Author: Edvaldo Freitas

  • What is technical debt and how to deal with it?

    What is technical debt and how to deal with it?

    Also known as technical debt, it’s a concept in software development that represents the hidden cost of choosing a quick fix or short-term solution to meet immediate needs, rather than investing in a higher quality approach. Why does this happen? To speed up the release of a product. In this guide, we’ll walk you through…

  • Java Code Review: Checklist and Best Practices

    Java Code Review: Checklist and Best Practices

    Code review is one of those things everyone agrees is important but few teams actually enjoy doing. It’s time-consuming, sometimes awkward, and often feels like a chore. But when done right? It’s one of the highest-leverage practices you can have in a Java team. This guide is for teams who want to get serious about…

  • Best AI Code Review Tools of 2025

    Best AI Code Review Tools of 2025

    AI code review tools are changing the way we write and review code. Fast. What used to take hours now takes minutes — sometimes seconds. Code review has always been a key part of the dev process, but also one of the slowest. Now it’s finally being reimagined with AI. If you work with code…

  • AI Code Reviews vs. Traditional Code Reviews

    AI Code Reviews vs. Traditional Code Reviews

    AI code reviews are starting to transform one of the most important processes in software development. You’ve probably spent countless hours making sure your team’s code quality is top-notch. And still, code reviews, one of the slowest and most crucial processes, haven’t changed much over the years. You submit a pull request (PR), wait for…

  • How to Identify (and Fix) Bottlenecks in Your Review Process

    How to Identify (and Fix) Bottlenecks in Your Review Process

    If you lead an engineering team, you’ve probably seen this before: stuck PRs, delayed deploys because no one reviewed the code, and a growing pile of changes waiting for approval. Code review, which should help ensure quality, often becomes a bottleneck—and worse, sometimes no one even notices until it’s too late. This article is an…

  • 7 reasons to consider AI code review in your workflow

    7 reasons to consider AI code review in your workflow

    Code review has become a bottleneck. PRs piling up, feedback taking too long, standards being broken without anyone noticing. The bigger the team, the harder it is to keep things consistent and fast without burning out the reviewers. That’s why more and more teams are putting AI at the center of the process. Not to…

  • What’s the real impact of AI in Software Development

    What’s the real impact of AI in Software Development

    AI in software development is becoming the new normal for engineering teams. It’s built into IDEs, pops up in pull requests, reviews code, and even writes tests. But between all the hype and the real world, there’s still one question bothering a lot of people: what’s actually changing in the day-to-day of someone who writes…

  • Feedback in Pull Requests: What High-Performing Teams Do Differently

    Feedback in Pull Requests: What High-Performing Teams Do Differently

    Everyone talks about how important the code review process is for quality. But few people go deep into what really matters — how to give great feedback in a pull request. And more than that: how to receive that feedback without freezing, taking it personally, or turning every PR into an endless debate. If you…

  • Software Metrics: A Guide for Engineering Leaders

    Software Metrics: A Guide for Engineering Leaders

    If you lead an engineering team, you already know: picking the right metrics can be the difference between well-informed decisions and shots in the dark. In this article, we go straight to the point: which software metrics actually help leaders guide their teams with clarity and focus. No magic formulas. Not every software metrics deserves…