Christos Trochalakis

Tech & opensource addict, xCTO @SkroutzDevs, Debian Developer.

[Skroutz Engineering @SkroutzDevs]

The importance of having a healthy chapter by @lpartsas #android

https://t.co/u02iC4TP2d

[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

Unpopular opinion: aiming for zero downtime migrations should be the norm, not the exception at most places.

Yes, there's always a cost to do a zero-downtime migration. BUT this cost is less, the more you do this approach. It also makes for much better engineering cultures!

[Skroutz SEO @SkroutzSEO]

Core Web Vitals: A real-time monitoring & alerting system leading to an impressive 98,5% of ~26 million pages seen as providing a “good page experience”! 📈

Find out more: https://t.co/GwrK8KzQj9

#seo #techseo #ecommerce #performance #corewebvitals

[Christos Trochalakis @ctrochalakis]

@GergelyOrosz I also enjoyed reading @jacobian's estimation series https://t.co/rViFtB9rnq

[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

"How can I build a better relationship with my product manager, as an engineering manager or engineer?"

Here are a few approaches. What else have you found works well?

[Alex MacCaw @maccaw]

Do you feel lost?

Try creating. Could be code, companies, art, people.

Creation brings meaning because it's what we were made to do.

[Skroutz Engineering @SkroutzDevs]

Our @kapantzak wrote a very nice piece on "Refactoring a React app to progressively load its data"

https://t.co/ze50lKiIdB

#performance #javascript #React

[Skroutz Engineering @SkroutzDevs]

Yesterday was the last day of #RailsConf2021.
During these days we watched many interesting talks, learned new things and got excited for what's coming next.
Both #ruby and #rails are here, alive and thriving.
@railsconf Congratulations and thank you for the wonderful conference.

[Skroutz Engineering @SkroutzDevs]

#RailsConf2021 is starting today! 9 Skroutzers are super thrilled to attend its really interesting talks! Go #Rails 🚀

[Patrick Collison @patrickc]

An obvious point that took me way too long to appreciate: in software engineering, you should probably optimize for speed even when you don't have to, because it's one of the easiest/best ways to prioritize subtraction and parsimony in the solution space. https://t.co/kYulYoV3uN.

[Christos Trochalakis @ctrochalakis]

Ι am always impressed by the sophistication of the tools we build to deal with real-word problems, our product classifier is one of these cases. @SkroutzDevs https://t.co/XFobwc6vUt

[Christos Trochalakis @ctrochalakis]

Wanna build something new? Your first focus should be to create a fast feedback loop. Usually by writing a small script, or a test. It's basic, but we usually underestimate its value.

[Nate Berkopec @nateberkopec]

Part of the job of being an engineer is managing complexity. Applying the latest and greatest or whatever BigCo tells you is the “best practice” is an abdication of your responsibility to use the simplest tools that accomplish the job.

[Mpampis Kostas @charkost]

As it turned out, 82% our N+1 query cases @SkroutzDevs could be auto-detected before hitting production using a modified version of the awesome bullet gem! https://t.co/1QbBJINzrv

[Skroutz Engineering @SkroutzDevs]

Uncovering a 24-year-old bug in the Linux Kernel https://t.co/9WLyoFKEgZ via @apoikos

[Skroutz Engineering @SkroutzDevs]

[GR] Το πλάνο μας είναι να αλλάξουμε τον τρόπο που αγοράζουμε στην Ελλάδα και ψάχνουμε μηχανικούς με όρεξη για μια σειρά από θέσεις! 🧐

Θέλεις να συμμετέχεις σε αυτήν την προσπάθεια; Περιμένουμε την αίτησή σου👇

https://t.co/NvkgvItDnL

[Skroutz Engineering @SkroutzDevs]

We are looking for motivated Android and iOS mobile developers to join our growing team at Skroutz and revolutionize the experience of buying online! https://t.co/ReKXkQLc1R https://t.co/Nl3pJOWXAK

[Apollon Oikonomopoulos @apoikos]

We're looking for Senior SREs in Greece to join our Core Infrastructure team: https://t.co/VZ1PWLPDL7

[Skroutz Engineering @SkroutzDevs]

For over a year we were working on Skroutz's rendering speed. Here is what we learned.

https://t.co/eDvj3rItgD

#frontend #ux #performance

[Patrick Walton @pcwalton]

For me becoming a senior engineer has meant learning not to be afraid to write hilariously dumb and slow code. Half of the time it won’t matter and the other half of the time I can just go back and optimize it later.