{"id":21435,"date":"2018-03-13T08:55:11","date_gmt":"2018-03-13T06:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.pricecheck.co.za\/?p=21435"},"modified":"2018-03-13T09:02:06","modified_gmt":"2018-03-13T07:02:06","slug":"manifesto-of-a-pricecheck-hacker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/blog\/manifesto-of-a-pricecheck-hacker\/","title":{"rendered":"MANIFESTO of a PriceCheck Hacker"},"content":{"rendered":"

As a\u00a0PriceCheck<\/span>\u00a0Hacker<\/span>
\nWe strive to learn and innovate at all costs, and if we fail and fall in the name of advancement we pick ourselves up and try again.<\/p>\n

As a\u00a0PriceCheck<\/span>\u00a0Hacker
\n<\/span>You are a professional and part of a team, not a lone script-kiddy in his mom’s basement. Also, please leave the code cleaner than you got it!<\/p>\n

As a\u00a0PriceCheck<\/span>\u00a0Hacker
\n<\/span>We use the right tool for the job , often this is the LAMP stack, and frequently we sprinkle in some GoLang to keep things interesting.<\/p>\n

As a\u00a0PriceCheck<\/span>\u00a0Hacker<\/span>
\nInnovation is key with the proviso that we do not use tech for the sake of tech, tech needs to serve a purpose first, no matter how cool or exciting it seems.<\/p>\n

As a\u00a0PriceCheck<\/span>\u00a0Hacker<\/span>
\nWe are also data cowboys. We love the struggles of wrangling large databases and corralling large XML feeds. Parallelism is our steed and Concurrency is our rope.<\/p>\n

As a\u00a0PriceCheck<\/span>\u00a0Hacker<\/span>
\nWe are agile but never to the detriment of the customers, the product, the business or ourselves.<\/p>\n

As a\u00a0PriceCheck<\/span>\u00a0Hacker<\/span>
\nThere is no need to be a Full Stack Unicorn, but everyone has a hand in the frontend, the backend, and all the hundreds of systems in between. Most importantly we have a complete understanding of our individual impact on the platform as a whole.<\/p>\n

As a\u00a0PriceCheck<\/span>\u00a0Hacker<\/span>
\nYou are part of the DevOps team, those that built it know best how to fix it.<\/p>\n

As a\u00a0PriceCheck<\/span>\u00a0Hacker<\/span>
\nWe believe in continuous delivery, changes can and do get rolled out constantly, if it breaks we fix it.<\/p>\n

As a\u00a0PriceCheck<\/span>\u00a0Hacker<\/span>
\nWe believe in levering SAAS and PAAS , cloud and containers, because when it comes to maintaining non-core systems, hardware, hosting etc, ain’t nobody got time for that.<\/p>\n

As a\u00a0PriceCheck<\/span>\u00a0Hacker<\/span>
\nI code therefor I am!<\/p>\n

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~ Penned by Conrad (our supreme captain hero of the dev team aka Head of Tech)
\n~ Lived by the entire team<\/p>\n

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As a\u00a0PriceCheck\u00a0Hacker We strive to learn and innovate at all costs, and if we fail and fall in the name of advancement we pick ourselves up and try again. As a\u00a0PriceCheck\u00a0Hacker You are a professional and part of a team, not a lone script-kiddy in his mom’s basement. Also, please leave the code cleaner than<\/p>\n

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