By Teresa Mouro Pinto and Yara Neves Yara Neves and Teresa Pinto are Junior Product Designers at FARFETCH and guess what they have in common with José Neves? The love for fashion! They accepted the challenge of contributing to the shaping of the luxury industry. As part of the first…

|by Hugo Miguel Dias, Engineering Lead According to the ITIL v4 definition (source: ITIL Foundation — ITIL 4 Edition), a problem is a cause or potential cause of one or more incidents. In a continuously evolving platform, it is inevitable that incidents will occur. If we don’t experience failures from…

By Felipe Lino, Senior Software Engineer — .NET At FARFETCH, we live in a very nice and pleasant world of microservices, running everything on containers, using our Docker images. But working with containers has its pitfalls. In this article, I’m going to cover a little bit about the Infrastructure &…

Nelson Parente, Software Engineer In my first article for the F-Tech Blog, Authorization and Authentication @ FARFETCH, we covered core concepts of Identity and how these concepts evolved and are handled at FARFETCH. We understood the difference between Authentication, “who are you?”, and Authorization, “what can you do?”, understood the…

By Francisco Sousa, Senior Software Engineer — .NET, and Paulo Barbosa, Junior Software Engineer — Full Stack at FARFETCH “Businesses need to be agile, test hypotheses cheaply, and respond quickly to new market insights by keeping development cycles short and data models flexible.” — Martin Kleppmann Successful internet services require…

By Breno Lima, Senior Service Delivery Specialist In the Agile world, Jira has earned the reputation as the Agile tool. However, does simply using Jira’s out-of-the-box solution make you Agile? Actually, Jira is a great Process Automation suite. But to take full advantage of it, you must implement it with…

By Nelson Gomes — Software Engineer and Paulo Ventura — Senior Software Engineer — .NET The main goal of any recommendations engine, particularly our own Inspire by FARFETCH, is to, well, inspire. To achieve that, we need to adapt and evolve our product (you can read all about that here!)…

By Sairah Chaudry, Analytics Technology Manager 2020 has been a year of many Data Privacy challenges, affecting websites and mobile apps. There were: Browser changes — Stricter web browser safeguards against 3rd party cookies, which causes remarketing challenges for advertisers IDFA Consent — Apple introduced user consent for advertising (via…

By Lino Silva, Engineering Lead Context This exploration was done by the Labs team on September 10th 2020 to find possible opportunities in using 5G networks. The team used Miro as a tool to document the session, and the results can be checked in the image below.