Who doesn’t like the Christmas atmosphere? Almost nobody. At least not Appliscale team 🙂 This special time of year, people share with each other positive energy and kindness. That is why we invited a volunteer from the Hearty Foundation to our office. The foundation is doing amazing work helping children from foster houses through special…
Peter Gomori giving a talk on CodeBEAM Lite Amsterdam 2019 Visiting conferences, big or small is a great way to take a break from your everyday work focus area and have a wider look at what’s happening around the world. Listening to talks live sparks questions and inspires discussions. Discussions help connect with new people…
To write [marble tests], or not to write, that is the question. Every Software Developer should know the right answer. Tests are our safeguard in case of human errors. The Holy Grail of a working software. The key here is to write accurate tests. The ones that will check (almost) every possible scenario. This is…
One big challenge in a monorepo is to determine which components need to be rebuilt and consequently – deployed. The market offers us a couple of solutions, with Bazel ahead. All of them force repository owner (and users) to make enormous adaptations to build a system. Long-term earnings from using unified system pays-off, but could…
November 7th Appliscale was represented at AGH UST Job Fair by a strong team 🙂 As in previous years, the AGH job fair was a very well-run event with both local and international companies from different industries displaying their offers. It seemed that the majority of graduating students from all faculties attended the venue. This…
The greatest strength of every company is an integrated and relaxed team. Keeping this in mind, at Appliscale we organize an integration trip each year. This time we decided to spend the weekend together at the beginning of autumn in the heart of Kraków-Częstochowa Upland in Zawiercie. As usual, our family members, especially children, were…
Even though we all know that having a secure and reliable website is crucial for building an image of a trustworthy company it is common to neglect the aspect of making sure that the produced software is well tested and secured properly. It probably comes from the urge of minimizing the Time-to-market or introducing as…
This autumn, Appliscale decided to support DevConf 2019, as a silver sponsor. The conference took place in Krakow on September 26-27th. Our team member Kamil Kubacki was involved in the organising committee, so had the opportunity to influence the shape of the conference and sessions’ topics. This was quite a challenge as the level and…
This year’s DMEXCO2019 – Digital Marketing Expo & Conference held in Cologne on September 11 – 12 was special for several reasons. Firstly, Appliscale had its own booth. We were exhibiting on our stand with TMSE and their partners as a single group of companies that can help publishers and advertisers to get their tech…
Monthly integration events have already become our company tradition. In August we decided to go to the escape room as it is a great opportunity for team building. For one afternoon the whole Appliscale team have become detectives. We had been split into four groups trapped in four different rooms. Some of us were even…