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2026 2

  1. Athens SEO: Navigating the Uncharted Seas of GEO
  2. Do You Really Need Ads When You Rank #1? How Skroutz Built a Tech Framework to Detect Ads Cannibalization

2025 3

  1. BrightonSEO 2025: The Good, the Bad & the... New
  2. How Skroutz handles Real-Time Schema Evolution in Amazon Redshift with Debezium
  3. Breakpoints in Production HTTP Requests

2024 3

  1. MVI in Skroutz android app
  2. One Screen to Rule Them All
  3. Growing the documentation of our android project using Dokka

2022 3

  1. The Importance of Having a Healthy Chapter
  2. Handling inertial scroll in combination with scroll snapping
  3. Core Web Vitals Real-time Monitoring at Skroutz.gr

2021 7

  1. Skroutz contributes to Hotwire's upstream
  2. Monolith Diaries: Upgrading Rails
  3. Hotwire @ Skroutz: Lazy load data with minimum effort
  4. SEO at Skroutz.gr: Our Top 5 Principles & Values
  5. Refactoring a React app to progressively load its data
  6. How we classify products at Skroutz
  7. Uncovering a 24-year-old bug in the Linux Kernel

2020 4

  1. Speed: The Journey to Delivering a Faster Experience at Skroutz.gr
  2. Process Optimization
  3. Hiring engineers while working from home May 31, 2020
  4. Performance Management @ Skroutz February 13, 2020

2019 8

  1. [Case Study] How we optimized our Crawl Budget October 30, 2019
  2. Agile Summit Athens 2019 October 03, 2019
  3. Entropy changes in Debian or 'why a VM boots in 5 minutes?' September 09, 2019
  4. Searching at Skroutz: from Kafka to Elasticsearch August 26, 2019
  5. Speeding Up Our Build Pipelines August 23, 2019
  6. Experience Fighters #EXF19 August 01, 2019
  7. Eliminate Content Repaints May 05, 2019
  8. Mo, the forking stranger at Skroutz April 08, 2019

2018 1

  1. Introducing Kafka to a Rails application April 16, 2018

2017 5

  1. Smashing Conference Barcelona 2017 November 09, 2017
  2. Frontend United Conference Athens 2017 June 05, 2017
  3. Rewriting our web analytics tracking infrastructure in Go May 15, 2017
  4. How we migrated our Javascript stack to Webpack April 25, 2017
  5. Upgrading Puppet 3.x to Puppet 4.x March 24, 2017

2016 7

  1. Smashing Conference Barcelona 2016 November 25, 2016
  2. EuRuKo 2016 October 25, 2016
  3. Skroutz Analytics August 31, 2016
  4. Our take on Fuzzy Auto-Completion June 28, 2016
  5. Skroutz Redesign: how we designed and implemented our own Design System May 10, 2016
  6. Optimizing Continuous Integration at Skroutz March 18, 2016
  7. 2015: An amazing Front-end year at Skroutz January 06, 2016

2015 5

  1. On Prototyping October 26, 2015
  2. Skroutz infrastructure at a glance April 21, 2015
  3. CSS at Skroutz March 08, 2015
  4. The Skroutz Feed Validator February 01, 2015
  5. Working with the ELK Stack at Skroutz January 01, 2015

2013 3

  1. Digitized 2013 - It Was... Double Rainbow Awesome! September 21, 2013
  2. CSSDAY 2013 - Amsterdam June 20, 2013
  3. EuRuKo2013 - design February 01, 2013

2012 4

  1. Baruco 2012 September 17, 2012
  2. Removing wildcard routes June 08, 2012
  3. How we manage to manage May 28, 2012
  4. Implicit design patterns May 25, 2012

2011 2

  1. Kowalski, progress report! October 11, 2011
  2. Skroutz architecture in bullet points February 12, 2011

2010 9

  1. Crafting newsletters on Rails June 14, 2010
  2. Skroutz + Warden June 11, 2010
  3. Building a headless web site screenshot server June 09, 2010
  4. Implementing spell checking at Skroutz May 04, 2010
  5. Queue Helpers for Resque April 09, 2010
  6. BlackholeStore: a /dev/null rails cache store March 02, 2010
  7. MySQL slave monitoring wihth Munin March 02, 2010
  8. Acts_as_tree_on_steroids plugin February 02, 2010
  9. Static Files With Nginx + Passenger February 02, 2010

Undated 1

  1. Skroutz Blog