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How an ADR saved the day!
How an ADR saved the day!
Writing and share ADRs within your organization so that future teams can get an on-demand insight in how and why decisions were made!
Sami Lamti
Dec 4
Designing an ingeniously simple business
Designing an ingeniously simple business
In my formative years as a CTO, back when Basecamp was called 37 signals, I was hugely influenced by their 2006 book Getting Real which…
Mark Cheverton
Dec 2
Lessons Learnt from an Asynchronous Book Club
Lessons Learnt from an Asynchronous Book Club
Book clubs are a popular way for groups to work through a book or article together and share their insights.
Gareth Bragg
Nov 25
Identifying Design Patterns
Identifying Design Patterns
An important part of being able to discuss product design and architecture is having a common language, design patterns are a part of this…
Matthew Chappelow
Nov 24
Product Development Reteaming at Redgate
Product Development Reteaming at Redgate
In January Redgate will undertake another self-selection reteaming process. This post explains why we’ll be doing that and how we’ll do it
Chris Smith
Nov 20
How Redgate removed 50% of automated test code, and reduced test times by 30%
How Redgate removed 50% of automated test code, and reduced test ti...
The Redgate Change Control (RCC) team have been leveraging a new database provisioning tool, Spawn.
Eleanor Fuller
Nov 20
Development containers and databases — Gotta go fast
Development containers and databases — Gotta go fast
There’s something about the human condition that gives us a love of speed. Faster vehicles. Faster computers. Faster internet. We’ve been…
Matthew Flatt
Nov 20
… something on upping the number of meetings
… something on upping the number of meetings
In this blogpost I describe the advantages for a software team of having dedicated ‘chewing the fat’ time whilst working remotely, which…
TheCodeCleaner
Oct 22
Reflections on six months of mobbing
Reflections on six months of mobbing
The Guv’nors team (responsible for the Data Masker and Data Catalog products) has been mobbing extensively — in fact almost exclusively —…
Sami Lamti
Oct 16
Red, green… Reflect
Red, green… Reflect
“I am not okay…” — began my cry out for help on a Friday, after a restless night, due to an anxiety-inducing NY Times article about…
Lubos Michalic
Oct 13
Shallow learnings on Deep Learning
Shallow learnings on Deep Learning
I’m really enjoying the Deep Learning course from Andrew Ng on Coursera. I’d highly recommend it! This article gives the insights I got…
Jeff Foster
Oct 6
The interconnectedness of communications, architecture, and organisational design
The interconnectedness of communications, architecture, and organis...
CEO of Amazon, Jeff Bezos famously once stood up to the suggestion that employees should communicate more with his retort “No…
Mark Cheverton
Oct 6
… something on the case for automatic rebasing
… something on the case for automatic rebasing
In this blog I argue that as a developer working in a team, the more frequently you incorporate incoming changes the better — problems are…
TheCodeCleaner
Oct 2
Next.js development with instant dev-database provisioning
Next.js development with instant dev-database provisioning
Next.js has a fantastic development experience, but it can get complicated when you need a database. But things can be much easier…
Christopher Heppell
Oct 1
The four stages of the product lifecycle
The four stages of the product lifecycle
All product engineering is not the same.
Mark Cheverton
Oct 1
Testing database migrations
Testing database migrations
Database migrations help to keep database schema versioned, by documenting database changes in source control. But how should you test if…
santiago arias
Sep 18
How the Honeybees use The Mikado Method
How the Honeybees use The Mikado Method
Performing a large code refactor or implementing a new feature in a legacy codebase is going to be a great undertaking for any team. Even…
Owen Standage
Aug 14
Code Club End of Term Report
Code Club End of Term Report
We made it. July 17th is the last day of the school year so as of this week, Code Club is out for Summer.
Tim Dalton
Jul 14
Building a cli parser from scratch
Building a cli parser from scratch
Learn how to build a simple CLI parser in just a few lines of code, and then how to extend it with different features
Mark Jordan
Jun 20
Level Up Achievements — Our experiment with digital badges
Level Up Achievements — Our experiment with digital badges
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Chris George
Jun 12
Architectural Show and Tells
Architectural Show and Tells
Each team at Red Gate has full autonomy on what features they are going to work on and how to implement them. There are many advantages to…
Ibrahim Dursun
Jun 11
Planning: From Painful to Productive
Planning: From Painful to Productive
Working as a team of internal coaches isn’t easy. We do complex work with a wide range of people, across many areas and levels within the…
Gareth Bragg
May 29
15 tips for running remote design sprints
15 tips for running remote design sprints
Design sprints (a.k.a. research sprints) are great. A week or 2 of super focused collaborative work to answer critical business questions…
Neil Turner
May 5
Wellbeing and cohesion hacks from our newly remote teams
Wellbeing and cohesion hacks from our newly remote teams
Last week, members of our 12 dev teams got together to explore the practices and behaviours making a difference in our newly remote teams.
Chris Smith
Apr 28
Ephemeral databases with Spawn
Ephemeral databases with Spawn
Speed up your development workflow by using ephemeral, cloud-hosted databases that can be created, snapshotted and rolled back in seconds.
Andrew Farries
Apr 9
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