ENGINEERING BLOG

Product Management that loves Customer Delivery

This is a story about experimentation and decision making, about software development, about Scrum and Kanban. It’s the long-term roadmap and urgent needs. It’s combining predictable tasks and unexpected events. It’s also team optimisation and cross-team satisfaction.(...)

Moving to a mono-repo: Part 2, The Destination

The adventure continues, diving deeper into Empathy.co’s experience moving to a mono-repo to go open source with Interface X [https://docs.empathy.co/develop-empathy-platform/build-search-ui/]. If you haven’t read Part 1 [https://engineering.empathy.co/moving-to-a-mono-repo-1/] of this blog series, start there for the challenges we faced.

Integrating Personio, GitHub & Google Workspace

Managing and protecting employee data in a company is critical. Automating user management (processes of adding, removing, and updating users for employees) helps this run even smoother. Human resources teams manage a company’s employees, but normally they lack knowledge about how to improve this user management process. This is

Cloud FinOps - Part 2: Tag Allocation Strategy

In the first post [https://engineering.empathy.co/cloud-finops-part-1-principles/] of this four-part series, we explored the Cloud FinOps principles and the key milestones in the journey to start walking in FinOps: * Tag Allocation Strategy * Cost Report * Usage Report In this post, we’ll dig deeper into a crucial step in

Moving to a mono-repo: Part 1, The Journey

Often the journey can teach you a lot about your destination. For many years, Empathy.co has been working on web frontend projects. Along the way, we’ve created lots of libraries to solve different kinds of problems. However, while we are happy to be able to reuse code between

Cloud FinOps, Part 1: Principles

FinOps, short for Cloud Financial Operations, helps teams optimise cloud costs to get the most value for their projects. Teams adopt best practices and a collaborative culture to manage cloud operations with greater financial accountability: balancing cost, speed and quality. When your teams have problems managing their cloud costs, following

Success story: From AWS EMR to Kubernetes

Motivation This article is an overview of the path we followed to migrate Spark Workloads to Kubernetes and to avoid EMR dependency. EMR was an important support tool at Empathy.co [https://empathy.co/] to orchestrate Spark workloads, but once the workloads became more complex, the use of EMR also