When COVID hit the world it seemed it would quickly revolutionise office work. However, now in the economic downturn, even the leading tech companies are pushing hard to get their people back to the office. I believe in many cases the reason why managers are so keen on going back…

Over the years I have been involved in hiring for both the teams I have led and for other teams in the organisation. Despite having done tons of hiring interviews, I do not consider myself a great interviewer. Often I find myself less than 100% sure when deciding whether to…

This is the second part of the series. Check out the first part if you haven’t already. How to split the application into Blocs? Despite awesome documentation on the Bloc official site we still had several questions once we dived deeper: Should we follow UI composition when creating Blocs or should we instead create Blocs following functional…

This is the article I wish I could have read when starting our team’s journey with Flutter at Yummy. To spare the suspense, switching to Bloc has been a significant success for us. We assess that thanks to Bloc, our implementation speed has increased by 40 — 60%. Bloc has…

When not to use late To put it very simply, late is not good in cases where it can accidentally blow up with LateInitializationError at runtime. The first time I used late in Flutter app was when I tried to avoid null checks for accessing remotely loaded data from a ViewModel. I wrote something like…

Wanted to share my experience using Kotlin as the language for our backend at Clean Kitchen. Based on the last 6 months I’m very happy we made that choice over Java and I recommend any Java team to give it a try. Some context I have been working with Java for the…

About four months ago we decided to use Trello as our task management tool for our team at Clean Kitchen. It has been really awesome experience using it so far. In the past I have used different kinds of issue tracking solutions. I still believe that for a co-located team…

One of the main ideas of Domain Driven Design is building a shared domain language called ubiquitous language. Typically you do it by listening to the domain experts and capturing the language they use. Domain expert is seen as some well seasoned veteran who has years of experience working in…

Nowadays microservices are so popular that it is inevitable they are used in places where they should not. Microservices is a pattern that has 2 main drivers: optimising for team size and system load. However, often they are used out of fear of monolith. Idea is that the only way…