📚 ABOUT THE EPISODE Software projects are filled with all these hard decisions. Deciding between making use of a known technology or pattern versus picking something entirely new is one of the most difficult and impactful ones. In this episode, Grzegorz Godlewski, Artur Wolny and Marek Urbanowicz discuss how they approach this particular type of de…

📚 ABOUT THE EPISODE Are you considering moving to Monorepos with your projects? In the 22th episode Grzegorz, Artur and Marek share their valueable opinions and experiences realted to working with these. Tune in to learn about the potential benefits and challenges of this approach. 📑 TOPICS COVERED 👉 We share subjective opinions and experiences fro…

📚 ABOUT THE EPISODE In the 21th episode Grzegorz Godlewski and Artur Wolny share their negative experiences with implementing Microservices. Three examples of misuse of that useful pattern shows us that even the greatest idea can lead us down the blind alley, when we are narrow-minded about it. Listen and take conclusions from those lessons that we…

📚 ABOUT THE EPISODE In the 20th episode of the main series Grzegorz Godlewski, Marek Urbanowicz and Artur Wolny discuss their experiences and preferences regarding the implementation of Continuous Deployment. With this episode we complete our micro-series focused on CI/CD implementation. We strongly believe that all code should hit production as so…

📚 ABOUT THE EPISODE In the 19th episode of the main series Grzegorz Godlewski, Marek Urbanowicz and Artur Wolny discuss their experiences and preferences regarding the implementation of Continuous Integration. We really encourage you to give this episode a listen, as we're sure that having a great CI implementation is key to launching products fast…

📚 ABOUT THE EPISODE Welcome to the 18th episode of the main series! This time Grzegorz Godlewski and Marek Urbanowicz met up to discuss their experience and recommendations on implementing background jobs. Any system which is growing in scale, will need those at some point either to implement performance improvements (by putting some work into the …

📚 ABOUT THE EPISODE Welcome to the 17th episode of the main series! This time we reach the bottom of the Test Pyramid, focusing on the most common type of test: the Unit Test. As big fans of TDD (Test Driven Development) we happily discuss our experiences and approaches. We cover proven benefits which you could use as support material in introducin…

📚 ABOUT THE EPISODE Welcome to the 16th episode! We continue our step-down and share with you our understanding of integration tests and best practices we've learned when implementing them. In the IT world full of APIs, SaaS and databases, checking how your code collaborate with third parties is a must have. Want to know our way of integration test…

📚 ABOUT THE EPISODE In the 15th episode we met to discuss the matter of E2E (end-to-end) tests. Definitely one of the most difficult types of testing which also has considerable benefits, next to a comparable list of drawbacks. We decided that from this episode we'll aim to deliver shorter content, so that you can enjoy it more spontaneously 🎧, wit…

📚 ABOUT THE EPISODE In the 14th episode we met in our full squad to talk about our hands-on experiences of data consistency challenges. Each of us has brought one detailed example from his career that challenged us to make the choice between strong and eventual consistency. Did you have to make that decision? Or maybe you're about to make one? List…

📚 ABOUT THE EPISODE In the 13th episode of the main series, we hosted a friend of ours: Jarosław Wiśniewski, who's working as Technical Leader and Architect at Viessmann R&D Center. Together with Jarek, we talked about "Why long-term projects are really awesome". We did it by sharing valuable experiences, lessons learned and actionable tips you mig…

📚 ABOUT THE EPISODE In the 12th episode of the main series, we hosted Pierre de Wulf - the co-founder and one of the core developers of ScarpingBee. Tune in to learn about Pierre, his path to running a successful business and the challenges he had to face along the way. In this episode, we also cover the technical challenges of building & operating…

📚 ABOUT THE EPISODE In the 11th episode of the main series, Grzegorz, Marek and Artur talk about their experience with live coding during job interviews for programming positions. How did these look like and if they enjoyed it at all. Tune in to hear about the thoughts and opinions on the matter, along with ideas on how to make it a pleasant experi…

ABOUT THE EPISODE This episode follows up on the subject of challenges in asynchronous communication which was started in episode #009 🧵. Join us for another journey into the depths of this domain! TOPICS COVERED In episode #010, in which we dug deeper into the ground of Asynchronous Communication, talking about: 🔢 How we can deal with "out of orde…

