Bynder Tech Blog
How we build Bynder
The decisions, detours and rewrites behind the platform you build on — told by the engineers who made them. Real trade-offs, honestly documented.
Engineering & architecture
How the platform gets designed, modernised and kept honest — from REST API semantics to retiring legacy frontends. Newest first.
Understanding and improving accessibility
August Aldred · Sep 9, 2024
A worked accessibility example from Content Workflow. Read on Medium ↗
Diving into data modeling with a Software Engineer mindset
Marc Soler Colomer · Jun 17, 2024
Applying engineering principles to data modeling decisions. Read on Medium ↗
Capturing Intent in a REST API
Roald Bankras · Feb 21, 2024
How Bynder designs API resources that express why a change is happening, not just what changed. Read on Medium ↗
Strangling Legacy Code: Bynder's Frontend Modernisation Journey
Bogdan Moisa · Dec 19, 2023
Incrementally replacing a legacy frontend with the strangler-fig pattern. Read on Medium ↗
Enabling Innovation: The Importance of Software Architecture
Orsi Luckacs · May 15, 2023
Why deliberate architecture is what makes fast product iteration possible. Read on Medium ↗
How we learned to trust our developers with infrastructure changes
Miguel Alexandre · Jul 14, 2022
Handing infrastructure ownership to product teams, safely. Read the article ↗
Ways of working
Good software is a team sport. These are the leadership, autonomy and inclusion lessons our engineers learned the hard way. Newest first.
"Turn the ship around!" — The military tale of how giving up control leads to success
Mona Yamile · Mar 18, 2024
Leadership lessons on handing control to the people closest to the work. Read on Medium ↗
Ditch the fraud police: embrace your inner impostor
Ana P. Soares · Apr 6, 2023
On impostor syndrome, and reframing self-doubt as a sign of growth. Read on Medium ↗
Beauty and the beast — A tale of ADHD in Agile teams
Mona Yamile · Mar 8, 2023
What Agile ways of working look like through the lens of ADHD. Read on Medium ↗
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