Tag: developer

How Good Developers Become Good Engineering Managers
Being a good engineering manager means that, to some degree, you have a natural affinity for the work involved. And if you’re a good developer, you likely already have some of those ...

Loosely Couple Your Schema and Keep Data Separate
In software development, one of the primary goals is to write clean, maintainable and extensible code. To achieve this, developers often strive to design systems that are loosely coupled and separate concerns ...

How Application Developer Turnover is Shaping Security
Observing the developer job market for the past two years reveals a surprising truth that has a profound impact on technology organizations. In the “new normal” of hybrid work, life moves fast ...

5 Key Performance Metrics to Track in 2023
It's never a bad time to adopt healthy new habits for the mind and body, and for developers, it’s always a good time to consider new best practices at work. As 2023 ...

Don’t Make Big Tech’s Mistakes: Build Leaner IT Teams Instead
One of the biggest narratives in the U.S. concerning the current wave of tech layoffs is the fact that 'traditional' sectors have a prime opportunity to snap up new tech teams and ...

How to Supercharge Your Engineering Teams
With the economy still bleak, data and engineering teams that were already struggling to keep pace with business needs are now facing a potential hiring freeze or worse in 2023. That’s why ...

Optimizing the Developer Experience in 2023
2022 was a banner year for innovation, but not only in the traditional “churning out new features” way. Many organizations started thinking about their processes and how to amplify them to maximize ...

Why Can’t We Be Friends? Improving Developer-Tester Alignment
Sometimes coding can be such an art form that it deserves to be a masterpiece in a museum. Developers are proud of their code—at least until the so-called art critics (aka testers) ...

The Curious Connection Between Cloud Repatriation and SRE Ops
I have a fondness for philosophy. I’m about three classes short of a degree, and every few years I tell myself one day I’ll finish it. Thus, I am very familiar with ...

Don’t Let Developer Toil Affect the Business Value of Your Apps
It is no surprise that the world today is driven by apps. Organizations all over the world are basing their business goals on their capacity to integrate new apps quickly, and they ...

Technical Debt: When It Works and When It Doesn’t
Every software team has probably faced technical debt—the accumulation of little development deficiencies that will require rework down the line. Just like financial debt, they accrue interest as they build up, in ...

Retaining Talent as the Developer Role Evolves
Traditional development roles are rapidly evolving due to increased remote work and the Great Resignation. Company leadership must also adapt to retain that talent and ensure the success of their dev teams ...