A glimpse into the life of a Software Engineer at Kogan.com

A glimpse into the life of a Software Engineer at Kogan.com

A career in software engineering can open a lot of exciting doors, allowing you to support key business initiatives, create new software features and functionalities, and help to keep everything running effectively. For many software engineers, there's so much variety to their days, with the work they're carrying out changing from day-to-day (or even hour-to-hour).

We took a glimpse on what life as an engineer looks like at Kogan.com. Anita our Talent Acquisition Lead sat down with Software Engineer Michael to explore this. He shares his biggest learnings on the job so far, his career journey, and what life is like for him at Kogan.com.

Django Test Splitting on Circle CI

Django Test Splitting on Circle CI

Django Test Splitting on Circle CI

One of the most important things you can do for your development teams' productivity is to shorten the feedback loop during development. This applies to getting feedback from customers or stakeholders to ensure you're building the right thing, as much as it does to testing the code you're writing to ensure no bugs have crept into your change set.

Today we're focusing on the Development - Test feedback loop. Developing a change and running your regression test suite to validate that change should be as fast as possible.

We've used three different systems to run our unit tests over the last few years. Beginning with a self-hosted Jenkins instance, transitioning to Travis CI, and finally arriving at Circle CI.

React JS Melbourne - August Meetup

Last Thursday we had the React Meetup once again! A quick summary of talks and relevant links are set out below:

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Three speakers covered these topics:

  • Ben Teese talked on how to implement component/data colocation with Apollo Client and React - Slides

  • Alec McGavin spoke about what really happens when a React component re-renders - Repo

  • Basarat Ali Syed showed us the GLS layout system and how to make development at Australia Post a breeze - Link

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Interest in attending a meetup? Join us next quarter! - https://www.meetup.com/React-Melbourne/