The Exchangeable Image File Format (EXIF) is a standard that specifies formats for images and sounds. It stores technical details through metadata, data that describes other data, such as the camera make and model and the date and time the image was taken.

BabelJS or Babel is a prevalent tool in the JavaScript ecosystem. Most developers know that it is essential when developing using brand new JavaScript features. But how does this system work?

Wizards are a common component in a lot of applications. Either for signing up new users, creating products, purchasing items and many more.

As a JavaScript developer, you surely have encountered some functions that require a lot of arguments to be called. Because the argument list is an Array-like object, all the values need to be set and so it may have given you a headache to understand the order and purpose of each argument.

The GDPR has been around for several years now, and as advocates of data privacy, we are convinced by the legitimacy of such a regulation. However, as good as this measure is from a user’s perspective, it comes with its own puzzles and challenges for an online service provider… Here we’ll try to des...

MySQL 8 was released in 2018 and is the next release after 5.7. Since 2018 and as of today there was 27 minor versions bringing the last version to 8.0.27. It’s important because MySQL did bring a lot of feature enhancements in these minor versions as we’ll see in the next part.

This is an opinion piece.

You may have heard about the five monkeys experiment, a cautionary tale sometimes used to illustrate how we can get locked up in an organisational harness without sufficient hindsight, power or leeway to change the way things are.

I joined Getaround, which was still named Drivy back then, two years ago. My previous and most extended professional experience had an internal organization that did not allow me to code full time, so many of my technical projects were actually side projects working alone.

At Getaround, like at any other company, we sometimes experience incidents that negatively affect our product.

For the last few years, we did about one hackday a year where the whole team gathered together in Paris from different areas of France.

Every year at getaround, we (The engineering team) take part in what we call a “Hack Day”.We can work on a subject of our choice for a day, in a team of developers.

All companies handle money transactions. The law enforces companies to maintain and publish records of those transactions. Those records are called books and the act of maintaining them is called bookkeeping.

JavaScript (JS) has long been criticized for being verbose and quirky. But the recent additions made to the language allow us to cope nicely with some of the debatable design decisions that were made and even benefit from a truly enjoyable development experience. In fact JS boasts a vast ecosystem, ...

In order to provide a magical experience for our carsharing customers, Getaround vehicles are equipped with Connect® hardware that communicates with the Getaround network. That magic is powered by an entire IoT backend which we recently migrated. Some might call that magical. As our platform grew qu...

Recently we had reason to investigate the performance of one of our most commonly used endpoints. We find New Relic to be a great tool for identifying and exploring performance problems, but what about when performance isn’t exactly a problem per se, but we’d like to optimize it all the same?

My job title is officially backend engineer but this is pretty vague. I wanted to explain a bit what I do on a daily basis. First, it is a good reflective exercise for myself. Then, if readers like what I do, maybe some of you will want to join us!

This article follows on from Clement’s post in which he details useful tips and tricks learnt while working at Drivy. Like Clement, I undertook Le Wagon’s intensive 9-week bootcamp. The program was great for a rapid overview of the key elements of full-stack engineering.

Recently, we did a rework of the user’s profile completion flow in our Drivy web and mobile applications. We went from a basic single screen form to a multi-steps one. The idea was to simplify the flow and ask only for the information needed depending on the user’s answers. As we had to deal with mu...

At Drivy, we have defined our very own design system. This system describes our visual guidelines and rules, and is composed of visual web components. For each component, we have created a React implementation that could easily be used by our design team to build a web site documentation (thanks to ...

At Drivy, we want to enable users to open the car even if it’s on the bottom floor of the deepest, underground parking. Since we can’t rely on a GSM connection when so deep underground, we need to use a Bluetooth connection. But communicating with a Bluetooth device is easier said than done, due to ...

External third-party-services APIs are useful: they allow you to benefit from the expertise and knowledge that others have acquired on a specific subject - a subject which is not your area of expertise and not the problem in hand. It would take too much time and effort to build and maintain such a s...

Why?

Writing tests is becoming a big part of our job. If it isn’t yet, I strongly encourage you to push your organization down that path. Why could be the topic of another article.

Security is hard. It’s often very easy to overlook things, and one small mistake can have a very big impact.

This article is aimed at beginner Rubyists who want to understand what the fuss around type checking is all about. It can also be relevant for more experienced developers who might be interested in using Sorbet and learning why it’s a bit special.

After working as a teacher and translator for several years, Emily embarked on a new phase in her career by learning a different kind of language: programming.

Rails 6.0.0.beta1 is out and you may have already tested it. We all have heard about the main features such as multi-database connectivity, Action Mailbox & Action Text merge, parallelized testing, Action Cable testing etc. But there’s also a ton of other cool features that I found interesting.

For an unknown reason, a significant number of users disable the mobile data for our iOS app. This is not a problem when they are booking a car from their couch at home with Wi-Fi, but can quickly become a major issue when they try to unlock their Drivy Open car in the street. At this specific momen...

As a junior developer who started his professional coding journey fairly recently I realized that I only used a limited number of methods and ruby capabilities. Since I got started at Drivy, I have discovered several ruby tricks that helped me make my code more readable and efficient.