Level-up Engineering podcast #34
Interview with Balázs Balázs, former Engineering Manager at Facebook about the knowledge sharing strategies he's used over the years with his engineering teams. You'll get tips, tricks and real stories from behind the scenes about how knowledge sharing works with real people, rather than how it should work in an ideal situation.
ManagementLevel-up Engineering Podcast #33
Panel discussion interview with Sarah Milstein, Sr. Director of Engineering at Mailchimp, and Tanisha Barnett, Director of Engineering at Mailchimp. They get into the details of holding skip level meetings, let them be one-on-ones or group meetings.
Here's everything you'll ever need to know about why you want to have your own skip level meetings, what they look like, what questions to ask, how to break the ice, keep track of them all, and much more. Master skip level meetings to become a great engineering leader yourself!
ManagementLevel-up Engineering Podcast #32
Interview with Jurgen Appelo, leadership speaker, writer and entrepreneur. He is an expert on the topic of managing teams to maximize happiness, which heavily bolsters productivity. Learn his tips, tricks and strategies in making it happen, and make your own team happier so you all win.
ManagementLevel-up Engineering Podcast #31
Interview with Gergely Orosz, self-employed author of 'The Tech Resume Inside Out', former Engineering Manager at Uber.
He shares unique insight into the process of hiring for a big tech company. We also look at tips to stand out from the crowd with your software engineer resume, and what companies should do differently to find talent more effectively.
ManagementLevel-up Engineering Podcast #30
Interview with Jonathan Rasmusson, ex-Spotify employee and author of 'Competing with Unicorns' about the key elements of making the Spotify model work.
Squads, tribes and guilds are the essential elements of the Spotify model, but there is a lot more to it. Leadership is the force that drives all the elements, makes the model come alive and deliver a great product. You get all the answers here about how that works.
ManagementLevel-up Engineering Podcast #29
Interview with Tim Olshansky, EVP of Product & Engineering at Zenput on creating a software engineer career ladder for your own team.
This isn't a template you can just copy and paste, then forget it ever even existed. This is a guide to creating a meaningful engineering career ladder from Tim, who has been through it more than once.
ManagementLevel-up Engineering Podcast #28
Interview with Ola Sitarska, Engineering Lead at Onfido about address diversity and inclusivity at the base level: integrating these values into the recruitment process.
Why do you want to put up the effort? How do you balance it with hiring the most competent developers? What goals are realistic? You get these answers and more right here!
ManagementState of Serverless 2020 Report
We give you the top 7+1 serverless trends based on research data. Benefits of using serverless, top serverless providers, top programming languages, use cases, biggest challenges, the community's wishlist for changes and much more!
TechnologyLevel-up Engineering Podcast #27
Software engineers, like any other person can get stuck. Their personal development slows down, their career may not move in the direction they want to go to.
Great engineering managers and leaders can do a lot to stop that from happening, facilitate growth for their developers and advancement from junior engineer to the senior level and beyond that. Get the know-how from Farhan Thawar, VP of Engineering, Shopify!
ManagementLevel-up Engineering Podcast #26
GitHub versus Facebook feedback culture comparison with a breakdown of their key elements and cultural differences. Learn the secrets of a healthy feedback culture both on an organizational and personal level from Ryan Nystrom, Director of Engineering at GitHub.
ManagementLevel-up Engineering Podcast #25
Avoid the rookie mistakes engineering managers and engineering leaders make at running one-on-one meetings. James Stanier, SVP of Engineering at Brandwatch, and author of "Become an Effective Software Engineering Manager" will teach you how to handle one on ones with both introverts, and people who complain all the time, along with many more tips and tricks.
ManagementLevel-up Engineering Podcast #24
Building trust across the board and becoming familiar with the whole context of a company is a common challenge for engineering leaders and managers as they transition to a new workplace. Nadia Alramli explains HubSpot's process to set up newly hired managers for their role.
