Naukri.com android mobile app for jobseekers enables users to get notifications anytime anywhere using Google Cloud Messaging or GCM service. In this post we will walk you through the details of GCM. GCM.. What is it? Google Cloud Messaging (GCM 3.0) is a free service that helps developers send messages across multiple platforms: Android, iOS, and Chrome. A server can send messages directly to single devices, groups of devices, or devices subscribed to particular topics. Using this service you can send data to your application whenever new data is available instead of making... Read More

We use Google Analytics to measure events like button clicks and generation of notifications etc... in our apps. With the help of this data we get to know how people are using our product, which enables us to identify areas of improvement and maximize the success of product in market.  Post publishing a version of the android app, we saw a spike in both the number of active users and sessions (in Google Analytics). However, at the same time we witnessed a decrease in the screen views/session. On investigating further, we found that since we are logging (in Google Analytics) some events... Read More

Mobile Debugging Become Easy Mobile devices are now the computing platform of choice for many business, user and consumers. In Naukri most of the applications are on mobile, frequent updates are required on them. During debugging we were facing many problems which were also very time consuming. Debugging Javascript on a mobile device can be maddening. I usually had no idea what went wrong, and I often got frustrated with a blank white screen and no clues. I could learn to use the debug tools available on each platform, but that would become onerous quickly. I was aware of... Read More

In summers of 2014 we planned to start naukri.com revamp. It was a great chance for us to redesign and rethink our strategies. One of the pain point was to manage CSS effectively and after few brainstorming session we thought of bringing in CSS preprocessor . Now after 6 months it looks like without SASS, CSS could have gone haywire. Plain CSS had some issues: No concept of variables. Reusing a collection of rules is cumbersome. Missing support to include or extend block of css. Managing css into separate modules is not feasible CSS @import rule prevents... Read More

Not a nightmare anymore .. What is Cron ? Cron is a time-based job scheduler in Unix-like computer operating systems. People who set up and maintain software environments use cron to schedule jobs (commands or shell scripts) to run periodically at fixed times, dates, or intervals. With increasing servers, applications, crons (schedule jobs) it was becoming pain to manage and monitor all crons. We thus built NCConfig – a tool to monitor all crons which includes their status - Success/Failure, executing time, output, etc Few major problems which we used to face before building... Read More

Data – the heart of any website. MySQL – most websites (including ours) are powered by it. With increasing transactions, servers and database sizes, it was becoming a pain to manage and monitor all of it. We thus built MyTrend – an ingenious tool to monitor data growth trend and server space utilization simple enough to be customized easily. This is what it does :  * Monitor Everything - Everything inside your MySQL can be monitored (Database Size, Connections, Slow Queries etc)  * Analyze MySQL data collected over a period of time  * Capacity Planning - Plan the growth... Read More