Out with the old, in with the new
When we incorprated Swat.engineering early 2017, we quickly registered the domain swat.engineering and put there some temporary information. Little did we know that “temporary” would mean 3 years.
We needed all our time to run a start up.
A few month ago a colleague in an EU project said: “Hey, Swat.engineering must be doing pretty well, since your website is never updated”. Indeed, we are doing very well as a company working on exciting projects with a range of clients.
So time for a new website. With an increasing team and increasing ambitions we want to clearly communicate our technical expertise and what kind of services we can deliver to our clients.
We asked Kitty Molenaar to create a good looking web site that conveys the professional values we stand for. We think she did a great job. The technical realization of Kitty’s design was done by Bas Vredeling from Code Culture. All content was produced by the Swat.engineering team.
We hope that this website will help you to identify how we can help you to control your software. Or just ask us how we can help you.
We love to hear from you at [email protected].
Recent posts
Writing typecheckers is hard because a myriad of constraints must be checked. That leads to entangled and difficult-to-maintain typechecker code. TypePal is a new approach to improve upon this situation. We use it in many projects at Swat.engineering, including the typechecker of the open-source Bird DSL.
Typechecking is necessary and cost-effective Typechecking is omnipresent but not always very visible. It ranges from a friendly notice from your IDE that a certain import in your program is unused to a harsh error that a function is called in the wrong way.
This is the second episode on replacing binary data with a textual representation. In the previous episode, we described the benefits of storing data in the form of a domain-specific language (DSL). Here, we will describe a convenient first step in this replacement process: the substitution of a legacy key/value database library with a drop-in replacement that stores the data in a textual format with one record per line. Besides being an ideal stepping stone for further migration, it also provides some basic version control functionality.