ManagementLevel-up Engineering Podcast #23
Learn how to build an engineering team that not only survives under pressure, but consistently gets better. Adam Wolff explains the key ideas you need to know to make your team antifragile, and shows you how they've worked out through his personal experience from Robinhood and Facebook.
ManagementLevel-up Engineering Podcast #22
Learn the basics of engineering leadership from seasoned veteran and praised writer of the leadership world: Michael Lopp a. k. a. "Rands". Everything you need to know is in this interview, so you won't have to learn the hard way, like Michael did.
ManagementLevel-up Engineering Podcast #21
Do you want access to the best talent out there in the tech world? Obviously. This is why you need to build your engineering employer brand. You aren't Google or Netflix, you may not even become them, but you can make yourself visible in the right way to the right people, and you can get them into your organization. Learn pro tips from Sarah Wells, Technical Director at Financial Times!
ManagementLevel-up Engineering Podcast #20
Learn the top time management and productivity tips, tricks, hacks and practices engineering managers use to get on top of their endless mountain of work. Profit from the hard earned experience of Matt Martin, CEO of Clockwise to become the best manager you can be!
ManagementLevel-up Engineering Podcast #19
Learn the steps of creating a culture document for an engineering company! In this interview Rob Volk reveals why Foxbox Digital needed a culture deck, and what impact it had on their day-to-day work.
ManagementLevel-up Engineering Podcast #18
Master the 3 basic leadership styles to build an amazing engineering team and maximize your own potential as well. In this interview with Shawn Fair, you'll learn how, when and why to use the democratic, autocratic, and free rein leadership styles.
Level-up Engineering Podcast #17
Utilize social engineering tactics to make your developer team more effective and productive than ever before. In this interview, Olivia Liddell from Amazon Web Services shows you how to use social engineering for the greater good.
ManagementLevel-up Engineering Podcast #16
Leading vs managing comparison, true stories of failures, shortcomings, struggles and solutions that lead to success in an executive leadership position. András Fincza, VP of Engineering, Emarsys shares his invaluable experience to tell you what you've never heard about leadership before.
Level-up Engineering Podcast #15
Clean code is the most essential part of building great software with your team. In this interview Uncle Bob shares half a century worth of experience and practical tips about measuring code quality, leading your team, having them write clean code, and selling clean code standards to impatient clients.
ManagementLevel-up Engineering Podcast #14
You've just become a manager, and don't know where to start? You're close to a promotion, and want to be ready? It's unclear what you should focus on, how to get accepted, and how to streamline your ocean of tasks?
Jeff Perry has faced all these problems, and he'll help you find the way to success in this new role.
ManagementThe COVID-19 is everywhere, and you should be asking yourself what to do to protect your team and your company. I'll show you how we, as a software development agency handled the outbreak, the quarantine, and the started working remotely from one day to the next. I'll give you tips that'll keep your team safe and productive.
[Podcast + Blog post]
ManagementLevel-up Engineering Podcast #12
You're moving to a new company as an engineering leader?
You're just assuming the role for the first time?
You've been at it for a while and wondering if you're doing all right?
Check out this interview with Steven McCord, Senior Vice President of Technology at WhyHotel, where he shares his best tips and tricks on how to get started as an engineering leader, and become successful at it over your first 100 days.
State of Software Development 2020 report
Level-up Engineering Podcast #13
Software development trends come and go rapidly. A tool or framework used today might be obsolete tomorrow. We take a snapshot of the industry every year, to see how it has evolved, and make an educated guess as to where it’s headed.
The 2020 report gives you the data you need to benchmark your activities against other survey participants, get insight from others walking in your shoes to improve your developer team and keep up with the industry.
ManagementLevel-up Engineering Podcast #11
Building your engineering culture is a delicate process with little proven know-how going around on it. In this interview we're giving you an insight into Monzo's engineering culture to show you how it can work if all is going right, and get you tips to make it so for your own people.
We collect the best blog posts and other content for software engineering managers from the last weeks. Here is the roundup of the top resources for March 2020 to make you the sharpest tech leader you can be.