Welcome to episode #009. Today's topic is the Challenges of asynchronous communication. Do you have enough of waiting for HTTP responses to finish? Your application times out on a day-to-day basis? Check out the 9th episode to see if async communication patterns can ease, or maybe aggravate your pain? In this episode, you'll learn: 👉 How to determi…

In the fifth bonus episode of the Artistry of Code Snippets series, Grzegorz shares his experience in achieving the "Sustainable Pace of development". Tune in for an interesting story and some good tips on how to implement this practice for yourself or the team you're working with. The steps are simple, and the return of investment is quite fast. W…

Another episode is out live! In the #008 we’ve taken a look at the latest 26th volume of ThoughtWorks’ Technology Radar. Each of us brought a few points of his choice from the report, making a highlights list of things that we find especially interesting, valuable or important in our daily work. If you don’t know what the Technology Radar report is…

Welcome to the “James Bond” of AoC episodes - #007. We used this special opportunity to host a special guest - Nicolas De Boose, Tech Lead from Urbantz. Nicolas is a friendly, warm and open-minded person and a true professional at the same time, which makes him a perfect fit for the position. In our conversation we revealed a few highlights from hi…

In the fourth episode of the Meteor Spotlight podcast, we chat with our friend James Sear, the co-founder of Avion! With a combined experience of 20+ years of building digital products, Tim Ramage and James Sear recognized the inadequacy of online tooling available in user story mapping which led them to build Avion - an intuitive and user-focused …

In this episode, Artur, Marek and Grzegorz share their views and experiences with different forms of so-called "knowledge sharing" on levels of: organizations, teams and individuals. 💡 Some of the ideas can be implemented by you in a matter of hours, some of them require more time and alignment with the surrounding organization. But all of them are…

In the third episode of the Snippet series, Marek shares his 4 tips on the professional development of software developers. If you want to grow as a developer - this episode is for you! Do you have any other tips to help others to grow? Share them in the comments on our social media profiles! Make sure you've subscribed to our podcast, don't hesita…

Another episode released! In #005 we’ve tried to answer the question “Who is the QA anyway?” of delivered software. Is it a manual tester, Quality Assurance Engineer, or someone else? We’ve analyzed the typical process of Agile software development to find an answer. Do you have your opinion already? Press the “play” button and compare it to our fi…

In the third episode of the Snippet series, Grzegorz shares his tips on implementing the "Learn, Apply, Repeat" mantra. If you were looking for ways on how to structure your personal development - you will find this episode really useful! The full article can be found here: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/learn-apply-repeat-grzegorz-godlewski Make s…

Episode #004 is already here! This time we wanted to share with you the selection of tools that might help you forget about the routine tasks and focus on things that really matter (and fortunately machines can’t do them yet 😅 ) - solving business problems. We’ve brought our daily helping tools that can: keep an eye on the code quality and style, h…

In the second episode of The Snippet Series Artur is giving his insights into the topic of proper sizing "unit" for Unit Testing. How to make Unit Testing well-grained? Is every piece of code worth having separate test suite? What to do when the size of your test files overwhelm you? You can find answers to those questions in the episode. 00:00 Int…

In the third episode, Artur, Marek and Grzegorz share their approach towards refactoring of code. How to be well prepared? What to focus on? What to avoid while performing refactoring? Answers to these and other questions can be found inside. Make sure you subscribe to the show in your podcasting app! You can also drop us a review :)…

In the first episode of our SNIPPETS series, which we deliver to you with a promise of all episodes being not longer than 10 minutes, Marek talks about migrating the code to TypeScript, the ways to do that right and safe, but also explaining why it is a business decision, not only a technical one. In this episode you will hear about: 🎼 00:00 Intro …

In episode #002 we’ve brought up the topic that some love, others hate, but all of us need to take care of eventually. Errors, defects, mistakes, bugs... It’s all about them, or rather how to get rid of them and make it stay this way. In this episode you will hear about: 👉 00:00 Intro 🎼 👉 00:30 How grateful we are for your feedback and attention 🤗🥰…

