The source code of Allegro iOS app for buyers used to be divided into separate modules hosted in multiple repositories (polyrepo). The source code was migrated to a monorepo a few years back along with the history of all repos that constituted the app. Updating source code of a module on one repository could affect another module hosted on a separate repository. Versioning modules and propagation of dependency update led to long release process of the entire application. Our main repository for the iOS application thus became our monorepo. After 9 years of development of the app the repo size has grown enormously and the git clone command became a nightmare taking too much time. We had a possibility to shrink the project size during the migration from an on-premise to an external git repo hosting provider.
A new version of MongoDB, 5.0, has been recently launched. The list of changes included one that I found particularly interesting: the time series collections. It is a method of effective storing and processing of time-ordered value series. In this article we will verify whether the processing of time series is really as fast as promised by the authors.
The Clean Architecture concept has been around for some time and keeps surfacing in one place or another, yet it is not widely adopted. In this post I would like to introduce this topic in a less conventional way: starting with customer’s needs and going through various stages to present a solution that is clean enough to satisfy concepts from the aforementioned blog (or the book with the same name).
At some point in your career, you realize that it’s time to try to advance through the hierarchy. You think you are doing a good job. You are constantly developing and learning something new. But at the same time, someone you know, with much less experience and knowledge than you, has long been higher up the hierarchy than you. Then you ask yourself: what is wrong with me? In my case, the answer turned out to be properly gathering the expectations concerning my skills and work.
Micronaut is one of the new application frameworks that have recently sprung up. It promises low memory usage and faster application startup. At Allegro we decided to give it a try. In this article we’ll learn what came out of it and if it’s worth considering when creating microservices-based systems.
Every e-commerce platform needs some kind of central authorization system. At Allegro we use OAuth and have our own implementation that stays true to the RFC. Allegro has millions of users. There are also a lot of requests that go through OAuth services. At some point there comes a need to have better control over how much traffic we want to allow in a certain time window, while maintaining full performance of the platform. Here is where the idea of rate-limiting comes in handy.
