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Your job is not just to write good code

Writing good code is the easy part; it has challenges of course but most engineers struggle with communication.

June 25, 2021 - Michael Bensoussan

What's a good team process?

Any team - no matter the scale - encounters some friction at some point. Processes are a possible solution to address these. But how should we build processes that work?

June 03, 2021 - Eric Favre

What I learned in two years at Getaround

A non-exhaustive list of tips, patterns and lib I learned to use at Getaround

April 20, 2021 - Rémy Hannequin

How we handle incidents at Getaround

An example of what happens when a bad commit is deployed

April 05, 2021 - Miguel Torres

How we ran our last hack day

Running an hack day in a full-remote environment

March 24, 2021 - Michael Bensoussan

Predicting slack emoji reactions with machine learning

Adding a slack action to react with a relevant emoji, using ruby and machine learning

June 01, 2020 - Adrien Siami

Bookkeeping

Translating hundreds-of-years-old ideas in code

March 01, 2020 - Nicolas Zermati

Writing JavaScript like it's 2020

() => 'The future looks good!'

January 08, 2020 - Clement Bruno

Migrating a Live IoT Telemetry Backend

Explore the process behind choosing and migrating IoT infrastructure

December 10, 2019 - Khwaab Dave

Improving Performance with Flame Graphs

A quick overview of how we dig into the performance of specific parts of our app.

October 29, 2019 - Howard Wilson

What is my job like at Getaround EU

Get an overview of what a backend developer could do at Getaround EU

October 29, 2019 - Nicolas Zermati

More tips and tricks for junior developers

Some more tips with examples for junior devs looking to improve their code

September 18, 2019 - Emily Fiennes

A basic decision tree in Ruby

Build a simple decision tree for a multi-steps flow

August 23, 2019 - Jean Anquetil

Sharing React components with rollup.js

Bundle and publish a React component project to share it across our projects as a node module

July 24, 2019 - Thibaud Esnouf

How Kotlin's Coroutines help us to deal with Bluetooth

At Drivy, we want to enable users to open the car even if it's on the bottom floor of the deepest, underground parking. Since we can't rely on a GSM connection when so deep underground, we need to use a Bluetooth connection. But communicating with a Bluetooth device is easier said than done, due to the fact that it's low-level and requires many asynchronous calls. Let's see how we can improve this.

July 16, 2019 - Romain Guefveneu

Things to consider when choosing a third-party API

There are a lot of third-party-services APIs, but not all are created equally. In this article, we'll list the different points you should consider before you take a decision: documentation, libraries, SDKs, support, pricing, data privacy, and maintenance

July 02, 2019 - Christophe Yammouni

Design system and API-Driven UI

Our iOS and Android apps require API calls to fetch fresh content and build screens. We combined this requirement with the power of a design system to go even further in our ability to have flexible apps.

June 05, 2019 - Renaud Boulard

Embracing or banishing randomness

How could using random values within your specs lead to better documentation and greater confidence? This post will use Ruby and RSpec to introduce some concepts from property based testing.

May 15, 2019 - Nicolas Zermati

Your JavaScript can reveal your secrets

In backend security, JavaScript files are often underlooked but can tell a great deal about you.

May 02, 2019 - Adrien Siami

Sorbet: A Ruby type checker

Sorbet is a Ruby type checker developed by Stripe. What's a type checker? What kind of type checker is Sorbet? Should you use it?

April 19, 2019 - Antoine Lyset

From translator to developer

An interview with a Full-Stack Engineer on how she started coding and what it’s like to work at Drivy

February 19, 2019 - Jordan Jalabert & Emily Fiennes

Rails 6 unnoticed features

The features you may have missed.

February 15, 2019 - Alexandre Ferraille

Handle disabled mobile data setting on iOS

How to reimplement iOS's alert for cellular data error

February 13, 2019 - Thomas Senkman

Ruby tricks for junior developers

Some small tricks and examples to improve your code

January 22, 2019 - Clement Bruno

Lambda composition in ruby 2.6

The new proc composition operators: << and >> - a small feature that can easily be overlooked.

January 15, 2019 - David Bourguignon

Why we've chosen Snowflake ❄️ as our Data Warehouse

We will share with you the reasons why we've changed our Data Warehouse technology from Redshift to Snowflake.

