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How to start a retrospective meeting
Every retrospective should have an agenda and consist of the following phases: Setting the stage Gathering data Generating insights Deciding what to do Closing the retrospective In this article I’m going to focus on the first phase. Prepare the room…
Conversational bots in cloud
As mentioned in the previous article, our company uses conversational bot to improve recruitment process. See below for some stack decisions we took during development. When exploring a new technological area, I always start from checking solutions provided on cloud platforms.…
How to prepare to job interview
All people are wondering what is important during a recruitment interview, for what recruiters pay attention to, and what is completely irrelevant for them. There are many myths about dress code. What is important, very important is to have clean…
4Developers 2019
At 8 of April 2019 I took part in a big (2300 participants) conference 4Developers. 4Developers is event not focused on the specific programming language or technology, but it mix many of them. Attendees could choose lectures among architecture, backend, frontend,…
Effective daily meetings
Daily Scrum, daily stand-up, daily huddle – many names, same idea. But does everyone understand it? During my career I’ve seen many teams and their daily meetings. Some of them were short and productive, others were long and aimless. I…
Bots, bots everywhere
At Pretius, we continuously look for new areas we can develop competence in. Constantly growing market of conversational bots is drawing our attention in particular. Polish premiere of Google Assistant prompted us to create our own bot. For already two moths now,…
Diversity & richness of front-end environment
There is something very unique about IT working environment. As I have struggled throughout many kinds of work I have never experienced such a desire to share your knowledge with other people as I have right now while working in…
Why you should choose the microservices architecture?
Microservices architecture has grown in popularity in software development recently. The traditional way (using the monolithic architecture) of developing enterprise applications has become problematic when applications grow and get more composed. IT architects are turning to a microservices software development…
Computerworld ‘Zarządzanie zespołami IT’
On 24 and 25 January the 6th edition of conference Computerworld Zarządzanie zespołami IT was held in Warsaw. If you were not able to participate and you are curious to know what happened during this event, please read the blog. The opening…
Testing software using the Spock Framework
Developing tests is a topic often overlooked in the process of developing software. The workload required to create and maintain them, the amount of boilerplate code that is necessary to check simple functionalities and the lack of clear benefit are…
