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AI in SDLC: How Engineering Teams Are Redesigning Their Workflow
The current conversation about the future of engineering with AI usually revolves around developer productivity, typically measured by how fast…
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Articles about code review, AI, and engineering productivity
Leadership
How to reduce infrastructure costs as your company grows
At some point, every growing engineering team gets a scare: the monthly cloud provider bill comes in much higher than…
Leadership
How to Improve Collaboration Between Software Engineering Teams
A bug report comes in involving a critical user flow. The frontend team traces the issue to an unexpected API…
Leadership
How Tech Leads Use Metrics to Justify Technical Decisions
You can feel it when part of the system is wrong. The whole team feels it. Builds are slow, tests…
Leadership
How to Build Front-End Architecture for Large Teams
A front-end codebase with a few dozen developers working on it starts to show familiar signs of wear. Pull requests…
Leadership
Dealing with Production Incidents and Postmortems in Growing Teams
When the engineering team is small, dealing with production incidents usually feels simple. A few people who know the system…
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.…
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…
Code Review
Post-Mortem: Architecture Migration – January 2025
This is a transparent write-up of the issues we ran into over the last few weeks while migrating our architecture.…