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Challenge accepted
Eng Outreach Committee As we have been announcing in older posts, the third edition of our programming contest Tuenti Challenge (#TuentiChallenge3) starts today. The registration period will thereby be...
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Engineering Across Platforms
Erik Schultink, CTO In the last year or so, we’ve been dealing with a big problem that many web 2.0 companies have also faced: Going mobile. I’ve benefited from reading others’ thoughts on the subject,...
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#TuentiChallenge3: First Round!
Jorge Leria, Engineer, & Rosa Gutiérrez, Senior Engineer Finally, after a very long, intense week and one extra day, the first round of the 3rd Tuenti Challenge finished up yesterday at 13:37....
View ArticleInnovative Talent: Identify. Empower. Lead.
Erik Schultink, CTO Tuenti Talent is the key to Tuenti’s success. Continuing to build and renew our talented team will be the foundation of our future. We strive to hire people smarter than ourselves,...
View ArticleMeeting the Tech Team: Javier Mellado
Eng Outreach Committee Javier Mellado, born and raised in Malaga, moved to Madrid in 2006 and is the veteran member of the Software Engineering team at Tuenti. Since joining the company in September...
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And the #TuentiChallenge3 winners are...
Jorge Lería, Engineer, & Rosa Gutiérrez, Senior Engineer The most difficult Tuenti programming challenge yet has come to an end with great results! Congratulations to all of those who were...
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Video Recordings of Browser Tests
David Santiago, Test Engineer Senior As part of the automated tests suite we run for every release candidate here at Tuenti, there are over 300 webdriver tests. They are used to verify that the site...
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TUDelorean: Because for testing, it shouldn’t matter what time it is
Daniel Rodríguez, Mobile Apps EngineerMarty: “Wait a minute. Wait a minute. Doc, uh… Are you telling me that you built a time machine… out of a DeLorean?” Doc: “Yes, the way I see it, if you’re...
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Showing our App-driven MVNO at LTE World
Erik Schultink, CTO Last week, I joined a panel and gave a brief talk atLTE World Summit in Amsterdam, describing how we combine our apps with our MVNO. Many of the operators attending LTE World loved...
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The Tuenti Release and Development Process: Once Upon a Time
Víctor García, DevOps EngineerBlog post series: part 1 The release process and development workflow at Tuenti has evolved from a slow, manual and unreliable process to a fast, fully automated and...
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The Tuenti Release and Development Process: The Development Environment and...
Víctor García, DevOps EngineerBlog post series: part 2 The Development Environment We maintain a couple of development environments: a shared one and a private self-hosted one, and we encourage...
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JavaScript Continuous Integration
Miguel Ángel García, Test FW Engineer; Juan Ramírez, Software Engineer & Alberto Gragera, Software Engineer Here at Tuenti, we believe that Continuous Integration is the way to go in order to...
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The Tuenti Release and Development Process: Development Branch Integration
Víctor García, DevOps EngineerBlog post series: part 3 In the previous blog post, we mentioned that one of the requisites a development branch must fulfill is a pull request. This is the only process...
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The Test Advisor
Rafa de la Torre & Miguel Angel García, Test FW Engineers The Test Advisor is a tool that lets you know what set of tests you should execute given a set of changes in your source code. It is...
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The Tuenti Release and Development Process: Release Time!
Víctor García, DevOps EngineerBlog post series: part 4Release Candidate Selection So, we have made sure that the integration branch is good enough and every changeset is a potential release candidate....
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First PHPMad Meetup at Tuenti
Eng Outreach Committee Last Wednesday, we hosted the first meetup of the new PHP users group, PHPMad, formerly the Symfony Madrid group, in our nice Madrid office. In addition to a short presentation...
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Fast Checkout
Jaime Forcada, Software EngineerRequirements and Motivation The team in charge of the Mobile Virtual Network Operator (hereafter MVNO) at Tuenti was asked to build a new checkout for the store. For...
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The Tuenti Release and Development Process: Deploying Configuration
Víctor García, DevOps EngineerBlog post series: part 5 Normally, website development differentiates between regular code and configuration code. Having configuration in a separated code allows you to...
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HipHop and the HHVM at the 2nd PHPMad Meetup at Tuenti
Eng Outreach Committee Yesterday, we had the people from PHPMad user group back in our Madrid offices to hold the 2nd monthly meetup. This time, the speaker was our backend engineer Daniel Pañeda, and...
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The Tuenti Release and Development Process: Conclusion and the Future
Víctor García, DevOps EngineerBlog post series: part 6 (the very last one)You can read the previous post here.Success There is nothing I can say other than the fact that all of this has been a great...
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