ManagementWe recently held a company-wide hackathon at Coding Sans, and went with making it a Lean Poker event. It proved to be a great way to teach agile principles to our developers, it was a lot of fun for everyone involved, and got everyone in the company closer together.
AllLevel-up Engineering Podcast #10
We interviewed Greg Sabo, from Asana on recruiting engineers, to learn how one of the top companies in the industry faces this challenge. Check it out for actionable tips that can take your recruitment process to the next level as well!
ManagementWe collect the best blog posts and other content for software engineering managers from the last weeks. Here is the roundup of the top resources for February 2020 to make you the sharpest tech leader you can be.
AllLevel-up Engineering Podcast #9
Handling conflicts and giving feedback are two of the most important things a manager needs to do. It has to be a given to lead a productive developer team.
So we interviewed Tom Bartel, Engineering Team Leader at Trivago to share some of the tips he picked up over the years he spent as a manager.
ManagementKeeping up-to-date with the technology trends is absolutely essential for tech leads and engineering managers. Sharpening your managerial skills is just as important if you are to succeed at your job. But how to do it?
In this post we're taking a look at how successful tech leaders stay current with the trends, and what are the best ways to find great content, and the best format to consume them in.
Level-up Engineering Podcast #8
Engineering productivity is the key to unlock real treasure in the software development industry. So we interviewed Camille Fournier, well-known and successful engineering leader on engineering productivity and for real-life, actionable insights on how to maximize it.
We collect the best blog posts and other content for software engineering managers from the last weeks. Here is the roundup of the top resources for December 2019 to make you the sharpest tech leader you can be.
AllLevel-up Engineering Podcast #7
How do you scale a distributed engineering team?
It doesn’t involve just hiring more people, but also scaling communication, defining processes, making the culture strong enough and defining the vision, so you can build the new team on a solid foundation. It’s layers upon layers of work with no end. Juan Pablo Buritica, ex-VP of Engineering at Splice has managed it more than once, and explains how he pulled it off in this interview.
ManagementLevel-up Engineering Podcast #6
In software development it's more likely now than ever, that as a manager, you'll face the challenge of leading a fully or at least partially distributed developer team. It's a brand new thing for everyone, but Tim Olshansky, current VP of Engineering at Zenput has faced this already. In this interview he shares what he learned on managing distributed developer teams over the years, and gives you actionable tips on making it work as well as possible.
ManagementSpecifications are well-loved by managers, because they detail every tiny step up-front. A specification builds a nice hierarchy, and it makes you think that once you hand it over to the developers, they follow it to the letter. This isn't how it works though. You need more flexibility, and a Backlog provides you exactly that.
ManagementLevel-up Engineering Podcast #5
Recruiting experienced software engineering managers is a tough job, and you can't possibly keep up the pace during rapid growth. You should start training engineering managers on top of hiring, homegrown talent often works out better in the long run. But training software developers to become engineering managers is far from trivial.
We interviewed Matt Greenberg to learn how he handles this challenge.
ManagementWe collect the best blog posts and other content for software engineering managers from the last weeks. Here is the roundup of the top resources for December 2019 to make you the sharpest tech leader you can be.
AllScaling developer teams is a massive challenge in the industry, just as scaling companies in general. The key to it is scaling your culture the right way as your team grows. Here we'll show you how to do it through real life examples.
ManagementHaving troubles with Fabric.js? So did I. Let me show you how I overcame all the early obstacles you'll likely run into as well, and made one of the top drawing libraries work for me.
TechnologyLevel-up Engineering Podcast #4
Sometimes, teamwork gets tiring, communication gets weird, fresh ideas are rare and far between, and people are more likely to jump down each other’s throats. Sound familiar? Building psychological safety could help you fix all that. We interviewed Dan Rummel, Senior Director of Engineering at One Medical on this topic.
ManagementThe best blog posts and other content for engineering managers from the last weeks. The roundup of the top resources for November 2019 to make you the sharpest tech leader you can be.
