Philip LeonardinPicnic EngineeringM1 Pro MacBooks: Building a Tech FoundationOn June 22, 2020, CEO Tim Cook announced Apple’s two-year transition plan to their own silicon in his WWDC keynote speech. This marked the…12 min read·Dec 14, 2021--3--3
Philip LeonardinPicnic EngineeringPicnic Tech RadarsOpinionated tech radars have been on the rise as of late. The Lindy effect postulates that the future life expectancy of non-perishable…4 min read·Apr 21, 2021--1--1
Philip LeonardThe Prominent Tech Team Leadership Styles of Middle Earth.So as a hobby project of mine, I’m 25k lines into writing a novel. It is based on a future dystopian society on Venus. Who would have…8 min read·Oct 25, 2020----
Philip LeonardinPicnic EngineeringMicrometer and the Modern Observability StackIn the Picnic backend landscape, our monitoring stack looks like this. New Relic is our APM provider for tracing and performance…11 min read·May 6, 2020----
Philip LeonardinPicnic EngineeringMonitoring and Observability at PicnicWhat does a typical 24 hours look like at Picnic? Customer demand is predicted, tens of thousands of trading units are ordered from…8 min read·Apr 29, 2020----
Philip LeonardinPicnic EngineeringCryptocurrency Incentivised Code Reviewing, Open Sourced.Some time ago Picnic published a blog post about our cryptocurrency powered code review leaderboard. The general goal is simple: achieve…4 min read·Jan 14, 2020--1--1
Philip LeonardinPicnic EngineeringRxJava: 5 Steps to Reactive EnlightenmentRxJava is often advertised as the answer to backend scalability issues. But is it worth the hype? Find out in 5 steps to enlightenment.11 min read·Jan 10, 2019--1--1
Philip LeonardinPicnic EngineeringCrypto incentives for code reviewsIntroduction8 min read·May 23, 2018--4--4
Philip LeonardinPicnic EngineeringReactive Programming at Picnic: Our findings thus farHere at Picnic we are concerned with creating the smoothest and most satisfying online grocery shopping experience for our customers. From…8 min read·Mar 8, 2018----