Michael Sidharta    As our project grows, we’re always looking for ways to streamline development, improve performance, and enhance the developer experience. Recently, we’ve been exploring a shift from our traditional Django REST Framework (DRF) API patterns to a combination of Django Ninja API and Pydantic. This blog...

Kogan Dev Blog    In a talent landscape full of competitive opportunities, where change and turnover are part of the norm, Kogan.com stands out as a place where people choose to stay, grow, and advance their careers. Many of our team members have long tenures, with some contributing as long as 12 or 15 years,...

Mark Elsden    The DEBI (Data Engineering and Business Intelligence) team recently attended the DataEngBytes 2025 conference, where the hot topic for the year was, unsurprisingly, AI agents. My favorite talk, by Geoffrey Huntley, presented a powerful and surprisingly simple idea: It’s not that hard to build an...

Jerry Liu    How to load-balance like a seasoned waiterSoftware systems often parallel the real world. Imagine running a busy restaurant, where customers line up to make orders whilst the kitchen prepares the meals. In the software world, your users are the customers, and your backend services are the kitchen....

Karen Fehmer    At Kogan.com, our data needs have grown alongside the business. As more teams relied on insights to move quickly, it became clear our request-based BI model couldn’t scale. We needed a platform that empowered teams to answer their own questions, trust the numbers, and move independently. That...

Andrew Kerton    As developers, we pour our energy into building robust, elegant software. We craft features, optimise performance, and squash bugs. But in today’s world, building secure software is just as crucial. Enter Threat Modeling - not as a bureaucratic chore, but as a practical superpower for developers...

Kogan Dev Blog    We are always excited to welcome new talent to our team At the heart of our engineering culture is a robust and agile onboarding process that gets new joiners up to speed in no time. We pride ourselves on helping our teams hit the ground running, shipping fast, experimenting boldly, and embracing...

Ryan Barker    A B tests are theoretically simple but sometimes offer challenges when insufficient data or events are tracked. In e-commerce, conversion rates are often highlighted as a key metric but what causes it and why. By leveraging additional tools that enable event tracking and session replays such as...

Kogan Dev Blog    Committed to learning and continuous improvement, Kogan.com’s Engineering team develops its engineering talent through giving and taking responsibility, co-creation, mentorship, and internal mobility opportunities to grow and advance their careers. There are opportunities for Engineers at Kogan.com...

Ana Teo    A look into the potential impact of generative AI tools in the creative industry Video Killed the Radio StarThe Buggles’ Video Killed the Radio Star highlights some concerns regarding the rise of technology within the creative industry. Released...

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. The code to create these views has evolved, and as a result, so have the UI components...

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...

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 every...

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...

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...

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 8 hours hindered the prompt visibility of these changes to customers on the website or...

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...

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...

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,...

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...