Leadership
How to manage technical debt in a fast growing environment
When you are scaling fast, the pressure to ship new features is constant. At first, it feels like everything is…
Author: Edvaldo Freitas
Code Review
Balancing delivery speed and code quality in scaling startups
In a fast-growing startup, the default mode is to ship as fast as possible. A new feature needs to go…
Leadership
Monorepo vs. multiple repositories: what’s the best strategy for a growing codebase?
The repository structure that works for a two-person startup almost never works for a fifty-person engineering team. What starts as…
Leadership
Technical debt vs. new features: how to set priorities
Every planning meeting seems to end up in the same place. Engineering brings up a legacy service that’s getting slower…
Code Review
How to scale code review in a growing team
A pull request opens, and the review requests go out to the same two or three senior engineers. A day…
Leadership
Avoiding knowledge silos in growing engineering teams
When an engineering team grows from five to fifteen, the informal communication channels that once worked perfectly start to break…
Leadership
When to break up a monolith: a guide to adopting microservices
The conversation about moving from a monolith to microservices usually starts when things get painful. Builds take forever, a small…
Changelog
1.0.88 – Context of MCPs in Rules and Prompts plus OAuth Connection, PR preview, and improvements to license control.
News & Improvements Enable the use of MCP in custom rules and prompts You can now use MCPs directly inside…
Productivity
Cursor vs Windsurf: which AI IDE actually improves your team’s productivity?
The adoption of AI-powered IDEs has accelerated fast. The problem now is not a lack of options, but understanding what…