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.
By Pedro Marques, Mobile Engineer — iOS
At Farfetch, we have developed a Native Mobile UI (NMUI) framework which we use to assemble our iOS apps. This framework enables us to build complex screens very quickly while still being fully native. Currently, we are transitioning some of our development flow…
By Cláudia Conceição, Software Engineer — Front End
One of the key objectives of our core Experimentation team at FARFETCH is to provide a single experimentation framework across the company. …
By Dinis Peixoto, Software Engineer
At FARFETCH, teams are encouraged to try new development methodologies so that they can deliver even better results while also improving productivity. As a fairly new team, we have continuously been looking for different methodologies that best fit our needs, such as avoiding knowledge silos…
