A brief Q&A with newly-appointed Executive Vice President of Product Management, Kamil Rodoper     Since its humble beginning, Forto has undergone stratospheric growth. Starting with just seven employees in May 2016 and an inspired idea about building a company to disrupt the supply chain management industry, the company reached the magical 500+ employee milestone in

Have you ever run into the issue of elements looking different from page to page, or had multiple teams implementing the same design in their own ways? Have you experienced your styles breaking after updating a dependency, and you had no way to find out before the changes made it into production? Have you wasted

Last time we already provided the first essential information around sustainability and climate neutrality to generate a basic understanding of the topic. Now it’s time to dive a bit deeper and to bring the spotlight to concrete actions you can take to drive your business forward to a climate neutral operating company. Not worth mentioning,

Sustainability is based on three pillars: environmental, social, and economical prosperity Climate neutrality means that global GHGs emissions will have to be counterbalanced by carbon reduction or sequestration Offset the remaining and unavoidable emissions allow you to reach climate neutrality   Sustainable development is defined by the capacity to meet the needs of the present

Intro The merits of Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) and GitOps are well understood in the industry, but when we started our IaC journey about a year ago, we couldn’t find any great online references about how it all should come together. Specifically, we were unsure how to accomplish controlled and safe promotions of changes across environments while

The Law of General Average regulates the property settlement of a major average in shipping. The blockage of the Suez Canal blockage caused by the Ever Given has brought the principle of General Average in shipping into the limelight again. A transport insurance can prevent from any damage caused by General Average.   At latest

In the night from March 23 to 24, an unexpected incident occurred on the Suez Canal: The grounded container ship MV Ever Given, with a length of no less than 400 meters, blocked the whole waterway of the canal. There is no chance of passing through here at the moment.  Early reports mentioned technical problems

As an engineer, my goal has always been to work in an environment that allows me to focus my time and expertise where they are most needed–solving complex challenges. This is exactly what I have at Forto. Here my time is well respected, my opinions are heard, I’m part of a talented team, and I’m

Your frontend codebase is growing. It started out small, but now there are multiple teams working on different parts of it and deployments are taking a little longer every month. You weren’t able to release a feature, or worse, a bug fix, because tests for code owned by a different team started failing.  Does any

Oh no, not another tech blog! On the day we launched this blog in March 2021, the internet had more than 600 million blog posts! [According to internetlivestats.com]. That’s a very big number. Even if you discount the blogs that are not of interest (to me), irrelevant, or simply poorly written, you’d still need several lifetimes