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How to Foster Innovation in a Company?

How to Foster Innovation in a Company?

Here’s a practical framework to follow if your company lost focus on innovation and good architecture practices
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Fabio Quinzi
How to cap image fidelity to 2x and save 45% image weight on high-end mobile phones

How to cap image fidelity to 2x and save 45% image weight on high-end mobile phones

With the rise of very high density “super retina” displays in newest high-end devices such as all the iPhone 12 from the Mini to the Pro…
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Andrea Verlicchi
Running Cost Efficient EKS Clusters

Running Cost Efficient EKS Clusters

Browse one of our multi-brand online stores and it’s likely you will be served pages that were generated by one of our Kubernetes clusters…
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Bhupendra 'Bhups' Hirani
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Quicklink case study: faster pages, increased page views

Quicklink case study: faster pages, increased page views

Quicklink is a lightweight library created by Addy Osmani (Google) that prefetches pages linked to the current page, as the links to those…
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Andrea Verlicchi
The Colour of Net-A-Porter and Mr Porter

The Colour of Net-A-Porter and Mr Porter

What does Net-A-Porter look like? Is it the website? The logo? The clothes? The photoshoots? The Westfield Office? To a software engineer…
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Darren Shaw
How to optimize for CLS when having to load more content

How to optimize for CLS when having to load more content

Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS) is an important, user-centric metric for measuring visual stability because it helps quantify how often…
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Andrea Verlicchi
Mobile
Using Apple’s iTMS Transporter API to upload builds to TestFlight

Using Apple’s iTMS Transporter API to upload builds to TestFlight

Getting that app live, faster!
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Huishan
What does the future hold for traffic acquisition?

What does the future hold for traffic acquisition?

Fashion and luxury brands need to start connecting the dots
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Giuseppe Pastore
Our approach to empowering NSAttributedString

Our approach to empowering NSAttributedString

When working on an app that is released worldwide, one of the common topics is how to stylise the text based on the user language.
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Ennio Masi
Top Tips for Stylish iOS App Testing at YNAP

Top Tips for Stylish iOS App Testing at YNAP

Holding a mobile device is like having the whole word in your hands — it is a hub that gives us access to everything we need. No longer is…
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Nehir Yelkovan
Artificial Intelligence
Part III — Artificial Intelligence: Successfully Navigating from Experimentation to Business Value

Part III — Artificial Intelligence: Successfully Navigating from Experimentation to Business Value

This is the last of a three-part series on structured experimentation in Artificial Intelligence (AI).
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Fabio Cesari
Part II — Artificial Intelligence: Successfully Navigating from Experimentation to Business Value

Part II — Artificial Intelligence: Successfully Navigating from Experimentation to Business Value

This is the second of a three-part series on structured experimentation in Artificial Intelligence (AI).
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Fabio Cesari
Part I — Artificial Intelligence: Successfully Navigating from Experimentation to Business Value

Part I — Artificial Intelligence: Successfully Navigating from Experimentation to Business Value

This is the first of a three-part series on structured experimentation in Artificial Intelligence (AI).
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Fabio Cesari
How Computer Vision is making us more effective at our jobs

How Computer Vision is making us more effective at our jobs

Computers are quickly becoming more able to understand the world around them — recognising faces and shapes — and making connections…
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Fabio Cesari
AI in Fashion

AI in Fashion

Part design, part manufacturing and part social science, fashion has always had a close relationship with technology. In 2018 it’s hard to…
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Darren Shaw
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Beyond GitOps: How we release our Microservices on Kubernetes at YNAP

Beyond GitOps: How we release our Microservices on Kubernetes at YNAP

In recent posts I have talked about our adoption of Kubernetes, in this post I’m going to talk about how we release our applications into…
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Robin Glen
Cache is King (or at least very helpful)

Cache is King (or at least very helpful)

What does “Cache is King” mean? And why do I think it’s important for a company that wants to scale?
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Fabio Quinzi
Microservices: Solving a problem like routing — 2020 update

Microservices: Solving a problem like routing — 2020 update

Well, where did those last two years go? Apologies for my tardiness, time really got the better of me. The good news is, we’ve had a…
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Robin Glen
Optimizing CLS and LCP on chloe.com

Optimizing CLS and LCP on chloe.com

In this article we explain how we at YOOX NET-A-PORTER optimized the Chloé website for a couple of Core Web Vitals: Largest Contentful…
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Andrea Verlicchi
Turn cache on in HCL Commerce v9

Turn cache on in HCL Commerce v9

A caching infrastructure is a key feature for every e-commerce website.
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Marco Fabbri
Tech Interviews: The CV

Tech Interviews: The CV

At YOOX NET-A-PORTER GROUP we see a lot of CVs for technical roles and no two are the same…
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Tom Philbin
Learning to Lead

Learning to Lead

What has worked for me so far
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Martina Babini
Introducing Zeitgeist: dependency management for DevOps

Introducing Zeitgeist: dependency management for DevOps

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YNAP Tech
Using image scanning to make our environments safer

Using image scanning to make our environments safer

At YOOX NET-A-PORTER GROUP, we build and deploy thousands (literally!) of containers daily. To keep our Kubernetes environments safe, we…
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Robin Glen
How to keep the product release process tight when growing fast

How to keep the product release process tight when growing fast

How our way of working increased team continuous improvement and knowledge sharing
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Ennio Masi
Testing Service Worker

Testing Service Worker

A brief overview of our challenges and insights while developing a testing suite for our dynamic service worker application.
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Max Ast
ts-utils as Kubernetes batch job

ts-utils as Kubernetes batch job

From the operational point of view, one of the most important new features available in HCL Commerce v9 is the introduction of the Utility…
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Marco Fabbri
Oracle database connection in HCL Commerce v9

Oracle database connection in HCL Commerce v9

If you want to deploy HCL Commerce using DB2 and the out-of-the-box database connection credentials, it’s quite easy using the…
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Marco Fabbri
import {wtf } from ‘JavaScript’;

import {wtf } from ‘JavaScript’;

It’s that time of the year again, Christmas party season and I’m starting to write this years YNAP Pub Quiz. Last year I included an…
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Robin Glen
How we built a service worker for our Micro Frontends

How we built a service worker for our Micro Frontends

Over the last year we have been building and migrating Mr Porter (currently not rolled out globally, links to USA site) and The Outnet to…
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Robin Glen
Envoy, Ambassador and Istio: a gzip adventure

Envoy, Ambassador and Istio: a gzip adventure

HTTP compression is ubiquitous on the modern web as a way to trade a small amount of computing power in exchange for vastly reduced…
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YNAP Tech
Native lazy-loading and js-based fallback with vanilla-lazyload 12

Native lazy-loading and js-based fallback with vanilla-lazyload 12

On April 6th 2019, Addy Osmany wrote about native image lazy-loading. Two days later Yvain, a front-end developer from Paris, asked me if…
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Andrea Verlicchi
Exercising Creativity Through Comedy

Exercising Creativity Through Comedy

20 years ago Larry Wilde asked the famous Comedian Jerry Seinfeld “what is meant by the setup of a joke?”. Jerry answered: “The set-up…
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Guglielmo Ubba Ubaldi
Customer-Centricity in a Back End Team

Customer-Centricity in a Back End Team

What does it mean to work Back End?
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Camilla Giovannini
Enterprise Continuous Delivery of YOOX NET-A-PORTER GROUP Mobile Frameworks

Enterprise Continuous Delivery of YOOX NET-A-PORTER GROUP Mobile Frameworks

In mobile application development, solid architectural patterns play an important role in building apps faster.
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Shashikant Jagtap
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