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BrightonSEO 2025: The Good, the Bad & the... New

27 Apr 2025

In April 2025 we had the chance to visit the BrightonSEO conference, one of the world’s largest and most respected search marketing conferences, designed to help digital marketers enhance their skills and stay updated on industry trends.

We’ve put together key takeaways from the two-day conference, focusing on eCommerce SEO, brand...

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15 Apr 2025

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The State of Progress

15 Apr 2025

Welcome to The State of Progress, a blog that hosts only pragmatic and timeless articles on developing and managing software.

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Well-structured repositories

15 Apr 2025

Anyone who has ever contributed code in a collaborative software project, had hard time doing so at some point.

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Choose SQL

15 Apr 2025

Let’s get straight to the point; choose an SQL database for your web application. I think I can’t make my self clearer.

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Case study: Inconsiderate user interface inflicts financial losses

15 Apr 2025

In May 2017 I bought a couple of tickets for a Premier League game from a very popular ticket selling website. The tickets were not delivered in time, because I didn’t include my flat number in the delivery address, so I missed the game.

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The Modest User Interface Manifesto

15 Apr 2025

Lately, I have been thinking a lot about how things can go wrong when creating a user interface.

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Polish it

15 Apr 2025

It’s been lots of years since I found any new app and enjoyed using it.

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Hype is ruining software

15 Apr 2025

Every so often, I see developers getting excited about something new that just came up. This can be anything from a new machine learning tool to a front-end framework, containers, lambdas etc.

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Welcoming ≠ Accepting

15 Apr 2025

Yesterday I witnessed impolite behavior by an contributor. The issue started when they voluntarily opened up a Pull Request that we were skeptical about accepting.

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Relinquish control

15 Apr 2025

A fundamental skill in software development is realising when you have to relinquish control and actually doing it.

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The Minimum Viable Product virtue

15 Apr 2025

I love the idea of the minimum viable product. Identifying what is absolutely necessary for launching a new viable product and building it timely with discipline within a tight timeframe is a virtue.

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Don’t surround yourself with people better than you

15 Apr 2025

There is this postmodern motivational advice that I seriously despise; “Surround yourself with people better than you”. What disgusts me more about it, is how it cultivates parasitic personalities and camouflaged egocentrism. Fuck that!

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Putting a price on decisions

15 Apr 2025

A whole lot of things happen at work these days — mostly good ones. As a result, I need to take more and more decisions day by day and the fear of can always creep in.

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The role of software

15 Apr 2025

A few weeks ago I ordered a cab through an app to get me back to my hotel from a visit at a friend's house in London. Two peculiar things happened at this moment. First, the driver pretended to pick me up and then completed the ride immediately, so they...

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LOGIC is hiring a Web Developer

15 Apr 2025

We are thrilled to announce that we are looking to hire a Web Developer at LOGIC. LOGIC is the company through which and are pursuing exciting projects.

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Too many upgrades is a downgrade

15 Apr 2025

Getting distracted by the very same tools you use to do your job in your every day work is really new to our species. Our brain has been developed for hundreds of years with non-intrusive tools. The pen and paper on an architects office, would never pop up a notification...

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A few thoughts on focus

15 Apr 2025

For the last few years I take considerable vacation every August — 2 weeks minimum. It helps me relax, rejuvenate and think.

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No one cares that "An error occurred"

15 Apr 2025

A couple of months ago I ran into an issue with a car I rented, that quite much resembled a regular situation in software.

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LAUNCH: Vaulty

15 Apr 2025

This is a special day. We are extremely excited today to launch Vaulty, along with its first subscription offering “Vaulty Personal”. Vaulty is the easiest way to receive end-to-end encrypted sensitive information.

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LOGIC is hiring a Junior Web Developer

15 Apr 2025

nior Web Developer at LOGIC, the new company through which and are pursuing exciting projects.

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Django Prose: Wonderful rich text content editing for Django

15 Apr 2025

We are super excited today to announce ; an open source project we have been working on for a while in LOGIC. Django Prose makes it extremely easy to work with rich-text content in Django, our web framework of choice. Let’s take a deeper look into this.

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It only works if you know why

15 Apr 2025

“It does not work, and I do not know why! Now it works and I still do not know why!”

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What is the trade-off?

15 Apr 2025

Last month, we held our fourth company meet-up, where most of our small team got together and worked in person from our office for a whole week.

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Faraday cages for focus

15 Apr 2025

I have already talked about the . To improve my focus, being quite of a systematic person, I try to recognise the indicators of the quality of my focus and the conditions, under which it flourishes or struggles.

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A few thoughts on extroversion

15 Apr 2025

There is one thing I deeply love about the United States and always enjoy while being there. It is the extroversion of people. They talk about what they do in work and life in general, they celebrate it and also want to hear accordingly from you as well. It’s truly...

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Less assumptions, more resilience

15 Apr 2025

My sister and I have been working on a family software project for a while now. In this context, we employ a tool developed by one of our clients at , while also actively contributing to it. As my sister attempted to use it last Friday, suddenly a .

