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15  mars     09h11
SwiftUI, a quicker way of doing things
Nalin Aswani    You may have noticed iPhones don’t exactly look the same... A lot has changed internally, User Interface UI components look far different than they used to. ...
27  février     05h18
From Database to Domain: Elevating Software Development with DDD Introduction
Renlester De Guzman    In the complex landscape of software development, aligning design methodologies with business needs is crucial. Domain Driven Design DDD emerges as a key approach in addressing this alignment, especially in projects characterized by intricate business rules and processes. This methodology stands...
25  janvier     05h29
Making the case for the WebView
Campbell Graham    Learning to embrace a hybrid approach for mobile app development: Native apps are best Like the rest of the native mobile app development community, I typically agree with the notion that native is best when it comes to mobile apps. After all, these are the technologies we spend tens of hours...
04  octobre     05h16
Decreasing CI Build times up to 50% by caching derived data using github actions.
Gareth Lloyd    We had a problem. Our CI pipeline was increasingly becoming a bottleneck in our iOS continuous integration. We here at Kogan like to develop at a fast pace, however we were constantly being held up waiting for builds to complete, leading to a lot of frustration within the team. The rest of the...
22  août     09h07
Project Spotlight: Optimizing ChannelAdvisor Integration: Real-Time Product Catalog Synchronization
Stephen De Vaux    Introduction: In today’s e commerce landscape, seamless integration with third party platforms is essential for expanding reach and boosting sales. This technical blog post delves into Kogan.com’s ChannelAdvisor integration project, offering insights to software engineers on event driven...
14  juin     06h23
Project Spotlight: Optimise Product Updates Creates on pipelines
Kogan Dev Blog    Challenge Our platform which houses millions of products were subject to regular updates by Marketplace sellers via APIs or by Kogan.com’s internal teams. However, an arduous average update pipeline duration of hours hindered the prompt visibility of these changes to customers on the website or...
16  mai     23h14
5 Simple Tips For Optimising Query Performance in BigQuery
Mark Elsden    Optimizing Query performance in BigQuery presents large cost saving opportunities for the Engineering Team as well as a speed boost which benefits the business, stakeholders and developers alike.Following on from our meeting with the Google team, I was inspired to do some further learning and...
20  avril     01h08
Hack Day - Chat (Khat) GPT
Gareth Lloyd    Why did the AI buying assistant start a stand up comedy career Because it knows how to find the best deals of laughter Here is hoping ChatGPT is better at being a buying assistant than it is at writing jokes ChatGPT is the hottest topic around the industry and, inspired by a recent tech talk by...
03  novembre     09h54
Kogan.com Engineering Growth Paths
Anita Rajalingam    Committed to learning and continuous improvement, Kogan.com’s Engineering team develops its engineering talent through giving and taking responsibility, co creation, mentorship, and the opportunity to experience internal secondments to grow skill sets. As our Engineering teams continue to expand,...
11  octobre     23h12
Improving our Android build performance
Fan Chao    Here at the Kogan.com Engineering team, we care about developer experience: everytime an engineer makes any code changes, they have to go through the Edit Compile Run cycle. Every day we go through this cycle hundreds of times, so any degradation of the build time would have a big impact on our...
26  juillet     00h27
Hack Day Image search
Michael Sidharta    What if we could just upload an image of what we want to buy into our favourite shopping website’s search bar Wouldn’t that make life about x easier These are questions that my team and I attempted to answer during our last hack day. We are always looking into ways of making the online...
20  juillet     05h43
Django Admin and Deleting Related Objects
Alec McGavin    What’s wrong with the UX in this image ...
11  juillet     23h57
Widgeting around Kogan.com Hack Day
Kogan Dev Blog    There’s never any rivalry between Mobile developers vs Web developers, right Well, the intrigue of what happens in the more exciting mobile development space piqued the interest of our frontend and backend mates, so a few joined the Kogan Apps team along with our talented UX designer to tackle a...
25  mai     09h53
What is User Acceptance Testing?
Ali Toosi    Once upon a time, a clinical laboratory realised that, if instead of having to find the paper documents related to each test and writing down the results by hand they could have a smart monitor, they would save a lot of time.The practitioner would only tap on the test they were working on and...
20  avril     00h03
MARCH 2022 HACKDAY (Part 1) The Morse Man bot
Stephen De Vaux    .... . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . The above elegant line of dits and dahs is Morse code. Developed in the s, it has stood the test of time, and with its combination of nostalgia, intrigue and retro vibe, it’s primed for a resurgence in popularity. Instant...
16  mars     03h49
Celebrating International Women’s day
Anita Rajalingam    Tuesday March was International Women’s Day, a celebration of women and their achievements. A day of celebrating the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women. This day also marks a call to action for accelerating women’s equality. This year we thought we’d celebrate by...
08  mars     23h38
Technology Talks
Sean Gayler    I recently delivered a short talk to the Kogan.com engineering team on GraphQL a technology that has not yet seen adoption at the company, but for which there arguably exists a need. Customers shop on Kogan.com across devices with different data requirements, and our reliance on traditional REST...
09  février     22h37
DECEMBER 2021 HACKDAY (PART 3) v2
Hanna Koskela    Tick tick, boom gate opens ...
17  janvier     05h17
DECEMBER 2021 HACKDAY (PART 2)
Adam Slomoi    whiteandgold or blackandblue You’d be forgiven for choosing to live under a rock for the past two years, but in case you were doing so in and have no idea what those hashtags are referring to, look up: the dress .
10  janvier     04h48
DECEMBER 2021 HACKDAY (PART 1)
Ana Teo    Twas the week before Christmas... ...and like a ghost from the Charles Dickens classic, the Kogan Hackday was back to give the talented members of the Engineering team an opportunity to think of something other than what to add to last year’s Christmas shopping list. What do image...