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. To achieve
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. 1. A
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 ready. Either it is
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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