At a large company there are thousands of different internal URLs, from multiple development environments, workflow tools and HR systems. New tools are often introduced, old ones decommissioned or hostnames changed, I often joked that if I cleared my internet history I wouldn’t be able to do my job. The…

Over ten years ago I got lost walking around Westfield London trying to find the NET-A-PORTER offices. The next day I had an interview with “some fashion company that sells expensive dresses”- as I then described it to my friends. …

In recent posts I have talked about our adoption of Kubernetes, in this post I’m going to talk about how we release our applications into our cluster. I recommend making a brew because we are going down the rabbit hole, as before I even start, I think I need to…

Well, where did those last two years go? Apologies for my tardiness, time really got the better of me. The good news is, we’ve had a further two years of production experience, improving performance, catching bugs, adding features and completely changing our infrastructure. In the final part of this series…

This week YOOX NET-A-PORTER turned twenty and within a month I will have been there for half of it. I was asked if I would write about my time here, any favourite memories or stories I wanted to tell over that time. …

At YOOX NET-A-PORTER GROUP, we build and deploy thousands (literally!) of containers daily. To keep our Kubernetes environments safe, we strive to follow best practices. However, securing Docker containers is a broad topic. We follow best practices such as never allowing them to run as root, only using official base…

It’s that time of the year again, Christmas party season and I’m starting to write this year’s YOOX NET-A-PORTER GROUP Pub Quiz. Last year I included an extremely unpopular round of weird and (maybe) interesting JavaScript quirks. …

Over the last year we have been building the new MR PORTER website (currently available in many of our markets) and THE OUTNET on our new brand-agnostic micro-frontend architecture. Although we had not done a complete discovery phase around Progressive Web Apps we knew service worker offered us features we…

This is the second part in a series around how we designed, build and introduced a new routing tier at YNAP, Part 1 is available here. Doing our homework We knew what we wanted to build now we needed to make sure, whatever we did, this new application could handle our peak traffic…