AllLevel-up Engineering Podcast #3
Software companies often grow quickly, which means developer teams often suffer to manage scaling at the pace of growth and necessary workload. We sat down with Rich Archbold to pick his brain on how they scaled developer teams at Amazon, Facebook and Intercom.
ManagementThe best blog posts and other content for engineering managers from the last weeks. Top resources for October 2019 to make you the sharpest tech leader you can be.
AllLevel-up Engineering Podcast #2
Senior developers are in high demand, so mentoring developers to get there as quickly as possible is extremely valuable, yet mentoring is highly underutilized in software development. We sat down with Gergely Orosz, Engineering Manager at Uber to learn from his experience on mentoring developers.
ManagementHow to design, implement and maintain large-scale enterprise applications in Angular, part II.
TechnologyDeveloper burnout is real killer problem. It kills projects, companies and careers. So we put together a list of the signs you can catch, the reasons you should be looking at, and the things you can do to counter developer burnout. All actionable tips based on real-life experience.
ManagementEven 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.
ManagementTop 4+1 code review tools and linters to make sure your team writes quality, clean, and easily maintainable code reliably.
TechnologyRecruiting 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.
ManagementLevel-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.
Learn the best practices for outsourcing software development: the invaluable experience of a CEO running a development agency will save you a tremendous amount of time and extra work.
ManagementCode 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.
TechnologyTechnical 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.
TechnologyYou 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).
ManagementEvery 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.
TechnologyIn 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.
ManagementIf you’re a software architect looking to get to know people like you who are also working on exciting things, then GSAS (Global Software Architecture Summit) is exactly for you.
AllHow to design, implement and maintain a Large-Scale Enterprise Application in Angular.
TechnologyState of Software Development 2019 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.
ManagementHandling secure data (such as API keys) in any project’s repository is a crucial part. In previous years, I came across many approaches to resolve this issue. Some of them did a pretty great job, but others didn’t resolve it at all.
In this post, I’ll show you step-by-step how to configure frontend projects using dotenv with .env file, dotenv and convict npm packages. This configuration works with any frontend app that use webpack to bundle the application.
TechnologyInconsistent UI components, bugginess, lack of clarity and costly time lost through miscommunicated requirements all pile up to leave the project in disarray. It’s a horrible place to be and a horrible place to get out of. But what has this got to do with prototyping?
Prototyping forces your team to think before it acts. It creates a shared vision for the eventual success your project will become. Let’s dive a little deeper into the advantages and disadvantages of building a prototype.
ManagementGPUs are getting more and more memory and compute capability nowadays. This is super good news if you are using them for HPC (high-performance computing), but some workloads may only require a fraction of a card. This is the point when GPU orchestration comes in the picture.
TechnologyIn this post, I show you how a modern software outsourcing company like Coding Sans works to increase trust and deliver on the promise. This post also provides some actionable tips you can apply anytime when you outsource software development.
ManagementToday’s data is coming in at speeds and substances we’ve never before seen. Systems designed during the days of disco are being used to handle petabytes of information in real time. Much like the Bee Gees, these systems are out of touch with the demands of today. If simplicity, scalability, agility are important for your database then you might need a non-relational database.
TechnologyYou know how agile works. You understand why it’s so successful. But, how does it work in real life? How do real-world businesses go from a completely different method—or no clear method at all—to agile without losing excessive time, money, and patience? In this post, we examine 3 distinct, real-life case studies of agile integration in agile app development to see the trials and tribulations play out for themselves. There’s something you can learn from their difficulties as well as their dedication to the method.
ManagementWhen you’re looking to build an MVP and later a production mobile app as a small team, the task at hand may seem daunting. You’ll obviously want to focus on the actual mobile app design and the UI, which by itself is no small feat. On top of that, you’ll need to figure out how to develop and release the app for both iOS and Android platforms. This is exactly the situation I faced as a solo-founder and developer of DealCheck – a cross-platform app that helps real estate investors analyze potential properties to buy.
It would have been impossible for a one-man team to build and release an iOS, Android and online application without leveraging existing technology-as-a-service solutions, which can drastically speed up development and allow small teams to accomplish big projects.
