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deliveroo.engineering
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deliveroo.engineering is the company blog at deliveroo.engineering, writing about programming and systems. Since 2017, 14 different Hacker News readers have linked it 22 times, most often “Shipping services more quickly with design-first OpenAPI contracts”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-22, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (7) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters mostly cite the Deliveroo engineering blog as an example of OpenAPI design-first code generation and as the source of a password-compromise notice. Several comments are job listings that link the site.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 7 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Deliveroo Tech blog
Most-linked posts?
- Shipping services more quickly with design-first OpenAPI contracts3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2022-07-18
- Improving Password Security at Deliveroo2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-09-05
What Hacker News says?
Deliveroo | Software Engineer (Backend) Junior, Mid or Senior Level | London | Visa Sponsorship | http://deliveroo.engineering Deliveroo, one of Europe's fastest growing startups, is looking for Software Engineers to join us full time in our London office. Our tech stack is Ruby-on-Rails and React, although we're happy to look at candidates with different expertise. We're revolutionising the food industry and making…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2017)”Submitted Moving from Ruby to Rust as a story · 241 points
HN discussionDeliveroo | Software Engineer (Backend) Mid or Senior Level | London | Visa Sponsorship | http://deliveroo.engineering Deliveroo, one of Europe's fastest growing startups, are looking for Software Engineers to join us full time in our London office. Our tech stack is Ruby-on-Rails and React, although we're happy to look at candidates from all over. We're revolutionising the food industry and making poor quality take…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2017)”Submitted A Golang malformed HTTP POST mystery as a story · 3 points
HN discussionDeliveroo | Software Engineer (Backend) Mid or Senior Level | London | Visa Sponsorship | http://deliveroo.engineering Deliveroo, one of Europe's fastest growing startups, are looking for Software Engineers to join us full time in our London office. Our tech stack is Ruby-on-Rails and React, although we're happy to look at candidates from all over. We're revolutionising the food industry and making poor quality take…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2017)”Submitted Deliveroo Experimentation Principles as a story · 2 points
HN discussionFrom this Deliveroo engineering blog post: https://deliveroo.engineering/2017/09/05/improving-password-... "Therefore, from today, we will be informing our customers when we determine that the password which they use for Deliveroo is publicly known in some way. We will contact the impacted customers to request that they change their password, and advise that they also change that password at other sites where it is…
Comment linking /2017/09/05/improving-password-security.html
on “Deliveroo users are getting defrauded”Submitted Real-Time Data Aggregation Using DynamoDB Streams as a story · 2 points
HN discussion> If you want a fast language that is mature and has a big community with lots of documentation and resources, I'd go with Rust. I'm sure that when Rust had their 1.0 release 6 years ago, there was little to no documentation and a small immature community at the time. We had the same people saying that it isn't mature and the same fans using it in production since pre-1.0. This is also the case with Crystal. Fast fo…
Comment linking /2019/02/14/moving-from-ruby-to-rust.html
on “Crystal Language That Aims at C Performance with Ruby Syntax Releases 1.0”Submitted Shipping services more quickly with design-first OpenAPI contracts as a story · 2 points
HN discussionWe've got a mix of a few but are recommending use of https://github.com/gorilla/mux due to it using the net/http interfaces and types, great performance and some configurability which can be handy. In particular, my team is using it in conjunction with generated code https://deliveroo.engineering/2022/06/27/openapi-design-firs...
Comment linking /2022/06/27/openapi-design-first.html
on “Ask HN: What GO web framework do you use?”Submitted Every service is an island as a story · 2 points
HN discussionCheck out the OpenAPI spec https://swagger.io/specification/ . One advantage is that you can use the spec to generate both client and server-side code, see https://deliveroo.engineering/2022/06/27/openapi-design-firs... for example. If you're looking for inspiration, there's a ton of OpenAPI links at https://apirank.dev/
Comment linking /2022/06/27/openapi-design-first.html
on “Ask HN: Good Ressources on API Architecture?”Submitted Improving Password Security at Deliveroo as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Profiling Rails Applications with Flamegraphs as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Shipping services more quickly with design-first OpenAPI contracts as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Improving Stream Data Quality with Protobuf Schema Validation as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Golang Malformed HTTP Post Mystery as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Tired of waiting for pull request reviews? Play Pull Request Roulette as a story · 1 points
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