Homepage
Open in app
Sign in
Get started
Ingeniously Simple
How we build products at Redgate
Engineering
Design
Delivery
Culture
Level Up
All posts
Work with us
Follow
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
Using a Design Interlude to help frame and scope product initiatives
Using a Design Interlude to help frame and scope product initiatives
The Interlude is designed to help bridge strategy and objectives through as series of framing and scoping of questions.
Matthew Godfrey
Jul 13
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
Background
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
Forget dumb productivity measures & focus on software delivery performance with Four Key Metrics
Forget dumb productivity measures & focus on software delivery perf...
Find out how the Four Key Metrics from the book Accelerate help us track software delivery performance and drive continuous improvement
Chris Smith
Apr 8
… something on Tech Day
… something on Tech Day
As alluded to in my blog on Sprint Calendars, you will have seen the Monday at the start of a Sprint was labled as ‘Tech Day’.
TheCodeCleaner
Apr 3
Being deliberately meaningless
Being deliberately meaningless
when not making sense makes sense
Mark Jordan
Mar 31
Extending Kubernetes with Operators
Extending Kubernetes with Operators
Kubernetes operators are quickly growing in popularity. But what are they? How do you build one? And why would you build one?
Christopher Heppell
Mar 30
Making working from home just that little bit better
Making working from home just that little bit better
Whilst working from home is portrayed as cool and desirable, the reality is that it can be an isolating and difficult experience.
Ben Wood
Mar 25
Design groups at Redgate — How has it been so far?
Design groups at Redgate — How has it been so far?
As the lead product designer within the SQL Monitor design group (the other design group being DB DevOps) I’d like to share how things…
Neil Turner
Mar 25
Launching our Redgate Coding Club for kids
Launching our Redgate Coding Club for kids
These are challenging times we find ourselves living in right now.
Ben Mancini
Mar 19
Accelerating development with instant, production-like, containerised databases
Accelerating development with instant, production-like, containeris...
A while ago, we posted a blog discussing “How we develop apps that rely on databases in a Kubernetes workflow”.
Christopher Heppell
Mar 9
Why Redgate believes in the need for DevOps coaches
Why Redgate believes in the need for DevOps coaches
The coaching role at Redgate has gone through a few evolutions, from coaching specialist skills in testing, documentation and agile…
Ben Mancini
Mar 6
How do you change a culture?
How do you change a culture?
You’ve read a lot about culture (you might even have read The Importance of Culture) and now you want to change your culture.
Jeff Foster
Mar 6
… something on logging
… something on logging
Logging seems a really dull topic to blog about, but its actually incredibly important and very easy to do badly — it does require some…
TheCodeCleaner
Mar 4
The Importance of Culture
The Importance of Culture
Why Culture Matters
Jeff Foster
Mar 3
Command/query objects and beyond
Command/query objects and beyond
What to do when the repository pattern is the wrong abstraction
Mark Jordan
Feb 21
Thursday Thought — The reality of certification over experience
Thursday Thought — The reality of certification over experience
The Thursday Thought piece is our semi regular look at the world of software development. Always thought provoking, sometimes strongly…
Ben Mancini
Feb 20
Redgate Product Division becomes a Girl Guide
Redgate Product Division becomes a Girl Guide
A recent study from the Royal Academy of Engineering found STEM subjects (Science, Technology, Engineering & Maths) have a profound impact…
Ben Mancini
Feb 11
… something on Responsibility, Dog Poop, and the Six Stages of Debugging
… something on Responsibility, Dog Poop, and the Six Stages of Debu...
Around the time I learnt of The Dolphin Model, I had to make visits to what I would describe as a mostly dull, bleak, backwater Government…
TheCodeCleaner
Feb 9
About Ingeniously Simple
Latest Stories
Archive
About Medium
Terms
Privacy
