Any dish worth its salt needs the finest ingredients. In the case of the new Feast cooking app, we needed a structured recipe archive. This is how we rustled it upYou may have heard the Guardian has a new cooking app called Feast. With thousands of searchable recipes, cook mode, and lots of other lo...

Welcome to our ‘Day in the Life’ blog series where we interview a colleague from the product and engineering department to reflect on their career and experiences at the GuardianHow did you begin your product management journey?After university, I wasn’t entirely sure what career path to pursue. So ...

Dealing with content that keeps changing can lead to bugs on users’ devices that are hard to reproduce. By precisely describing the shape of the content using types and ensuring it matches, exceptions can be avoided and users shown helpful messages when errors occur. This post will illustrate how th...

Recently, colleagues across the product and engineering department, as well as other parts of the organisation, came together for another exciting hack dayFor our first hack day of 2024 we kicked off with a grand theme around all the major events of the world, including sport and upcoming elections ...

The latest version of the whistleblowing platform SecureDrop runs on the Qubes operating system. At the Guardian we used the Salt management engine to set up a Qubes environment where journalists could safely interrogate sensitive documents.This post was updated on 9th April 2024 following feedback ...

Pinboard is a discussion and asset sharing tool (or rather tool within other tools) which is gradually transforming how the news room communicate as news stories move through the various phases of the production processThis is part three of three (part one and part two). Continue reading...

Pinboard is a discussion and asset sharing tool (or rather tool within other tools) which is gradually transforming how the news room communicate as news stories move through the various phases of the production processThis is part two of three (part one and part three). Continue reading...

Pinboard is a discussion and asset sharing tool (or rather tool within other tools) which is gradually transforming how the news room communicate as news stories move through the various phases of the production processThis is part one of three (part two and part three).Who works on a story?How many...

A developer in the Fellowship Scheme shares his experiences of his first year at the GuardianI clearly remember my early days in the Guardian’s Digital Fellowship as a mixture of excitement and being totally overwhelmed. I had joined the editorial tools team, which builds all our digital tools for o...

Developers in the Product and Engineering department came together with colleagues from across the Guardian to explore the potential of LLMs and moreThe discussion of large language models (LLMs) and generative artificial intelligence was everywhere in 2023 – not least in the Guardian’s Product and ...

How we improved Typerighter, the Guardian’s style guide checker, to provide more value for the Guardian and its readersMinimising typos is important to a newspaper. Publishing messy prose might undermine trust in our overall quality control – why trust our political reporting if we can’t spell Thérè...

Today’s blog does not come to you from any developer in product and engineering but from our talented colleagues in data and insightHere, the Guardian’s data scientists share how they have teamed up with PhD students from University College London to train a machine learning model to accurately attr...

Coming back from a long holiday? Recently joined the department? Collaborating on a complex, cross-team problem that spans different tech stacks and programming languages? At one point, we’re all going to find ourselves in one of these situations. So how can we ensure that no one feels overwhelmed o...

Since you’re here… please find somewhere comfortable to sit and read my story about the journey the Supporter Revenue team has undergone since I joined them as an Engineering Manager back in January 2016Our readers’ support is vital to the Guardian’s future, and the Supporter Revenue engineering tea...

On our team we swapped databases 6 times in a year. We’ve landed on Aurora Serverless V2 – was it worth it?Since our migration from Mongo to Postgres in 2018, at the Guardian the search for the perfect database hasn’t stopped. In the last year on the Investigations and Reporting team we’ve spent a l...

Welcome to our ‘Day in the Life’ blog series where we interview a colleague from the product and engineering department to reflect on their career and experiences at the GuardianDid you always have an interest in software development from a young age?I definitely had an interest in computers but I d...

All the news and updates from the 2023 Guardian Product and Engineering away dayThe second session of the unconference time has come to a close. There will now be some time for feedback on the topics. Who will step up to share their thoughts?It’s nearly time on session two. I’m hearing there will be...

How the Guardian’s real time analytics tool pivoted from ElasticSearch Rollups to BigQuery and what we learnt along the wayOphan is the Guardian’s in-house developed real time analytics tool which allows us to see how our content is performing in real-time, providing our Editorial teams with the ins...

This month, colleagues across the product and engineering department, as well as other parts of the organisation, came together for another exciting hack dayFor our first hack day of 2023 we kicked off with a delicious theme around ‘Food’, with a side of the usual ‘free-for-all’ of course. Hackers w...

‘Who does what and where?’ is an age-old question. We in Product & Engineering have tried to answer it with Galaxies, a data visualisation of interconnected people, teams, and streamsWe all feel a little lost at times. Who am I? What is my purpose? Who’s the best person to speak to about setting up ...