Namshi Engineering

Hey folks! from the software engineering community!

It’s #TechThursday at #namshi!

Here is the list with awesome links to keep you busy during the week:

• NodeJS streams bible

• RoboWhois shutting down

• Cash on delivery demand still holding back e-commerce growth in GCC

Hello friends from the software engineering community!

News from the tech team:

Cirpo, Alex, Oba and Manuel went to the first Rocket Internet Global Tech Summit in Berlin last week. Oba and Alex gave two talks about our internal technology and stack. It was a great opportunity to meet and discuss with other tech leads from all the Rocket Internet ventures from all around the world.

It’s #TechThursday at #namshi!

Here is the list with awesome links to keep you busy during the weekend:

• Taco App – a unified task list, getting tasks from 40+ sources

• Become a Better Programmer: 5 Essential Methods at a Glance

• FrontEnd Vs Backend Developer Infographic

Hey folks!

It’s #TechThursday at #namshi!

News from the IT Team:

Cirpo wrote a happy post about completing 1 year at Namshi, we all share the same happiness :) at Namshi.

Here is the list with awesome links to keep you busy during the weekend:

• npm and front-end packaging

• The Genius of Wearing the Same Outfit Every Day

• Google Launches Managed Service For Running Docker-Based Applications On Its Cloud Platform

One year at Namshi… and it feels so good!

When I decided to leave Malaysia I had several options: London, Berlin, Amsterdam, Singapore and New Zealand. In the end I chose Dubai, or better, I chose Namshi. I had positive vibes, so I told myself, “Let’s move to Dubai!”.

In my career I had other awesome, engaging and knowledgeable experiences, but there was always a missing piece. At Namshi I can finally say that I found the working and challenging environment I was looking for.

Hey folks!

It’s #TechThursday at #namshi!

News from the IT Team:

Namshi is now maintaining winston-graylog2! Lucio just merged the first PR!

Cirpo just came back from Munich after giving two interesting talks, read all about it here!

Alex will be hitting SymfonyCon Madrid on November 27-29. He will talk about Namshi’s experience with AngularJs!

Here is the list with awesome links to keep you busy during the weekend:

• SQL powered operating system instrumentation and analytics.

• Regexper: a good way to visualize your regex

• Hints for writing Unix tools

Today, I bade farewell to the team and the culture that introduced me to software development. A year and six months have passed since I landed my first job straight out of college as a Junior Software Engineer at Namshi where I had the great, the average and the bad days. I must admit, time has passed super fast.

I had the opportunity to attend the WebTechCon and the International PHPConference 2014 as speaker in Munich, Germany. The location was very nice, and beeing a foodie, the food was great :).

The only small complaint I have is that in 2014, Tech conference should be in English: I missed a lot of potentially great talks because they were in German.

The International PHP Conference is the world’s first PHP conference and stands since more than a decade while the WebTechCon is taking place since the last 5 years. The fact that you have these two events combined confirms the trend of horizontal events rather than focusing on just one technology or product. Lots of different topics were covered: PHP, Javascript, HTML5, AngularJs, databases, devops, systems, automation, architecture etc.

The concept of an heterogeneous technologies integration was addressed during the opening keynote and was a topic covered in many talks, mine were no exception.

I presented two talks: “Don’t screw it up! How to build durable API” and “PHP is the king, nodejs the prince and Lua the fool”.

Both talks are based on the experience at Namshi, building our current service oriented architecture and API and how our stack is evolving.

At Namshi we believe that attending conferences and meetups is a very important as that helps the team and the individual developers grow. It’s a great opportunity to understand what’s going on in our field and to meet other great developers.

What’s next? If you’re attending SymfonyCon Madrid, don’t miss “Hey, I just met AngularJS, and this is crazy, so here’s my JavaScript, let’s use it maybe” by Alex!

As our herd of node.js apps grows, we soon needed a way to keep an eye on them. Having already in out tool belt a graylog2 facility in place, looking for a way to leverage it was the most natural thing to do.

Because of its nice modular transports feature our node-logging weapon of choice is winston, the graylog2 transport library looked a bit alone though and in need of a maintainer. I our usual give back spirit we choose to adopt the lib instead of publishing a new one, and today we merged our 1st PR! :)

As for now our intervention was isolated to move away from the custom GELF protocol implementation, relying instead on the node-graylog2 library: they’ll most likely do a better job than us on the protocol side, and we’ll be able to focus more on the winston integration. We also started introducing some basic tests: definitely some better work can be done on this side ;)

So here it is: winston-graylog2 and here’s briefly how you use it:

the usual

npm install winston-graylog2

and then

  var winston = require('winston');
  winston.add(require('winston-graylog2'), options);

or

var WinstonGraylog2 = require('winston-graylog2');
var logger = new(winston.Logger)({
        exitOnError: false,
        transports: [new(WinstonGraylog2)(options)]
      });

Enjoy! :)

Publishing something new is always a great feeling, and it’s even more fulfilling when it involves not letting a project die :)
So let us know if you like it and share the love with some RP!!!! ;)

Hey folks!

It’s #TechThursday at #namshi!

Thanks to Shidhin, we have a shiny new blog theme! Also, he wrote an incredible blog post about Javascript ES6, you should check it out!

Here is the list with awesome links to keep you busy during the weekend:

• Hybrid Mobile Apps: Providing A Native Experience With Web Technologies

• Writing Modular Node.js Projects for Express and Beyond

• Vagrant plugin to manage /etc/hosts entries on both the host OS and guest VMs

• Helper scripts for everyday docker use

• Reqres – A hosted REST-API ready to respond to your AJAX requests

21/10/2014 UPDATE: This post was updated ( see the new examples for arrow functions and template strings ).

Thanks for the comments and the Reddit discussion.

For years, JavaScript was considered as a toy language. It was used for creating interactive web pages and could run only in the browser. But, things changed; JavaScript is used in both, the server and the browser these days. The simplicity of the language made it so popular that developers started using it for large and complex projects.

However, new developers felt JavaScript was fancy at times. This was because of some of the known drawbacks in the language itself — and the workarounds put in place for fixing them. For example, a developer from a “C” language background is more familiar to block level scoping, but will have difficulties understanding function scoping in JavaScript. Along with lexical scoping, variable hoisting and closures might seem fancy or difficult to understand as well.