2021 was our first full year in operation, and we’ve accomplished a lot! You’ve seen the Spotify end-of-year wrap-ups on social media, so we wanted to share our own 2021 highlights with our community. A lot has happened; from renaming our platform to new feature rollouts and exciting accolades, 2021…

Code Inspector started as code analysis and code review platform. When I started to seriously work on the project in 2020, the product solely focused on code reviews online. Since 2020, a lot of things happened. The company entered Techstars Boulder, raised a seed round (to be announced soon!), and…

As we changed our name from Code Inspector to Codiga, we want to explain what are the impacts for our existing users. Following this guide will make sure you take a smooth transition! Link update The main website is now https://www.codiga.io Our blog is now located on https://blog.codiga.io Our documentation is on…

Salesforce Apex is the primary language to integrate with Salesforce applications. Simple to learn as it borrows similar concepts of popular programming languages, it enforces a lot of good coding practices and facilitates the development of multi-tenant applications. As the popularity of the Salesforce platform grew, the Apex language became…

Even big companies hire bad developers. That’s something I learned the hard way when I was working at big tech companies in San Francisco and Seattle. To give you context, this is the story about the worst developer I’ve ever worked with. This guy, let’s name him Donald, nailed the…

Food production did not grow exponentially by hiring more farmers but by increasing productivity. The same will happen to software engineering. I grew up in the rural part of France, where cows outpace humans in residency share. My neighbors came from a long-lasting family of farmers but were not farmers…

If Javascript was a road, Typescript would be the guardrail: built on top of them, it helps you make sure you stay on track. But even if Typescript prevents you to shoot yourself in the foot in many cases, there are still some issues you do. …

Mistake 1: no documentation The top mistake from all projects: no documentation whatsoever. Without documentation, how do you even get started? How can you learn the project structure, the software architecture, and where to find the exact files you want to modify, update or just read? Documentation is the key to a successful project…

We’ve all been there (or maybe are right now) the never-ending pile of work, lack of sleep, and life stress taking the joy out of what we once loved. Anyone can get Burnout, it is a state of mental and physical exhaustion that can make you not enjoy your career…