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If data is so important why is it so difficult to access? How I built a data warehouse without any experience

We are constantly told how important data is and how our companies make data driven decisions but in reality, this couldn’t be further from the truth. Innovation is about moving quickly, asking questions and proving hypotheses. Engineering, Product and Business & Marketing (referred to as EPBM from now on) all…

Big Data

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If data is so important why is it so difficult to access?
If data is so important why is it so difficult to access?
Big Data

21 min read


Published in Dev Genius

·Jan 10, 2022

How I centralize and distribute my bookmarks

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…

Bookmarks

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How I centralize and distribute my bookmarks
How I centralize and distribute my bookmarks
Bookmarks

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Feb 12, 2021

Au revoir NET-A-PORTER

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. …

Mr Porter

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Au revoir NET-A-PORTER
Au revoir NET-A-PORTER
Mr Porter

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Published in YNAP Tech

·Aug 5, 2020

Beyond GitOps: How we release our Microservices on Kubernetes at YNAP

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…

Kubernetes

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Beyond GitOps: How we release our Microservices on Kubernetes at YNAP
Beyond GitOps: How we release our Microservices on Kubernetes at YNAP
Kubernetes

18 min read


Published in YNAP Tech

·Jul 7, 2020

Microservices: Solving a problem like routing — 2020 update

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…

Microservices

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Microservices: Solving a problem like routing — 2020 update
Microservices: Solving a problem like routing — 2020 update
Microservices

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Jun 23, 2020

YNAP at 20

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. …

Fashion

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YNAP at 20
YNAP at 20
Fashion

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Published in YNAP Tech

·Feb 7, 2020

Using image scanning to make our environments safer

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…

Kubernetes

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Using image scanning to make our environments safer
Using image scanning to make our environments safer
Kubernetes

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Published in YNAP Tech

·Dec 9, 2019

import {wtf } from ‘JavaScript’;

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. Below are five of the questions, give them a go and see how…

JavaScript

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import {wtf } from ‘JavaScript’;
import {wtf } from ‘JavaScript’;
JavaScript

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Published in YNAP Tech

·Dec 6, 2019

How we built a service worker for our micro-frontend

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…

Web Development

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How we built a service worker for our Micro Frontends
How we built a service worker for our Micro Frontends
Web Development

11 min read


Published in YNAP Tech

·Sep 17, 2018

Microservices: Solving a problem like routing — part 2

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…

Nodejs

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Microservices: Solving a problem like routing — part 2
Microservices: Solving a problem like routing — part 2
Nodejs

6 min read

Robin Glen

Robin Glen

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Director at gullwing.io

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