Who we are, what we do, where we are from. In the first episode: Artur, Marek and Grzegorz talk about: - measuring the value of software delivery, - "managing the time" or rather, "managing ourselves in time", - handling our egos at work, - introducing "Programmers Workout" to the weekly plan. We would like to hear your feedback! Tell us what you t…

In this episode, we cover everything that happened in 2021 from releases to Meteor Cloud launch, Push-to-Deploy, NPM installer, Meteor Impact, and much more. There was a lot to cover on this episode which included: * Meteor Cloud launch * Free deploy with shared MongoDB * Node.js 14 update * NPM installer * Meteor Compat Packages * Meteor Impact/Me…

In this episode, we cover everything from releases to Meteor Meetups, the new 2.4 release, The Meteor Spotlight Podcast, Meteor Impact 2021. There was a lot to cover on the open-source side, which included: Meteor 2.4 Highlights: Newcomers: Meteor NPM installer is now available for all platforms. Performance: reify has been updated to v0.22.1 which…

In the third episode of the Meteor Monthly Spotlight, we sit down with Nick Alt, the Founder and CEO of VNYL. VNYL is a platform that curates and studies your music profile to hand-pick new vinyl albums you will love & they ship right to your door. In the podcast, Nick explains how VNYL hand-curate 3 records specific to you every month and are base…

In the second episode of the Meteor Monthly Spotlight, we chat with our friend Eric Omeig, the co-founder of Boom Learning. Eric Oemig is a former Washington State Senator and the technical co-founder of Boom Learning. His company’s flagship product, Boom Cards, is used by millions of students around the world. Boom Cards are built on Meteor and ha…

In this episode, we cover everything from releases to Meteor Meetups, the new 2.3, 2.3.1, 2.3.2 release, as well as Meteor Impact 2021. There was a lot to cover on the open-source side, which included: Meteor 2.3, 2.3.1, 2.3.2 Highlights: New env variable METEOR_TOOL_ENABLE_REIFY_RUNTIME_CACHE New flag --platforms have been added to the build comma…

We're excited to introduce you to a new series - the Meteor Monthly Spotlight! We'll be featuring different companies in this new series and learning how they're building with Meteor. In this episode, we're chatting with our friends at Qualia, a digital real estate platform. Qualia has been building with Meteor for some time and raised their Series…

After taking a little break, we're back full force! In this episode, we cover everything from releases to Meteor Meetups and our new podcast structure. There was a lot to cover on the open-source side, which included: Meteor 2.2 Highlights: MongoDB 4.4.4 updated Typescript 4.2.2 updated Cordova 10 updated Blaze HMR New Operator for MiniMongo Deprec…

We covered a lot of ground in February! On this episode of the Meteor Monthly Wrap-Up, Filipe and Matt discuss developments on the open-source side, including: Meteor 2.1 (Node.js security release): Node.js released its update on Feb 23rd, and we released ours just the next day. A trend that we're hoping to continue, especially with security releas…

In this episode of the Meteor Monthly Wrap-Up, we dive into the two major releases in the past month: Meteor Cloud and Meteor 2.0. To kick it off, we discuss the specifics of Meteor Cloud and why we made the changes - which include: The thought behind the Meteor Cloud design, layout and new UI The return of the free plan and who it's meant for What…

In this episode Matt and Filipe discuss the major items worked on in the past month: The 1.12 release, Meteor Cloud and Meteor 2.0 progress. Please enjoy! The most recent release was Meteor 1.12, which included TypeScript update to 4.1.2 (we were using TypeScript 3 before) with Decorators and Metadata Reflection. Please see the our blog for full re…

Welcome to the second episode of the Meteor Monthly Wrap-Up! In this show, Matt and Filipe cover a lot of ground. October 2020 was a busy month! First and foremost, thank you to all of the community members who contributed to the success of the Meteor Impact Conference! Special thanks to Jan Dvorak (Storyteller), who played a huge role in getting i…

Welcome to our new show! The Meteor Monthly Wrap-Up is exactly what it sounds: A monthly podcast showcasing everything that we've done over the past month on both the Open Source side of the core framework and on Galaxy Hosting. This is one effort of ours to improve our communication with our community. We hope you enjoy! For our first episode we a…