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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,…
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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…
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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…