In this post, I will walk you through how you can use AWS Lambda@Edge feature to redirect website visitors based on their browser language.
TechnologyThe best way to direct and manage tasks across your software delivery system is to keep a close eye on workflow via a designated, centralized release management system. However, it often seems that regardless of the methodology you choose, or how carefully you monitor workflows, it is hard to predict the duration of individual tasks. Neglecting to properly steer resources can lead to bottlenecks, causing delays to downstream tasks and impacting delivery schedule. In this blogpost, we introduce you to Kanbanflow for effective, Kanban-based portfolio and project management.
Management"I’d really like to make this change, but I’m afraid to, because I have no idea how that will affect the rest of the system.” If you’ve ever felt this way - most of us have at one point or another - it’s likely that the code you are working on is basically a Jenga tower. Pulling out one block could cause everything to come crashing down! It’s a typical situation when it comes to refactoring your architecture from monolith to microservices. Here are 6 signs your code base is like a Jenga tower!
TechnologyHave you ever felt at a loss about which features to include in your minimum viable product (MVP)? Have you ever wanted to build a strategy to help you choose the perfect features for your minimal viable product? The lean startup methodology can help you figure out what minimum viable product development should look like. If you can find and hire good software developers, they can help you figure out what features to include even faster.
ManagementA microservice architecture can help developers build, manage, and scale services more efficiently. It’s an architecture that’s ideal in a world where new devices, touchpoints, and consumer trends are emerging faster than ever before, which is why big brands like Netflix and Amazon are all leveraging microservices.
But adopting microservices brings about a cultural shift that can deeply impact the developer experience, either positively or negatively.
ManagementHiring an offshore software development agency to build your idea, trusting them with tens of thousands of dollars and putting your reputation on the line seems like a hard decision to make.
Picking a good outsourcing company can be really tricky. I've heard fifty different stories about how people got burned. Communication that is not set properly, unclear project expectations and bad guidelines make it difficult for both sides.
You assume the company you found has good intentions to build your product or service, but what if they are just there to take your money and pretend to do something? It's crucial that we do our homework and ask proper questions when choosing the right partner to create a win-win situation for both sides.
ManagementApplication testing is a key element to make sure your web applications run smoothly, as it tells you whether the tested scenario works without a hitch and the features run as validated. High test coverage, code reviews and pull requests are required for a fast pace and high-quality code. Docker gives you the best of this because you can run your tests in containers or isolate them in development and deployment.
TechnologyWhen it comes to software development, we talk a lot about the “hard” skills. Raw talent, individual intelligence, knowledge of frameworks and libraries. We all know these are important. But we often forget about the role of “soft” skills. At the end of the day, every software developer is human. (At least, for now.) As humans, we are driven and affected by more than just our abilities and IQ. Psychological and human elements play a huge role in the ability of a developer to do their job. One of the biggest factors is how individuals on a team feel about the work they’re doing. Do they feel invested and energized? Or are they just there to punch the clock and collect their paycheck?
ManagementProcesses help us determine the best ways to do things and then make sure we repeat that approach again and again and again. This makes it easier to achieve success, find problems in current approaches, and to add new people to your teams.
Having clearly defined and well documented processes means the training and onboarding of new developers don’t need to be so micromanaged and can bring fresh developers up to the point of creating value for the business even faster.
But when is a team ready to add new members? When and how do we add people into this process in a way they can contribute?
ManagementThe idea of ‘serverless’ is NOT about removing the servers completely (or you couldn’t use the internet at all), but essentially paying for services that mean that someone else manages the servers for you, thereby reducing maintenance load…
Not having access to the server can make things harder, but not impossible. And it’s not necessarily wrong, just different.
And the same applies to securing serverless apps. In some ways, it’s easier than securing traditional web apps. In other ways, it’s harder. And in yet other ways, it’s merely different.
In this post, we’ll summarize these key differences and help you secure serverless apps.
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.
ManagementWhat 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.
TechnologyFiguring 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.
TechnologyA 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.
