Category: Code Review
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Improving Code Quality: A Developer’s Guide
Writing software involves more than just making it work. The overall code quality directly influences how easy it is to maintain, scale, and collaborate on a project. Focusing on high code quality from the start saves time, reduces frustration, and leads to more robust and reliable applications. This guide offers developers practical ways to understand,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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How Code Reviews will look in 2030
Have you ever caught yourself staring at a snippet of AI-generated code, wondering whether it’s worth a detailed review? The short answer: absolutely. Fast-forward to 2030, and code reviews will matter even more than they do today—despite (or maybe because of) AI’s growing presence in our development process. But why? Let’s find out. The Shifting…
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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…
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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…
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How to build a strong code review culture
Code review isn’t just about catching bugs. It’s not just about keeping code quality high. A good code review culture is about how a team learns together. How it grows, improves collective quality, and avoids knowledge being stuck with just a few people. If you’re leading an engineering team, you need to see this not…