by Murat Knecht | Jul 1, 2018 | Engineering
Mosh, short for “mobile shell”, is a “remote terminal application”. It allows you to access any server on the command-line that you have SSH access to. In contrast to SSH though, mosh is optimized for flaky internet: The connections keeps working even if your WiFi...
by Murat Knecht | Jun 24, 2018 | Engineering, Open
We recently noticed a pattern: Members from the engageSPARK tech team meet all over Asia, in a semi ad-hoc fashion. What does that have to do with an ice cream truck? I’ll explain that, and why it’s a good thing, and how we’re making a habit out of...
by Murat Knecht | May 29, 2018 | Open
Ready for the three famous(ly boring) Daily Standup questions? Here they come: What did I do? What will I do? Any obstacles? Two parts information, one part helping, this cocktail is all about what we’re working on. Our Daily Scrum questions help us to sync up...
by Murat Knecht | Mar 29, 2018 | Engineering
Technical interviews and coding challenges often focus on skills: how fast can you implement a reverse proxy in Golang? Here’s a piece of paper, can you sketch a webapp in Express? Skills are necessary, but only half of the game. And since I believe that...
by Murat Knecht | Feb 19, 2018 | Engineering
tl;dr If you run Freeswitch in Docker and need to forward a RTP port range, you’ll run into problems. You can try using the iptable solution explained here. (Exactly the kind of manual setup mess that container deployment is there to solve.) How do you forward a...
