Mews R&D MiniPodcast with Richard Valtr | Mews Developers
Bite-sized conversations with the people behind our tech – short interviews, fresh insights, and more guests from across Mews R&D.| Mews Developers
Bite-sized conversations with the people behind our tech – short interviews, fresh insights, and more guests from across Mews R&D.| Mews Developers
I’ll be honest, with so many AI tools, editors, and chatbots launching every day, it can quickly get overwhelming. Sometimes, I just feel like sticking with Copilot and Claude and calling it a day.| Mews Developers
Bite-sized conversations with the people behind our tech – short interviews, fresh insights, and more guests from across Mews R&D.| Mews Developers
At the time, the term “T-shaped” was starting to become more common in product and engineering conversations. The idea? Someone with deep expertise in one area (say frontend), but with broad working knowledge across many (such as backend, product thinking, security, threat modeling, performance, deployment, etc.). In practice? It meant stepping into ambiguity, learning fast, and finding your own path through it.| Mews Developers
In a groundbreaking initiative, Mews partnered with our customer Hey Lou HOTELS to host our very first joint hackathon.| Mews Developers
Bite-sized conversations with the people behind our tech – short interviews, fresh insights, and more guests from across Mews R&D.| Mews Developers
We’re transforming the world of hospitality, re-imagining the industry with a best-in-class cloud-based property management solution for hotels and more. Have you applied yet?| Mews Developers
At the time, the term “T-shaped” was starting to become more common in product and engineering conversations. The idea? Someone with deep expertise in one area (say frontend), but with broad working knowledge across many (such as backend, product thinking, security, threat modeling, performance, deployment, etc.). In practice? It meant stepping into ambiguity, learning fast, and finding your own path through it.| Mews Developers
Welcome to the Mews R&D mini podcast series! Bite-sized conversations with the people behind our tech – short interviews, fresh insights, and more guests from across Mews R&D. Stay tuned for stories, ideas, and a peek behind the curtain of how we build. In this episode, our R&D Community Lead, Jan Meissner, talks with Adi […]| Mews Developers
Welcome to the Mews R&D mini podcast series! Bite-sized conversations with the people behind our tech – short interviews, fresh insights, and more guests from across Mews R&D. Stay tuned for stories, ideas, and a peek behind the curtain of how we build. In this episode, our R&D Community Lead, Jan Meissner, chats with Sylvia […]| Mews Developers
Bite-sized conversations with the people behind our technology.| Mews Developers
In software development, delivering a high-quality product is a continuous challenge. Despite thorough testing processes, automated checks, and strict acceptance criteria, bugs still find their way into releases.| Mews Developers
Struggling to measure design system adoption? Discover how we built a clear, data-driven metric that really works — with practical tips and code snippets you can use too!| Mews Developers
In this episode, R&D Community Lead Jan Meissner sits down with our CEO, Matt Welle, for a behind-the-scenes look at how Mews evolved from whiteboard wireframes to a leading hospitality platform used by thousands. From launching a PMS with zero lines of code to learning what it really takes to set up a product team, […]| Mews Developers
Welcome to the Mews R&D mini podcast series! Bite-sized conversations with the people behind our tech – short interviews, fresh insights, and more guests from across Mews R&D. Stay tuned for stories, ideas, and a peek behind the curtain of how we build. In this new episode, our R&D Community Lead, Jan Meissner, chats with […]| Mews Developers
Welcome to the Mews R&D mini podcast series! Bite-sized conversations with the people behind our tech – short interviews, fresh insights, and more guests from across Mews R&D. Stay tuned for stories, ideas, and a peek behind the curtain of how we build. In this first episode, our R&D Community Lead, Jan Meissner, chats with […]| Mews Developers
A series of in-depth conversations with the leaders and minds behind our technology.| Mews Developers
Incident responders are key to keeping software systems secure and functional. However, the nature of this work can be extremely stressful and demanding, so it’s essential to manage your mental health while handling the challenges of incident response.| Mews Developers
