Kirill Zonov

Recent Posts

September 06, 2019

About customer-centricity in Infrastructure/Platform team

Dear readers, in this post, I will steer away from highly technical subjects to discuss a topic crucial for many engineers: customer centricity. This concept offers two primary benefits. Firstly, embracing a customer-centric approach ensures your work profoundly and positively impacts the product. Secondly, it often leads to receiving constructive feedback from colleagues or users, invaluable for both product enhancement and personal growth. For those who recognize the potential value of customer centricity in engineering, let's dive in!

December 05, 2018

Staging environment evolution

Today, we're going to explore the staging environment at Babbel and discuss the recent improvements we've made. Please stay tuned.

July 22, 2018

Go for Rubyists. Part 8. Concurrency in Go, Ruby and Elixir

Hey folks, hope you had a great weekend and it’s time to learn something new! Today we will observe the concurrency topic, and since it’s not such a fair comparison for Ruby, who’s forte is definitely not a concurrency, I will add Elixir to today’s article. However, still, since the series is about Go, the main focus will be on it. Don’t expect performance comparison, I believe it’s not fair to compare these languages since they all have slightly different focuses.