Is “Not deploying on Fridays” an outdated practice?
July 9, 2022
Is not to deploy on Fridays really that wise advice, that it used to be in the past? I would say “No”!
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Category: Software Craft
What Developer Experience Engineers can learn from User Experience Engineers
May 28, 2022
Developer experience engineering is a pretty new discipline. However, there are numerous parallels to user experience engineering. Therefore, DX engineers can learn from the teachings of UX engineering.
DRY – DO repeat yourself
April 30, 2022
DRY is one of the most misunderstood and abused principles. Copy more, reuse less!
Code ownership conflicts as a signal for structural mismatch
February 19, 2022
Code ownership on a team-level can not only help to identify the team that has knowledge in a certain area, it also can serve as a signal for a mismatch between architecture and team structures.
Code Ownership: Keeping the balance between structure and agility
February 12, 2022
Code ownership is an important topic when it comes to enabling your teams and allowing developers to improve the system while keeping the overhead of changes low. While today, most companies would (hopefully) agree, that individual code ownership is bad because it creates knowledge silos and makes the organisation dependent on individuals, code ownership still is essential on a larger scale.
Blameless Post-Mortems: Incidents are a learning opportunity
January 15, 2022
Blameless post-mortems are an effective tool to facilitate learning from failures, to share knowledge and to significantly improve the entire system, including software, infrastructure, and processes.
Why teams need slack – not the tool
January 1, 2022
Keeping people 100% busy will prevent them from innovating and improving. Therefore, teams should have slack that enables the to learn, adapt and improve.
There is no system like production: Why you should test in production
December 11, 2021
If you do not test in production, your customers are the only ones, who do. While it sounds scary at first, testing in production is an important addition to pre-production quality assurance processes.
Adopting Continuous Delivery: More a culture change than automation of processes
December 4, 2021
When moving towards a more continuous software delivery process, focus on evolving the culture instead of just automating the processes.
