MessageBus – Automated Documentation of our Messages
Written by Martin Führlinger, Software Engineer Backend ALL ABOUT MESSAGE BUS Welcome to the 6th post in this message bus …
Tech @ Runtastic
Interesting insights into everything tech at Runtastic and what we are currently working on in the way of IT.
How to Keep Your Automated Testing Tools Fast
by Martin Führlinger, Backend Engineer In the backend team we usually try to automate things. Therefore we have tons of …
How Small Changes Led to Significant Scalability Improvements
Written by Martin Führlinger, Backend Engineer At Runtastic we face an increase in traffic on our servers every year. We …
How we improved our sprints when we stopped estimating stories
Written by Andre Schweighofer, Technical Product Owner Despite our best intentions, software projects often get delayed. We, the members of …
The Hidden Cost of Core Data Managed Relationships
Written by Louis Debaere, Software Engineer watchOS Introduction: a shared database library The Runtastic app for iPhone has an Apple …
How We Reduce Regression Testing to 48 Hours
Written by Manuel Kaiser, Software Tester Imagine any repetitive task you are working on. If you increase the time spent …
How Runtastic Developers Chose the Proper Architecture for Our Android Apps
Written by Andrii Khrystian, Android Developer Architecture is always difficult and the subject of many discussions. Throughout the history of …
Refactoring a Multiple State View Using the UIStackView
Written by Nicholas Steppan Meschke, Software Engineer iOS What awaits you As developers who care about the user experience of …
MessageBus – How We Improved Managing Our Dead Letter Queue
In my previous posts about the message bus, I wrote about using RabbitMQ for decoupling our services and how we defined our message content.
Opening Portals to the Database: Making Core Data Easy
Working with databases on iOS can be difficult. Powerful but complex APIs can be a reason for subtle mistakes, slow development, and hard verification of code.
Git Workflows: Should Rebasing Become a Habit for Developers?
I believe that many of us are missing out on the more advanced features of Git. Are they needed or can we cover our bases without them?
MessageBus – Handling Dead Letters in RabbitMQ Using a Dead-letter Exchange
A message can become a dead letter for various reasons. I want to provide more insights into dead letter handling.
One Sprint from the Perspective of the Quality Assurance Team
In our last post we talked about how Quality Assurance works at Runtastic. This post continues the journey by telling you the “behind the scenes”…
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…
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…
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…
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…
