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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.…
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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…
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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,…
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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,…