Why Attending a Coding Challenge is Definitely Worth It
Putting your coding skills to the test in a coding challenge gives you the chance to prove yourself and your expertise. Here’s how it works…
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RuntastiCARES – How We Take (Corporate) Social Responsibility
At Runtastic, we believe in giving everybody the chance to live a more aware and active lifestyle, leading to a longer, happier …
Should I Convert My Data into a More Efficient Representation?
Do you think about the internal implementation of the collection? Do you think about the advantages and/or disadvantages that it comes with? Should you care?
All About Testing: How Quality Assurance Works at Runtastic
In this post, we will reflect on how the Runtastic QA team is working now, following up on our last post on why we think the transition was important…
How International Runtastics Adapt to the Austrian Way of Life
Runtastic has always grown like crazy. Ever since we started professionalizing our hiring process in late 2014, we have more than doubled …
MessageBus – How and What We Defined as Content for Our Messages
This post gives deeper insight into the actual content of our messages, explaining what we send within a message, what other possibilities we considered…
Why Agile was the Right Choice for Our Runtastic QA Team
This post discusses the benefits and challenges of transitioning from Waterfall to Agile methodology, specifically from a Quality Assurance perspective…
Proud Together – Why Diversity Needs to be Celebrated
Our team has more than 40 different nationalities. However, diversity is so much more than this. And it’s high time to talk about it.
How We Use React Native Within Our Products at Runtastic
Very likely most of you don’t know it, but we at Runtastic are using React Native as a framework for our News Feed to improve social interaction between our users…
How to increase search engine relevance in ElasticSearch
We wanted to delight our users with a fast and smart search. Our technology of choice was ElasticSearch…
4 Reasons Why Your Fitness Level Is Not A Hiring Criteria
“Do I have to run a marathon if I want to work for Runtastic?”, “Can I even apply if I don’t do any sports?”…
Better Collaboration: 5 Steps to Being Friends with Designers
In my earlier days, it used to be very stressful for me when it came time to hand off my web designs to the developer…
Tales from the Wild: Hunting and Squashing Production Bugs
The morning of the release was fun. I had just arrived at my desk and my colleague said, “The workers are down.”…
Runtastic at the WeAreDevelopers World Congress 2018
In his five years at Runtastic, our iOS Dev Dominik has visited the WeAreDevelopers Congress in Vienna three times already. Not just …
5 Lessons Learned From Running Automated Tests on a Data Warehouse
“Testing? A database?” you might ask. “Yes! We do!” There is a lot of code directly inside a database …
Inside Kotlin Collections. Part 3
by Andrew Khrystian, Software Engineer Android @Runtastic In the two previous articles we talked about collections structure and all the possible ways …
Basic Overview of Static and Dynamic Frameworks on iOS
Applications tend to grow and so does their source code. Hence, structuring the codebase into manageable components is vital…
MessageBus – Using a Message Bus to Decouple Our Services and Allow Scaling
Written by Martin Führlinger, Software Engineer Backend Why decoupling our services matters As I already described in my last blog-post about database …