GAT Engineering Blog

Domain Cartographers - how to draw a Context Map

marketing@globalapptesting.com (Piotr Brych) — Sat, 20 Jan 2024 08:01:05 GMT

Surprisingly, the most widely known books about DDD do not provide clear practical guidance on how to draw a Context Map collaboratively. This article provides a step-by-step guide on how to draw a Context Map, based on the own experience of the author.

Evolution of my learning methods, part #3

Krzysztof Witczak — Tue, 24 Oct 2023 17:05:46 GMT

Welcome to the third and last part of my opinionated series about different levels of awareness of the learning process and how effective it is.

Evolution of my learning methods, part #2

Krzysztof Witczak — Wed, 26 Jul 2023 17:19:45 GMT

This is part #2 of my opinionated series about different levels of awareness of the learning process and its effectiveness.

How to make debugging a breeze... or at least a bit easier

Paweł Tarczykowski — Fri, 30 Jun 2023 14:11:57 GMT

Every developer has had occasion to debug a problem happening in the production environment. Our applications produce lots (and I mean LOTS) of lines of logs to help us deal with such problems, however, browsing through plain text log lines, even with full-text search tools, can be cumbersome.

Evolution of my learning methods, part #1

Krzysztof Witczak — Fri, 12 May 2023 17:44:32 GMT

Considering all of the revelations from the AI world that came to us in 2022, it's almost a truism to say, that technology changes quickly. If you are a software engineer, you probably know this weird sensation which emerges after taking a look at your technical bookshelf, especially at the books that you bought but didn't study. Many of the positions there are already so outdated that it doesn't even make sense to read them anymore... 🙈

(Ab)using Sentry for Alertmanager alerts

michal@globalapptesting.com (Michał Foryś) — Mon, 02 Jan 2023 14:59:43 GMT

We've been using Prometheus and Alertmanager since 2017. We use it to detect downtime, problems with queues, check if newest release is deployed on production, or if some kubernetes pod is stuck in a restart loop, plus a lot of more.

How we boosted our productivity by improving our CI

Paweł Tarczykowski — Sun, 13 Nov 2022 15:03:49 GMT

At Global App Testing, we improved our productivity by improving our continuous integration pipelines. Here’s how.

Quantified software engineer

Juraj Višňovský — Tue, 18 Oct 2022 08:33:02 GMT

Almost everything we do today generates some kind of digital footprint. This applies to our day-to-day life and even more so to the work we do as software engineers. When it comes to the data generated while developing software (data generated by issue trackers, version control, etc.) it’s already widely used by companies to track the performance of the company as a whole or of specific teams.

GAT TechTalk #5: Exploring Domain-Driven Design with Ruby and Real-Life Challenges

marketing@globalapptesting.com (Piotr Brych) — Mon, 10 Oct 2022 08:36:02 GMT

On the 4th October 2022, Global App Testing (GAT) Engineering team hosted the highly anticipated fifth addition to the TechTalk series, which you can watch below. Besides being a gripping insight into the best practices of ruby architecture, it gives us at GAT a chance to share our work here with the broader engineering community, and present a giveaway of swag and prizes at the end.

Feature Flags in Ruby - How we've crafted a gem to rule them all

Łukasz Tybor — Mon, 25 Jul 2022 16:32:35 GMT

What are feature flags?

Let's imagine you want to experiment with different application settings and their impact on your customers. The solution you use should support an option to target specific users, and it should be easy to use for a product manager.