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Breaking Up The Monolith


Henock Zewde photo How we at IG gradually, safely and confidently migrated IG’s most critical dealing flows from a monolithic, single point of failure booking engine to Microservices.

IG Charts - A Technical Introduction


Sergio Santos photo

I recently gave a technical overview of IG charts at our Krakow IG office. You might find the slides interesting.





The broken promise of static typing


Daniel Lebrero photo I was quite surprised at a recent blog post by Uncle Bob Martin, titled: "Type Wars", in which he writes:

The tragedy of 100% code coverage


Daniel Lebrero photo It is funny how things turn around. ​ For fifteen years I have been preaching TDD (Test-driven development, or as it used to be called: test-first approach), or at least for developers to write some unit tests. However, in recent times I have found myself saying more often, "Why did you write that test?" instead of, "You should write a test."

Charts Incubator


Michael Bird photo Last night someone decided to come into the office at 6pm to work on IG’s charting product for the evening, even though they were on holiday for the week. They were joined by five others who ended up staying until 10pm.

Why did this happen?

Logging levels: the wrong abstraction


Daniel Lebrero photo So you just wrote another try/catch block and again you start wondering: should I log this exception as an ERROR or a WARN? Or perhaps you wrote another one of those conditional branches that “should never happen” and again you start wondering: what log level should I use for this “impossible” case?

You are asking the wrong question.

Never fail the same way twice


Henock Zewde photo At IG we write a lot of software. We have thirty or so teams in multiple geographic locations developing and supporting around two hundred disparate applications and services, utilising a diverse range of technologies old and new.

Pipeline 2016 Conference Review


Gustavo Elias photo I have attended a number of conferences before, though not always as speaker, but Pipeline 2016 has certainly been the most fun to date.

Towards RESTfulness


Lucas Gut Galan photo IG’s journey towards RESTfulness began as a set of REST APIs built for our mobile platforms as an aggregating façade over our internal services. Two years into the journey we realised that we were building an inflexible monolith that tried to support front-ends with very different user experiences, and which required constant enhancements. Change became painful.

In the pursuit of cake


Ian Reay photo Good team dynamics is a critical part of a healthy agile team, so as we were reflecting on our general health and happiness in a bi-weekly retrospective meeting, we decided that we wanted to tackle a team building exercise together.

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