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Last year we decided to replace our Ubuntu servers with NixOS. We were still on Ubuntu 14.04, so we also had to upgrade all the services and tools, including PHP, MySQL, HAProxy, etc. As you can imagine, this was a lot of work, and you might be asking yourself, “why didn’t you just upgrade Ubuntu?” […]

Concurrency in Go is an extensive topic, and we won’t cover all the things in this post. There are tons of articles and several books that cover concurrency in depth. The goal of this post is to cover topics between basic and advance. We’ll cover the usage of sync.WaitGroup and channels. Those two things combined […]

Let’s get the clickbaiting out of the way first: we’re not technically building a house, we’re renovating an existing villa. To make it more suitable for remote teams. The rest is true, though. It’s on a unique subtropical island in the Atlantic Ocean! OK, but why on Earth would a software company build a vacation […]

After a year and a half, Niteo finally organized our bi-annual In-Real-Life meetup. The third time is the charm! Unfortunately, we only managed to do it for half of the team. People in and around Slovenia, all vaccinated, met up in Ljubljana in a great space rented from the Computer museum. The other half of […]

Earlier this year, on one of our half-yearly IRL’s, we had a discussion about whether or not we should proceed with a massive upgrade…

After our first virtual IRL in July-2020, it’s time for our first remote-first IRL. Which means Niteans were given options to plan and decide a location where they could meet other nearby Niteans and connect with the rest virtually. So, the plan was to divide and organise Mini-IRLs – one in Lanzarote and one in […]

This post will briefly discuss H12 errors on Heroku, more commonly known as request timeouts, how we tackled them, and how we fixed them. Before we start, let’s establish some context. We have an app that’s a hub for ~600 servers. A few times per day, each server creates a request to the app, ensuring […]

Last year, we wrote a blog post on how we use Heroku’s Review Apps to create staging apps for every Pull Request submitted to a project’s repository. These apps are created and deployed automatically, completely isolated from the production environment, and contain the changes from the Pull Request. This allows every stakeholder to see how […]

As a remote-first company, Niteo invests in doing bi-annual IRLs (In Real Life) meetups to get everyone in the same time and space. Spending time with Niteans face-to-face is invaluable. The bonds we create during IRLs are strong — but our meaningful connections do not come from the onsites alone. We consciously work to develop […]

I’ve been a Python dev for almost 15 years now and I’ve recently completely overhauled how I keep my development tools and dependencies in check. I’m so happy with my new setup that I couldn’t wait to share it with fellow geeks! Some background I used to use Homebrew to install tools such as pyenv […]