DevOpsDays Antwerp, 2024 This was an extraordinary edition, considering we were celebrating 15 years of DevOpsDays Ghent (the OG DevOpsDays), albeit in Antwerp this time (Ghent-east if we want to make it sound more canonical). There were a lot of familiar faces, both in the crowd and on stage. As Kris Buytaert mentioned,
Introducing Code Conventions in Liquid Development Teams I joined Silverfin over six years ago as the third member of what was then called the Professional Services Team, which has since evolved into the Business Solutions (BSO) team. Our team operates as a product team and specialises in building and managing solutions (i.e. templates) on the Silverfin
Our Engineering Philosophy We’ve grown. As of this writing, our Engineering Department is 35 strong, with folks spanning the gamut of skill sets, titles, seniority and tenure with the company. The entire Silverfin organisation is a mature business, with our platform used by thousands of customers as part of their daily operations.
Improving Gender Diversity in Engineering Looking at DEI in our Technology department, gender diversity in Engineering is a particularly significant opportunity for growth, which is why it's currently a focus area. There have always been very few women in Engineering, but a critical point was reached with the departure of the last woman
Celebrating Women in Tech! In the fast-paced world of technology, women are breaking barriers, and leaving their mark. Let's dive into the personal journeys and insights of these incredible women here at Silverfin: Meet Delphine, a Junior Solution Developer. For her, International Women's Day is about sparking meaningful conversations and
Reflections on CfgMgmtCamp 2024: A Fusion of AI, Infrastructure, and DevOps Innovation There were a crazy number of folks at CfgMgmgCamp this year, and even more crazy was the number of first-timers. This was the tenth edition (if you count the Portland and Berlin editions). For the team, it's probably about the fifth or sixth. General themes were (what did
Retreat November 2023: A new format with openspace(s) and enhanced team bonding This year's Belgium edition of our bi-annual engineering retreat (we do one in BE and one elsewhere on a yearly basis) was a bit different from previous editions. We revamped the format to be more integrative and collaborative, and aligned more with our recent evolution to product-led teams.
DevopsDays Amsterdam 2023 As to our yearly tradition, we were present at DevopsDays Amsterdam. Here are our notes.
Unlocking the Power of GPT-4 for Automated Financial Analysis with Silverfin Explore the integration of GPT-4 with Silverfin to revolutionize financial analysis and accounting. Learn to harness GPT-4 API for enhanced insights and automation within the Silverfin platform.
I'm telling you it's that flaky spec again! We sometimes rush to put labels on stuff. Are a couple of retries enough to characterize an E2E spec flaky??? Shame on you..! Case study Let's try to break an E2E spec run down to its atoms. Its (over simplified) core components for our study are the following.
7 ways to improve your next support rotation with event storage In every software company, part of engineering responsibilities is to help the Support Team resolve customer issues and maintain the stability of the application by responding to errors and alerts. In this article, I want to briefly describe the benefits for engineers working on support issues of having an application
Silverfin Takeaways, KubeCon Valencia 🍊 Leading cloud native pioneers and open-source community members gathered in beautiful and warm Valencia. The last time Silverfin Cloud Infrastructure engineers were able to join KubeCon was pre-corona (Barcelona, 2019), so it felt good to be back. We met many great people, saw many exciting projects, and networked with our
Provisioning compute instances with Chef from Terraform The problem When Terraform 0.13.4 [https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/announcing-hashicorp-terraform-0-15-general-availability] was released, various provisioners, including the Chef provisioner, were deprecated [https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/notice-terraform-to-begin-deprecation-of-vendor-tool-specific-provisioners-starting-in-terraform-0-13-4/13997] with no replacement. They were later removed in Terraform 0.15 [https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/announcing-hashicorp-terraform-0-15-general-availa
Featured PostgreSQL zero-downtime migration of a primary key from int to bigint (with Ruby on Rails specific notes) “90% what?” “I said this table is at 90%.” “Of what?” “Of int values for its primary key.” “That .. doesn’t sound good.” “No, if it gets to 100% we’re down.” “That’s not good.” “No, captain obvious.” “So what do we do?” “We have to migrate it to
Get to know Youp, our Talent Acquisition Specialist When you apply for an engineering job at Silverfin, the first person to contact you will be Youp, our Talent Acquisition Specialist. He’ll assist you throughout the whole recruiting process: smoothly organising the interviews and meetings and making sure you’re well informed of the process and what’ll
Always set explicit timeouts Our next ticket is to implement another integration with 3rd party HTTP API. As it's in life, the documentation is imprecise, provided examples are outdated, and nobody is responding to our e-mails. It's not the first one though, so after some time we do have it
Mob Debugging Here at Silverfin, we encourage pair programming for knowledge sharing, instant code reviews, and overall better code quality. There have been occasions of mob programming [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mob_programming] as well when we got together on-site or during a retreat. Mob programming is like pair programming, but
remote work Featured How to work remotely when you don’t want to Sometimes circumstances force us to work remotely. Here are a few tips and tricks that have been battle tested by our teams, that could hopefully help you in the remote adventure.
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