Leadership
Feature Flags and gradual rollouts: releasing software safely at scale
Shipping a large change to a production system with a big user base creates a very familiar kind of stress.…
Author: Edvaldo Freitas
Leadership
How to keep engineering and product teams aligned
As a company grows, the way engineering and product teams work together begins to wear down. What used to be…
Leadership
Optimizing CI/CD as the development team grows
The first sign of trouble is usually the build queue. A few developers join the team, commit frequency goes up,…
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,…
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…