January 07, 2019 - Faouz EL FASSI

Airflow Architecture at Drivy

Airflow Architecture at Drivy: a quick overview of Airflow architecture at Drivy

November 21, 2018 - Eloïse Gomez

Open-sourcing checker jobs

A Ruby gem to run regression tests on your data using a convenient DSL.

September 24, 2018 - Nicolas Zermati

Exporting significant SQL reports with ActiveRecord

Avoid blowing up your memory while running big SQL queries

August 29, 2018 - Nicolas Zermati

Security tips for rails apps

A few tips and examples to avoid basic security issues in a rails application

August 27, 2018 - Adrien Siami

Implementing Up Navigation on Android

Parent Navigation has always been a tough topic on Android. There are not a lot of apps that implement the guidelines correctly, maybe because they are hard to understand or complicated to implement.

August 03, 2018 - Romain Guefveneu

Quick wins to deal with users' broken email addresses

Transactional emails are very important for a successful experience. So, how are we dealing with broken email addresses?

July 05, 2018 - Jean Anquetil

Usage of Sidekiq middleware

Use Sidekiq middleware to propagate information to jobs.

May 31, 2018 - David Bourguignon

Rails 5.2: ActiveStorage highlight

Rails 5.2 comes with awesome features: here we'll talk about ActiveStorage

May 17, 2018 - Alexandre Ferraille

Android Makers 2018 Key takeaways

Modern Android development, From Java to Kotlin, Design Tools, ADB, Typesetting and more: key takeaways from this 2018 edition.

May 17, 2018 - Renaud Boulard

Ensuring consistent spacing in your UI

Ensuring visual consistency across an application can be tricky: a few tips about how we do it at Drivy.

April 19, 2018 - Tim Petricola

Running Our First Internal Hack Day

We started doing hack days to work together on new ideas. It was a lot of fun, so we decided to share how we did it and some of the results we saw.

April 03, 2018 - Emily Fiennes & Marc G Gauthier

Redshift tips and tricks - part 1

We will share with you some insights, tips and tricks on how we managed to increase performance, robustness and reliability of Redshift as our usages changed over time.

March 21, 2018 - Faouz EL FASSI

Rails 5.1 Change Tracking in Callbacks

Illustration of a subtle change to the way that Rails 5.1 tracks model changes in callbacks

February 12, 2018 - Howard Wilson

How we documented our API using unit testing

One of the most known pain point in API development is keeping up-to-date documentation. Let's see how we managed to do it using unit testing.

January 23, 2018 - Christophe Yammouni

Pro tips for productivity

A summary of pro tips for enhanced productivity, recently shared by the dev team during a Tech Talk

January 16, 2018 - Emily Fiennes

Highlights from the 2017 dotJS

A handpicked selection of the dotJS talks you should watch first.

January 11, 2018 - Victor Mours

dotCSS 2017 hightlights

The Drivy team was at the 2017 DotCSS conference. Here is a digest of the talks we found the most interesting, including a search engine build in CSS or what can be done with the grid property.

December 21, 2017 - Jean Anquetil

Embulk: move easily data across datasources

We present how we use Embulk to move data across multiple datasources thousand times a day at Drivy

December 11, 2017 - Antoine Augusti

Sending an e-mail to millions of users

Sometimes you just need to send a lot of emails, and services that make it really simple can get too expensive. Here is how we sent an e-mail to all our users and what we learnt.

November 20, 2017 - Adrien Siami

Multi-currency support in Java

For a few weeks, Drivy has been available in the United-Kingdom. Unlike the others Europeans countries where Drivy operates, the United-Kingdom use a different currency: we had to make some changes in our Android apps to support this.

November 20, 2017 - Romain Guefveneu

Data quality checkers

Making sure that the data we use is of good enough quality is very important. Here is how we ensure that the data we collect, store and process is meeting our quality requirements.

November 09, 2017 - Antoine Augusti

Sanitize your attributes through your form object

A simple way to sanitize the user's form inputs using the Virtus custom coercion.

October 17, 2017 - Jean Anquetil

Evolution Of Our Continuous Delivery Process

To stay agile and reduce risks related to large releases, it's important to be able to ship code fast. In this article we showcase chronologically all the iterations which have lead to what we currently do at Drivy for quick and efficient releases.

September 27, 2017 - Marc G Gauthier

Setting up Vim for React development

A list of plugins and config tricks for maximum productivity with React in Vim

September 12, 2017 - Victor Mours