A Kafka outage caused thousands of our Temporal workflows to get stuck before doing any meaningful work. We shipped a fix to decouple core logic from Kafka by running steps in parallel—using the patching API and replay tests to keep things safe. We also learned a few hard lessons about versioning, workflow longevity, and staying focused on what really matters.| Mews Developers
In this episode, Jan chats with our VPs of Engineering—Ryan, who leads the Platform team, and Conor, who leads the Product team—about their journey to Mews and how they collaborate. Ryan and Conor have been with Mews for about two years. They both came from large corporations but have experience with small startups. They are […]| Mews Developers
In this episode, Jan talks to Vita, Director of Engineering, about his career at Mews. Vita started as a Backend engineer in 2015 and grew into the role of director of the Connectivity tribe, a team that oversees the public API, which is used by 1000+ partners to enhance Mews’s functionality. 00:00 Intro00:50 How is […]| Mews Developers
A few months ago, we as a company celebrated an important anniversary: it’s been one year since we transitioned from Google workspace (G Suite) to Office 365 (O365). It was a challenging year…| Mews Developers
A fictional developer's journey through the ups and downs of code ownership — from first commits to 3 AM alerts, and the unexpected joy of digital parenthood.| Mews Developers
Phishing ads are rising on search platforms. Here’s how they’re evolving—and how to fight back.| Mews Developers
Building a new product comes with a series of decisions—and choosing the right tools is one of the most important.| Mews Developers
Evolve your leadership by leveraging your strengths and developing your authentic style.| Mews Developers
Míša’s IT journey shows that with curiosity, persistence, and effort, a career change is truly possible.| Mews Developers
What if product documentation wasn’t about keeping users engaged, but rather about helping them disengage?| Mews Developers
Hosting a lasagna night goes wrong when you forget the garlic, leading to frantic substitutions and a fine, but not great meal. Building software is similar. Jira’s Epics and Initiatives ensure all essential “ingredients” are planned, preventing a half-baked project outcome.| Mews Developers
Not all hackers wear hoodies—discover who they are, what drives them, and how to stay protected.| Mews Developers
This series is designed to provide you with practical advice for your first steps as a manager.| Mews Developers
Modern systems constantly communicate, but identity isn’t always certain. Can we prevent secret leaks? Explore how managed identities help.| Mews Developers
A guest claimed wrongful charges for a canceled reservation—but the truth was far more surprising. Read on to uncover the unexpected twists ...| Mews Developers
Uncover how mastering active listening transforms tech teams, fostering deeper collaboration, innovation, and more productive interactions.| Mews Developers
Uncover how mastering active listening transforms tech teams, fostering deeper collaboration, innovation, and more productive interactions.| Mews Developers
Discover how scaling GuestPortal from a monolithic backend to microservices unlocks greater scalability, domain independence, and operational efficiency.| Mews Developers
Learn how documenting architectural decisions with ADRs helps software teams maintain clarity, reduce confusion, and avoid repeating mistakes.| Mews Developers
This series is designed to provide you with practical advice for your first steps as a manager.| Mews Developers
Explore the potential of Observability & Monitoring beyond their traditional role in application development.| Mews Developers
Just as Spotify brings you a Wrapped up of your favorite songs and artists for the year, we present our annual wrap-up of your favorite R&D community, where you may have met us and what blog posts we’ve published. In last year’s recap, we made a “resolution” outlining what you could expect from us in […]| Mews Developers
An Architecture Overview (AO) document is an ever-evolving document serving as a high-level guide to the key elements, structure, and reasoning behind a system’s architecture. Its primary goal is to provide stakeholders — including developers, product managers, and non-technical team members — with a clear understanding of the system’s architectural design and the rationale behind […]| Mews Developers
At Mews, most of our Web UI is built with React, styled-components, and love. While shipping these UIs, we’ve built a robust component library and application architecture that can be adapted to scale well as Mews continues to grow. Scaling a large application like the frontend of our PMS shares a lot of similarities with […]| Mews Developers
