Learn from some of the most accomplished engineering leaders. This blog brings you key insights from fellow engineering managers and tech leaders to level-up your management skills and to take your developer team to the next level.
Even today, there aren’t many companies with their own platform teams. Usually only the big ones have them, so there's little know-how going around in the industry. Wix.com is one such company with a great platform team and hundreds of developers. We interviewed Karen Cohen, Wix.com’s engineering manager in the platform team. She has loads of experience, and it’s not as good as gold; it’s a lot better.
Top 4+1 code review tools and linters to make sure your team writes quality, clean, and easily maintainable code reliably.
Recruiting developers is a key to success in software development right now, so we checked in with successful industry experts, looked at our own experience and put together a comprehensive guide of actionable tips on the recruitment process.
Level-up Engineering Podcast #1
Learn the best practices of running a remote developer team from one of the best in the industry: Katie Womersley VP of Engineering at Buffer. She went into details on all the challenges and being successful with remote teams, as one of the pioneers of remote development.
Code review is one extremely powerful tool in a developer team’s arsenal, yet it’s often neglected or used in a way that leads to toxic behavior, causing more harm than good. Code reviews done right can help your team share knowledge, which helps with mentoring interns and juniors tremendously, but experienced developers can always improve as well.
Technical debt is an issue for everybody in the industry. Clients often don't even know, how much money it costs, but all developers know how much effort it takes to work with it. We put together a comprehensive guide on tech debt: everything you need to know about what it is, and how to prevent and manage it.
You think you hit the jackpot with your new IT talents? Be prepared: keeping developers around and motivated will be harder than the search process was. Developer motivation is key, so here are a few tips to keep them attached (hint: high fluctuation is likely on you).
Every year, we at Coding Sans take a snapshot of the current state of software development. This year we had doubled the participants, so we have an even more precise insight on the trends for the top programming languages of 2019. Let’s look at the data, and see what trends are emerging.
In our series, we do interviews with tech leaders covering a broad set of topics from hiring, retaining developers, measuring performance, sharing knowledge and forming a great team culture.
Our intention is to provide detailed, actionable case studies on how other tech leaders manage teams so the rest of us can learn from them.
In this post we did an interview with Gregory Larson. Greg is the head of technology at Divvy, and we have compressed an insane amount of knowledge into this post.