TechnologyThere 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.
ManagementState 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.
ManagementBuilding 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.
TechnologyThere 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.
ManagementIt’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.
ManagementPerformance management is broken.
Today’s widespread ranking- and ratings-based performance management is damaging employee engagement, alienating high performers, and costing managers valuable time.
But, this post will show you how to fix it.
ManagementSwitching to a microservice architecture seems easy, but tech leaders tend to underestimate the complexity of the project and make disastrous mistakes. Before transforming your monolithic system into microservices, or starting one from scratch, you need to carefully consider the technological and organizational challenges that will arise.
TechnologyWe all know knowledge transfer is key to building a kickass software developer team, but among many pressing issues, knowledge transfer is one of the first things that will be put aside when a burning deadline is approaching. But, the problem still stays here: knowledge is unevenly available in your team. In this blog post, we show you the most effective knowledge transfer methods for software teams.
ManagementHiring great software developers is a huge challenge. Actually, this is the biggest challenge (tech) companies are facing, according to the State of Software Development 2017 report. The report also uncovered the most efficient ways tech leaders are using to overcome the hiring challenge. This post features the most popular 4, offering some tips you can use to get developers on board.
ManagementWhen you as a software developer start examining a new project’s specifications that just arrived at your team, you start planning the architecture. Every application uses data handling and storing, so you will need a database. Nowadays, there are tons out on the market, so you can become confused with which one to choose. Well, it highly depends on what your soon to be app is about. In this blog post, we will discuss the opportunities of file storing with relational and NoSQL databases through the comparison of MongoDB and SQL Server.
TechnologyI decided to make a plugin, which is more advanced than showing just a native toast message on a device, so I chose the acceleration sensor access from a cross-platform app. In this blog post, I show you how to develop a native Cordova plugin for Android.
TechnologyRequirement prioritization is one of the biggest challenges a software team faces. Actually, 25% of tech leaders said prioritizing software development is their biggest challenge. It turns out there are many different ways a software development team can do it. Each requirement prioritization decision should be influenced by customer needs, always following the business’s needs. From this post you will learn a hypothesis-driven way to prioritize software development.
ManagementWhen building any kind of server side app, you will eventually have the following thoughts:
Given values to these kinds of parameters will yield a configuration. It is a crucial part of the system as our application will have lots of configurable elements, so it must be handled properly throughout the codebase.
In this article, we will look at the DOs and DON’Ts of Node config handling.
TechnologyServerless is a software architecture where the code runs in the cloud but we don’t really know the OS and the hardware it uses. Everything is managed by the provider except the functions we upload.
Serverless is not just an architecture. It is also a powerful framework we can use to develop and deploy serverless applications. After reading this guide, you will be able to deploy infinitely scaling NodeJS web application in minutes. Other supported languages are Java 8, Python 3.6 and 2.7, .NET Core 1.0.1 (C#)
TechnologyOne of the biggest challenges startup tech leaders are facing is prioritising software development. In fact, 25% of the respondents said this is their biggest challenge, according to the State of Software Development report. We decided to ask more than 10 tech leaders (mostly CTOs) about the practices they use to prioritise software development. The goal of this post isn’t to select one best way but rather to show different approaches you can select from or gain inspiration from as you come up with your own method. If prioritising software development is a challenge you’re facing then this post is for you.
ManagementBuilding an app is a pretty exciting thing. It’s tempting to just jump on it and start creating it. Well, no matter how tempting it is, slow down a bit. You need to be clear about these basic things before you start building your app. You don’t want to build something no one wants to use, right? Which is why it requires some planning, validation and prioritisation before you even start coding. In this post, we put together 7 things that you should do before coding your app.
ManagementAs a Node developer, chances are that you've already encountered with both Mongoose, and ODM (Object Document Mapper) library helping you connect your app to a MongoDB and TypeScript. A common problem however when using Mongoose with TypeScript is that you have to define both the Mongoose model and the TypeScript interface which leads to redundancy. Finally, here is a guide to overcome this challenge.
Technology