Change is always challenging, regardless of its nature. Even positive changes like a new job, promotion, or moving to a new house can be difficult. This is especially true when the change is imposed rather than chosen, as in the case of an acquisition. As an engineering manager, I recently experienced my first unexpected acquisition, […]| Mews Developers
As developers, we often see documentation as an afterthought, a tedious task that pulls us away from “real” work — writing code. It can feel like an unnecessary burden, especially when we’re working in Agile environments, where we favor working software over comprehensive documentation. But what if I told you that lean documentation (just enough […]| Mews Developers
In recent years, Mews has experienced rapid growth, which has led to complications in managing our software development. As development is now divided among multiple teams, enabling these teams to work independently to avoid bottlenecks has become crucial. We have taken several steps to support this independence. The first was modularization, which allowed us to […]| Mews Developers
As a product manager, sometimes it feels like our stakeholders see the world fundamentally differently than we do. This divergence of perspective can lead to friction, mismatched expectations, and, in extreme cases, behaviours that can appear mutually sabotaging. In truth, stakeholders often do have a different worldview, and for good reason. Recognising this can be […]| Mews Developers
As a Staff Mobile Engineer at Mews, I’ve come to realize the title “Staff Engineer” is quite vague, with responsibilities varying from company to company and even between departments. In my role, I don’t belong to any specific team; instead, I assist other engineers and teams with code reviews, architectural decisions, and ad-hoc issues. I […]| Mews Developers
Last year, I shared my thoughts on the importance of Developer Experience (DX) in software development and how it directly affects productivity. Building on that discussion, we started working on a new platform called Mews Atlas—designed to help teams ship code faster while keeping everything secure and compliant. To kick things off, we introduced automated […]| Mews Developers
It’s been some time since we began thinking about using the durable execution framework called Temporal. Why? The reason is fairly simple: it helps us implement actual business cases while allowing us to worry less about how we reliably execute the code. But as with everything in life, nothing is black and white — rather, […]| Mews Developers
Apple’s recent announcement of so-called ‘Apple Intelligence’ at WWDC raised more than a few eyebrows. Some of this may relate to the extent of the privacy Apple has been able to offer, while much will be directed at the deep integration with OpenAI. Regardless, there is an open debate about how safe such an integration […]| Mews Developers
The Mews way of migrating from Monolith to Microservices, reimagining the entire application from the product POV.| Mews Developers
Software development is a fast-evolving field where keeping up with the latest frameworks, languages, and tools can feel like chasing a moving target. Staying current is not just about acquiring technical skills but also about personal and professional growth. Engineering requires choosing the right tools for each situation, and expanding your toolbox involves continuous learning. […]| Mews Developers
In the world of tech startups, building meaningful relationships inside and outside the company is essential. In this blog post, we’ll explore the joys and challenges of managing the community at Mews, including how we bring people together, boost collaboration, and grow our community in exciting ways. Our internal and external communities Our R&D community […]| Mews Developers
Introduction Imagine you’re at a hotel, enjoying a delicious breakfast. When it’s time to pay, you realize you forgot to bring your wallet, so you decide it would be easiest to charge the meal to your room. The waiter politely asks for your name to find you in the system, but due to a language […]| Mews Developers
The Mews way of migrating from Monolith to Microservices, reimagining the entire application from the product POV.| Mews Developers
The Mews way of migrating from Monolith to Microservices, reimagining the entire application from the product POV.| Mews Developers
Chapter 4 This is the fourth and final chapter in my blog post series about being a developer on the spectrum. In this chapter I am exploring what employers and employees are doing and what they can be doing with employees that are on the spectrum. What can employers do? To create an inclusive and […]| Mews Developers
Chapter 3 This is the third chapter in my life as a developer on the spectrum. In this chapter I am exploring how I thrive as a developer with ASD my nightmares and my coping mechanisms. How do I thrive as a developer with ASD? One of the key things about working with ASD is […]| Mews Developers
