ShipShip—The Automated Kanban Board
We work with multiple distributed teams. To keep everyone on the same page, we built an automatic tool called ShipShip to help keep information flowing.
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Functional Thinking
Functional Programming is more than a set of principles. It’s a paradigm; a different way of thinking. It focuses on the “what” is being done, as opposed to the “how” it’s being done as in Object Oriented and Imperative paradigms. The first functional programming language was created in 1960 (LISP), but interestingly, Functional Programming is…
Feature teams 101
When I joined the company there was only an engineering team. As we started to grow we ended up splitting into three teams. There was the mandatory platform team that doesn’t require further explanation. The other two teams had wittier names and focused on the different aspects of the business. One dealt with merchants, carriers…
How to keep track of workload in an Agile manner
When you work on an Agile tech company like Shutl there are many things happening at the same time every week. Developers are constantly shipping new features and maintaining the company’s systems working to make clients happy. Sometimes this means adding features, sometimes this means fixing bugs that only manifest on remote corner cases and therefore…
Distributed orchestration and consensus discovery with a low bandwidth asynchronous signalling protocol
Jazz hands for great meetings When grownups have meetings, they tend to have grownup meetings. When developers have meetings, they tend to just talk at each other for a while until they get bored.