The Release Train Has Crashed Into the Station
Painting with a brush that’s admittedly pretty broad, we could divide software development process at a larger scale into two buckets: Centrally planned and highly interwoven. Loosely coupled and relatively...
The Recovering Micromanager’s Guide to Letting Your Developers Work
It’s Friday at 4 PM. You wish this status meeting was over, yet it drones on. It’s impossible to stay focused, knowing that in four hours, you and your family are boarding a plane to Mexico for a...
Getting Started With SonarQube and SonarLint
Over the years, software has grown in size and complexity. As the number of lines in our code grows, the quality of the code being written usually suffers. Code is often copied and pasted across modules, or you...
9 Things Dev Managers Need to Do Yesterday to Stay Competitive
In our rapidly changing industry, managers need to keep informed of the trends to make sure their team has tools to succeed. But if you’re focused on your day-to-day operations, you don’t have the time...
Deploy to Production: 5 Tips to Make It Smoother
Who hasn’t had issues when deploying a software change to production? No one. I once accidentally deleted a bin folder from a .NET application in one of four servers when deploying a change. The site was...
A Guide to Getting Started Quickly With JavaScript Feature Flags
Most software concepts have multiple levels, like an onion (or an ogre). Feature flags are no different. You slap a conditional in your code to decide if it gets executed or not. Done and done. However, you can go...
The Pitfalls of Feature Branching
Working with feature branching reminds me of building a house. You don’t see general contractors insisting on making copies of their own houses when remodeling. Working in the house at the same time forces...
The Top 5 Use Cases for Feature Flags
The concept of feature flags is really simple: it’s a conditional block of code that you strategically put somewhere to enable or disable features of your app easily. But knowing the top use cases for feature...
A Guide to Getting Started Quickly With NodeJS Feature Flags
We’ve all done it at some point: thrown a conditional around a piece of code to enable or disable it. When it comes to feature flags, this is about as simple as it gets. But it’s far from really taking...
Feature Flags as a Service: The Only Way You Want Feature Flags
One of the great debates in the software world is that of build vs. buy. Anyone with a background in software development will tell you that the temptation to reinvent wheels is strong. Sure, any language’s...
If You’re Not Experimenting in Production, You’re Falling Behind
From a young age, we have a certain appreciation for presentation. Specifically, we like the idea of quietly putting something together, working on it, polishing it, and then unveiling it. Ta-da! It starts with...