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.
It’s a huge challenge keeping and growing an engineering team. You need to take care of hiring, figure out how to retain developers as long as possible in the team and also figure out the work process and making sure the new developer managers are ready to take responsibility for their teams. In pursuit of uncovering good practices, we started a blog post series, featuring cool tech companies. Our intention wasn’t to find the ultimate silver bullet for every kind of organizational problems but to provide small case studies you can learn from. This case study is about a fast growing medium-sized tech company called Alpha.
What makes a high-performing developer team different from a low-performing one?
In this post, we extracted actionable insights from the State of Software Development 2018 report to reveal some cool stats about high-performing teams.
You will see how top teams attract, hire and retain talents and by what standards they measure performance. In some cases, the difference between high- and low-performing teams is also highlighted.
One of the main benefits of using serverless is automation due to it’s event-driven and pricing models. In this post, we will walk through how to use AWS Lambda to cleanup unused EBS volumes to reduce the infrastructure’s monthly bill.
Figuring out how to test complex, distributed systems causes a lot of headaches. And the thing is, there is no one-size-fits-all answer. Distributed systems serve a specific need, so its architecture is built in a way to serve that business need. Chances are, the testing methods vary as well, and I haven’t even mentioned the number of independent services that also influences the testing methodology.
Since it’s impossible to come up with a universal answer for testing distributed systems, we did interviews with 6 cool tech leaders to reveal their methods of testing.
In this post, they will talk about how their systems work and the methods they use to test them.
A microservice architecture is an interesting beast, as there is no real prescriptive definition of what makes one that is universal in nature. In my view a software architecture is much more akin to a form of software philosophy than any engineering discipline. In this post, David reveals his process for switching to microservices.
There is huge competition for talented developers. As a developer or tech lead, you have probably experienced this by receiving countless offers through LinkedIn or personal recommendations. Hiring new developers is hard. There aren’t enough developers on the market, and you’re competing for talent with big tech companies such as Facebook and Google who have much bigger resources.
State of Software Development 2018 report
Software development evolves super-fast. A tool or framework used today might be obsolete tomorrow. Our intention is to take a snapshot of the industry, track how it evolved in the past and make an educated guess as to where it’s heading. This year’s report will give you the data you need to benchmark your activities against other survey participants, get some insights to further improve your developer team and keep up with the rapidly changing industry.
Building serverless apps or setting up a serverless architecture has been a pretty hot topic in recent years. But seeing if this is the right fit for your application is not that clear. In this post, we compressed every information you need to know about serverless applications, collecting the pros and cons to make your architectural decision much easier.
There are many different things that could slow down your team and eventually lead to missed deadlines and expectations.
It happens quite often.
But this shouldn't happen.
In this post, we will uncover the main things that can slow down your team and provide some hands-on tips to address these issues.
Our intention is to help you structure the problem and uncover different internal and external factors that could impact your team’s productivity.
It’s really challenging to stay productive individually in today’s environment, and the same applies to team productivity. How do you help your team get more things done while team productivity is constantly challenged? You not only need tools but rather a complex system that allows your developers to get the most out of their days and eventually, as a team, to reach their goals. This post is here to help you significantly improve your developers’ productivity.
