Skroutz Engineering
engineering.skroutz.gr · Company blog · on HN since 2015
Skroutz's engineering team, from the Greek price comparison site, writes about infrastructure, Rails, Go, SEO, and a Linux kernel bug.
What HN saysHN commenters link its kernel bug write-up on modulo arithmetic and describe Skroutz as a solid company with bare metal infrastructure and a strong engineering culture.
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Most-shared posts
- 1Uncovering a 24-year-old bug in the Linux Kernel5 people · 996 points · first shared 2021 · 77 comments on HN
- 2The infrastructure behind one of the most popular sites in Greece3 people · 11 points · first shared 2015 · 5 comments on HN
- 3[SEO Case Study] How we optimized Crawl Budget by removing 72% of indexed URLs2 people · 8 points · first shared 2019 · 1 comments on HN
- 4Streamlining the Rails upgrade process on a large monolith2 people · 6 points · first shared 2021 · discussion on HN
- 5Working with the ELK stack1 people · 87 points · first shared 2015 · 35 comments on HN
- 6Speeding Up Our Build Pipelines1 people · 59 points · first shared 2019 · 24 comments on HN
- 7How we migrated our JavaScript stack to Webpack1 people · 18 points · first shared 2017 · discussion on HN
- 8Rewriting a web analytics tracking infrastructure in Go1 people · 11 points · first shared 2017 · discussion on HN
- 9Entropy changes in Debian or 'why a VM boots in 5 minutes?'1 people · 8 points · first shared 2019 · discussion on HN
- 10Introducing Kafka to a Rails application1 people · 6 points · first shared 2018 · discussion on HN
- 11Implementing a fuzzy suggestion mechanism at Skroutz1 people · 5 points · first shared 2016 · discussion on HN
- 12Searching at Skroutz: From Kafka to Elasticsearch1 people · 5 points · first shared 2019 · discussion on HN
- 13Fast Rails Debugging with Breakpoints in Production HTTP Requests1 people · 4 points · first shared 2025 · discussion on HN
- 14CSS at Skroutz1 people · 3 points · first shared 2015 · discussion on HN
- 15How We Classify Products at Skroutz1 people · 2 points · first shared 2021 · discussion on HN
What HN people wrote when they linked it
Teongot · 2022-10-18
> Isn't it surprising that modulo arithmetic, as already employed successfully in TCP sequence numbers and the like, still seems to be incorrectly implemented today
Even in TCP sequence numbers, it can be implemented incorrectly.
https://engineering.skroutz.gr/blog/uncovering-a-24-year-old-bug-in-th…
atmosx · 2021-02-25
Skroutz[1], a Greek price comparison website, uses a bare metal infrastructure[2] and has a strong engineering culture[3]. Skroutz is a success story in Greece and looks pretty solid.
[1]: https://www.skroutz.gr/
[2]: https://engineering.skroutz.gr/blog/skroutz-infrastructure-2015/
[3]: https://engineering.skroutz.gr/blog/uncovering-a-24-year-old-bug-in-th…