Leadership
Monorepo governance: module best practices and code ownership
At the beginning, the idea of a monorepo is quite appealing. Having all the code in one place, centralized dependencies,…
Author: Edvaldo Freitas
Leadership
Ensuring Software Quality at Scale: Automated Testing and QA in Large Teams
When a team is small, keeping software quality under control feels intuitive. You can review every pull request, you know…
Leadership
Implementing Domain-Driven Design in a Growing Company
At a certain stage of growth, the codebase stops making intuitive sense. Logic that used to be simple becomes spread…
DevEx
When should you invest in Developer Experience?
At a certain point in a company’s growth, you start to notice some strange things happening. Adding more engineers doesn’t…
Code Review
How to Identify (and Fix) Bottlenecks in Your Code Review Process
As an engineering team grows, the code review process is often one of the first things to show signs of…
Leadership
Software estimation and scope: predicting delivery timelines in a scale-up
The product roadmap says six weeks. Deep down, you know it’s ten. Maybe twelve, if that dependency doesn’t land in…
Engineering Analytics
Key metrics to measure technical debt (and how to use them in practice)
Software development is a complex field that demands constant decision-making to balance innovation, speed, and quality. The concept of technical…
Leadership
Dealing with legacy code in modern applications
A new feature request lands, and you realize it has to touch the old permissions module. The project planning meeting…
Leadership
How to structure technical planning for engineering
In a fast-growing company, the default state of engineering is reactive. The product roadmap is packed, deadlines are tight, and…