Teams from Scratch —Part 1: Psychological Safety

December 2017 — I had the privilege and opportunity of transitioning from Senior Developer at Unruly to a Team Lead of a newly-created team.

The new team was created to tackle a recurring issue at Unruly — our teams…

Hierarchical Java Configuration

Hard-coding secrets in application code is not ideal.

It makes rolling them hard by coupling them to an artifact, and is not particularly secure, if the artifact itself is compromised.

Proposal-led Development for Driving Innovation

Our processes at Unruly are frequently in flux — changing to suit the needs of the Product Development team, or re-aligning to fit the current aims of the business. This affords us great power to apply our resources where they are most needed, but…