lastminute.com Tech Blog

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

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

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

Contract testing asynchronous messaging with Pact and MockK

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

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

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

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. [...]