensures event is persisted in Kafka topic by waiting for acknowledgments from all replicas. This code is sensitive to latency...
