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For those folllowing along, I'd been working mostly on operations tech in Shoffr for the last few months.

Originally published on the Shoffr blog.

I am addicted to playing chess on chess.com.

We are excited to announce the launch of our Android app on the Google Play Store.

Why?

If you have booked a few rides with Shoffr and come back for the next, you might notice that the "Use Toll" checkbox on the checkout pop-up is already set to your favourite setting.

The "trip" aka booking, or ride, or duty (as our Shoffrs call it) is the fundamental construct at Shoffr.

Early architecture is a critical part of an early-stage, tech-enabled company.

The last 7 days have been absolutely insane at Shoffr Tech.

Last week we shipped an upcoming rides widget on the Shoffr website.

Yesterday we launched the "Book return" functionality on Shoffr which will make it easy for our guests to book both onward and return trips in one go.

SOLID principles are powerful tools for building a system with low coupling between its components.

I have written before on this blog about what distributed systems are and how they can give us tremendous scalability at the cost of having to deal with a more complicated system design.

In software engineering, scalability is the idea that a system should be able to handle an increase in workload by employing more computing resources without significant changes to its design .

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