Engineering

At Dashlane, we think autonomy and innovation are key factors for success. Autonomy of teams and autonomy of people allow us to reduce waste and increase team satisfaction, for example, by not validating every decision with the top management. We also believe that autonomy is required for innovation. People & teams can only innovate if […]

A few days ago, dotJS – the largest Javascript conference in Europe announced the dates for its 2017 conference, along with dotCSS and dotGo. Photo credit: dotConferences/Flickr Dashlane engineers are a big fan of dot conferences. Last year, we attended both the dotJS and dotCSS conferences. We attended the dotJS 2016 conference and thought the venue–the […]

Last Thursday, we hosted the Paris Security Meetup in the Dashlane Office in Paris. 40 guests joined us for 2 discussions: The first was related to the investigation of a password-stealing malware. It was a very interesting step-by-step analysis of how malware programs operate. The second was around house intercoms. We discussed how new models of intercoms that […]

A few months ago, we set out to rebuild the UI of our redesigned iOS app. We wanted to give our iOS users a simpler, efficient app, with the usages and polish they would expect from their favorite service and platform. Behind the scenes, we wanted to make our app even more robust and maintainable, […]

I like to learn new stuff, all the time. I believe this is a need that also allows me to progress and be better every day. That spirit of learning continuously is one of the keys for performance, and as such in all my career I have pushed for a culture of Continuous Learning. Nowadays, […]

As we add new members to the Dashlane team, we’ve introduced two new tools, inspired from the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) framework–an Agile development framework that allows an enterprise to move towards adopting lean-agile practices. I believe that these two tools are critical to scaling your team’s agile development: 1. A Portfolio of projects: Each project we do is […]

Originally posted on my blog: SanaaSqualli.com Recently, I won a scholarship for WWDC 2016. Since being asked several times how I managed to get the scholarship, I decided to write a post to share my experience with other people that might be interested. Before I go into details I’ll start first with a short description of […]

Producing quality code is one of our main objectives at Dashlane. We’re TDD aficionados, and always keep a close eye on our unit test coverage. Every change in the codebase must result in a pull request to be reviewed by team members before it can be merged. This is why, when we got started 6 […]

At Dashlane, we want to offer the best for our users and relentlessly keep improving our product for all. To achieve this ambition, we need recruit the best talent to join our Engineering team. However, scaling an Engineering team is not a simple task. There are many risks associated with growing your Engineering team and […]

Today’s JavaScript ecosystem is changing at an incredible pace. While innovation is good, the churn rate of front-end technologies is problematic. Every new project requires decisions to be made: which languages, frameworks, and build tools will you rely on? Will you stick with the deprecated version of what you know the best or embrace the innovation at […]

Henrik Kniberg from Crisp is one of my favorite blog writer and author in the field of Agile and Organization. A lot of his work has been a huge inspiration to me. I recently shared with the Dashlane team a summary of Henrik’s slides called “Stop Starting. Start Finishing”. These offer great tips on how to […]

Hi everyone, My name is Frédéric Rivain. I am the new VP of Engineering (CTO) at Dashlane. I am taking the opportunity to write a first Tech post on the Dashlane blog. Even though we tweet regularly, we now also intend to publish technical articles about our practices and our experience. We’ll share our technical ideas, […]