The Mews way of migrating from Monolith to Microservices, reimagining the entire application from the product POV.| Mews Developers
Chapter two This is the second chapter in my life as a developer on the spectrum. In this chapter, I am exploring where I fit into the spectrum after accepting that I am a person on the spectrum. Where do I fit into the spectrum as a person? From an early age, I thrived in […]| Mews Developers
Chapter one Intro As I am starting this post, my anxiety skyrockets. But it is something I need to do. I will be exploring my experiences as a developer on the spectrum – the beginning, the journey, and now working as a staff engineer at Mews. What I am trying to deliver is a story […]| Mews Developers
Three backend engineers and three frontend engineers walk into a cross-exposure... It's not a beginning of a joke, it's what we did and here is our story.| Mews Developers
A story about how we at the Mews approached 2022 (and previous) event booths' planning, designing, and building. Including tips from our team.| Mews Developers
A story about how we at the Mews approached 2022 (and previous) event booths' planning, designing, and building. Including tips from our team.| Mews Developers
Introduction In the constantly evolving world of software development, embracing new methodologies and technologies is not just a choice; it’s a necessity. At Mews, we are growing and going on a journey that marks a significant shift in our approach to software development – transitioning to our first set of microservices. Strategic decisions, technological advancements, […]| Mews Developers
Authors: David Le, José Miguel Sánchez Martínez, Honza Moudrik Introduction One of the benefits we enjoy at Mews is a strong learning culture, which includes a company-covered trip to a conference. So, we seized the opportunity to attend the Global Software Architecture Summit in the heart of sun-drenched Barcelona. What are our takeaways? What should […]| Mews Developers
“But I have nothing to share. I don’t have experience, and nobody is interested in me.” Are you a junior in IT or switching careers to tech? Does the sentence above (or its parts) sound familiar? It’s perfectly normal, but also, it’s WRONG! They are interested in you; they just don’t know about you. A […]| Mews Developers
Introduction Building the best cloud-native PMS isn’t easy, and the analytics surrounding it are no different. It has always been challenging to address product-related questions from our product managers, designers, and sometimes even developers, but that’s where dbt comes to the rescue. The modern data stack has revolutionized how data analysts work within an organization, […]| Mews Developers
This is the text version of my presentation at Flutter Czechia Meetup, where we delved into how Dart Code Metrics elevates your development game, making your coding process more efficient. Let’s start with a simple question: "Why do we need an analyzer at all?" One significant benefit is its ability to help us enforce code […]| Mews Developers
Introduction With success and fast-paced growth, there comes a point when companies serve vastly different customers. As your product gains more market share and accumulates more data, the need for personalized segmentation becomes obvious. However, navigating the complex process, from selecting the right modeling methods to addressing data quality issues, can be daunting. We have […]| Mews Developers
Introduction I am a backend developer with 20 years of development experience, starting when .net 1.0 was released. But throughout the years, I have been working full stack one way or another. Back then, there was no difference between backend, frontend, or QA engineers. You were just a developer. You were expected to know and […]| Mews Developers
Introduction As developers, we love to use the latest and greatest technology available. At the same time, we need to make sure everything will work smoothly for our users. In the frontend world, there’s a huge difference between the code we write and what eventually gets to our users. Let’s have a look at the […]| Mews Developers
Introduction Why is the tech and hospitality industry discussing the importance of the guest journey and user disengagement today? What it means and why are just a few of the things I will explore in this article. Then, I will take you on my journey in today’s hospitality world and look at some of the […]| Mews Developers
Introduction Based on my talk at Design Systems London earlier this year, this post explores the valuable insights I have gained on how to make design systems more accessible (and why we should make this happen). At Mews we want to build the most accessible possible products and in an effort on doing so we […]| Mews Developers
