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Live, interactive training: Continuous Learning programme and Coding Dojo

raffaella rossini

June 01, 2022 - ⏱️ 2 min read

At lastminute.com we are lucky enough to have among our colleagues people who are very good at their job, and also care about supporting the professional growth of others. Thanks to them, we pulled together what we call the “Continuous Learning” programme. Keep reading to find out more. [...]

It's FriYAY! It's time for deep work and/or learning and development

raffaella rossini

May 20, 2022 - ⏱️ 1 min read

At lastminute.com we are experimenting with our working hours to support in a structural way learning, development, productivity, and wellbeing. Our Friday is now called FriYAY!, and in this first blog post of a short series I’ll tell you about it. [...]

Blockchain Dapp and Modern Software Engineering

fabio fiorella

May 10, 2022 - ⏱️ 10 min read

Block'n'poll a complete example of a full stack web application interacting with Algorand Blockchain [...]

Contract testing asynchronous messaging with Pact and MockK

fabrizio duroni

felice giovinazzo

stefano varesi

April 02, 2022 - ⏱️⏱️ 17 min read

In the last weeks I worked with my colleague Felice Giovinazzo on a new feature for the refund process. Let’s see how we used pact to test a message-based interaction between two microservices with Pact [...]

Infrastructure

alessandro gazzoni

lorenzo girardi

March 08, 2022 - ⏱️ 4 min read

In this sixth and last blog post of the series about our Tech ecosystem we present our journey from an on-premise data center to a hybrid, multi-cloud strategy and the technical choices made so far. [...]

Data and Machine Learning

armando pannella

alessandro rozza

February 15, 2022 - ⏱️ 6 min read

In this fifth blog post of the series about our Tech landscape we share about our Data environment for big data and warehouse, as well as the ecosystem powering Machine Learning and other advanced analytical solutions. [...]

DevOps & Observability

alessandro gazzoni

lorenzo girardi

January 27, 2022 - ⏱️ 3 min read

In this fourth blog post of the series about our Tech ecosystem we introduce the principles and practices we've put in place to implement a devOps model and mindset as well as how we're going to implement a comprehensive observability strategy. [...]

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