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Give users their data

15 Apr 2025

I had two incidents last week that, from opposite directions, pointed out to me the importance of being able to export my data from the applications I am using.

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Consultant lock‑in

15 Apr 2025

Two weeks ago we talked about vendor lock‑in at the Docker Athens meetup. What about consultant lock-in as you move to bare metal?

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Getting the basics right

15 Apr 2025

Teams often spend a disproportionate amount of time trying to make their work shiny and impressive, rather than get the basics right and just make it work great for its purpose.

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Supermarket software houses

15 Apr 2025

Supermarket software houses claim to provide all sorts of solutions. They never say no, in exchange for a low bar. LOGIC is not one.

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Ergani Python SDK: Streamline your Ergani API integrations

15 Apr 2025

We are super excited to announce ergani. A Python SDK that alleviates headaches from trying to integrate with the Ergani API.

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LOGIC is hiring a Marketing Intern

15 Apr 2025

We are excited to announce that we are looking to hire an intern to kick off our marketing operations at LOGIC.

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Customers should feel exclusiveness

15 Apr 2025

Customers should feel like they are the only ones you have to deal with when they need your company.

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Working in a T‑shaped team

15 Apr 2025

At LOGIC everyone has a field of expertise, along with sufficient understanding of the whole stack

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Stick to the non-negotiables

15 Apr 2025

There is no "soft deadline" — there either is a deadline or not. Everything else is noise.

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Put your signature on your work

15 Apr 2025

There is something deeply human and intimate about putting your signature on your work implying a direct moral responsibility for its results.

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The excitement in difficult discussions

15 Apr 2025

Expanding on that statement, companies rarely talk about building resilience by overcoming failures in business.

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LAUNCH: Pulses

15 Apr 2025

Pulses is the GitHub App that helps your team get aligned by replacing recurring meetings, like daily stand-ups, with scheduled GitHub discussions.

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The two kinds of slow

15 Apr 2025

There are two kinds of slow: unintentional, where things spiral out of control, and intentional, where slowness is a trade-off for a better outcome.

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A few thoughts on clarity

15 Apr 2025

Talking a lot is easy. Speaking concisely is harder. Communicating with clarity, is on another level of difficulty. Why though?

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Positioning complexity

15 Apr 2025

Simplifying a system means completely removing a part of it. Most of the time though, we do not do that. We decide how to position complexity.

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Greatness through rejection

15 Apr 2025

Our code reviews are direct, non-personal and honest. Any work not meeting our standards is not shipped. This is necessary to achieve greatness.

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How Skroutz handles Real-Time Schema Evolution in Amazon Redshift with Debezium

21 Jan 2025

The Challenge

At Skroutz, we are passionate about our product, and it is always our top priority. We are constantly working to improve and evolve it, supported by a large and talented team of software engineers. Our product’s continuous innovation and evolution lead to frequent updates, often necessitating changes and additions to the...

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Breakpoints in Production HTTP Requests

09 Jan 2025

At Skroutz, debugging issues in production as soon as possible is crucial to minimizing downtime and ensuring a smooth experience for our users.
Traditionally, investigating incidents or bugs in HTTP requests involved reproducing the issue in the development environment by adding breakpoints (e.g binding.pry).

However, this method can be...

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MVI in Skroutz android app

17 Dec 2024

Our codebase is over 10 years old. Like every other project that started at that period, it adopted Model View Presenter as its architecture. Over the years, both the app and the team grew. This created a need to shift to an architecture resembling ‘clean architecture’. At that point, MVP became...

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One Screen to Rule Them All

15 Nov 2024

What’s the excitement about one screen being the ultimate solution? Presenting the new Listing Screen, an update to the legacy version that now supports sections, ready to transform how we manage listings in our app. The Home Screen of the Android Skroutz app already uses sections, setting the stage for a dynamic user experience....

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Growing the documentation of our android project using Dokka

29 Feb 2024

In the last few years the android team has grown significantly and with that so did our codebase. We are at a state that the lack of documentation has become an issue but not for what you might think. Documenting a class as to how it works is not as essential as...

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 Innovation and Culture program – “Proof of Concept” (“PoC”)

19 Feb 2024

Innovation and Culture program – “Proof of Concept” (“PoC”) As partner of the Smart Attica European Digital Innovation Hub (EDIH), the Athens Center of Entrepreneurship and Innovation of the Athens University of Economics and Business is organizing the Innovation and Culture program – “Proof of...

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Επίσκεψη του Ευρωπαικού προγράμματος ASTRA στο ACEin

15 Dec 2022

Επίσκεψη του Ευρωπαικού προγράμματος ASTRA στο ACEin Recent Posts Categories Blog Team Blog Το Ευρωπαϊκό Πρόγραμμα ASTRA ( Advancing Strategic Management, Leadership and Fundraising in Higher Education in Asia) πραγματοποίησε επίσημη επίσκεψη στο κέντρο επιχεριματικότητας και καινοτομίας του Οικονομικού Πανεπιστημίου Αθηνών στις 15 και 16...

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