Introduction As I sit here, reminiscing about the whirlwind of experiences from the past week, a smile inadvertently finds its way onto my face. For the first time since the Covid-19 pandemic, I attended a live, in-person event. The NDC Oslo 2023 wasn’t just a conference – it felt like a homecoming, a reunion of […]| Mews Developers
Introduction The advent of remote work in the technology sector, combined with the effects of COVID, has revolutionized the way we work and opened doors to a better quality of life for individuals living with chronic diseases such as psoriasis. In addition, the flexibility of remote work allows people to spend time in warmer climates […]| Mews Developers
Discover how Docker enhances Developer Experience (DX) in developing distributed systems and why it has become a popular choice among developers.| Mews Developers
AI has recently reached public cover, and In this blog post, I will explore how AI learns, deals with lacking information, and fills in the gaps("lie")| Mews Developers
Why pro athletes are considered good employees? A story about what sport and tech have in common.| Mews Developers
As a chef with over a decade of experience in the hospitality industry, I found myself wondering: "What can you possibly bring to the table?"| Mews Developers
What if I tell you that communication between QA Engineers & developers can be nice and easy? Discover 3 solutions that can make it possible.| Mews Developers
This article is based on a meetup talk I gave in January 2023.| Mews Developers
A story about how we at the Mews approached 2022 (and previous) event booths' planning, designing, and building. Including tips from our team.| Mews Developers
This is the overview of our tech team's contributions to the community last year. It's also a testament to all the colleagues who were part of it. Thank you!| Mews Developers
Describing synchronous communication between microservices using gRPC, discussing highlights and challenges, and showing a simple example written in .NET 6.| Mews Developers
Data and information attack us from every angle. Let me guide you through my journey of learning how to work with it and eventually finding a system that works.| Mews Developers
Web Summit is Europe’s biggest tech conference, bringing over 70,000 attendees to Lisbon each year. This is the story of four data analysts traveling to Portugal this November and discovering what all the buzz is about. We’re going to share our tips for nailing the conference, what we liked (and didn’t like), and what we […]| Mews Developers
We at Mews really like RFCs. What started more as an experiment has now become widely adopted. In the first two years, we wrote 50 RFCs(!), making it slightly more than two per month on average. This year (2022), we already see 34 of them – and there’s still a long way to go to […]| Mews Developers
Four stories about what it is a buddy system at Mews. You'll find the responsibilities, benefits, and tips we've put together over the last couple of years.| Mews Developers
Let’s take a look at how mutual trust, empathy, and openness will help you develop the right relationships within your team, shorten and strengthen the feedback cycle, and eventually bring your organization to a new level.| Mews Developers
There are certain things you can and should expect either as a working mom of an infant or just being surrounded by one (or more). Uncensored.| Mews Developers
Avoid the bugs with TypeScript and read about the pros and cons of type systems as well as migration strategies. Researched, experienced, and shared.| Mews Developers
Recently, we asked ourselves a question. How to showcase a piece of our product while talking to the visitors at our career booth?| Mews Developers
Finding the right talent relies on the efficiency of your interview process. Let's reveal 6 ways to lead fruitful discussions with your candidates!| Mews Developers
Yes. I’ve created and shipped a game made purely in Dart and Flutter in about two months, carrying it out as a late-night coding project.| Mews Developers
Lukas, another developer, hailing from Matfyz. Why does he enjoy what he does at Mews? What is his most expensive MTG card? And what's Angel's Share?| Mews Developers
Are you an individual contributor considering a career change? Do you think of management as the next step in your career? Not sure if it’s right for you? Don’t know where to start? Then read on, this article is just what you’re looking for! I’ve been in a similar situation, so let me share […]| Mews Developers
Learn how Entity Framework might be hurting your database performance and what to do about it.| Mews Developers
QA is not just about manual testing and finding bugs. Read Nuno's story of what are the steps you can take when building your career in QA.| Mews Developers
