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Designing an engineering distribution model to fit your go-to-market
Designing an engineering distribution model to fit your go-to-market
While many may proclaim that there’s one true way to distribute modern software, the reality is there is no single distribution model that…
Mark Cheverton
Mar 10
Reteaming FAQ and an offer to help
Reteaming FAQ and an offer to help
Questions we’re commonly asked about self-selection reteaming at Redgate and an offer to help you plan your own process
Chris Smith
Mar 9
Efficient React editing with vim-surround
Efficient React editing with vim-surround
What makes learning vim worthwhile? While I’m far from a vim guru, and it often gets in the way, it speeds up editing code to the point…
Mark Jordan
Mar 9
Create disposable things
Create disposable things
A short summary of the two first chapters of Kief Morris’ excellent book on Infrastructure as Code.
Sami Lamti
Mar 7
From zero experience to public speaker
From zero experience to public speaker
Some steps to help fast-track your public speaking
Sybil Hoang
Mar 3
Call to action for CIOs and CTOs — use your laptop refresh #laptopsforkids — An update
Call to action for CIOs and CTOs — use your laptop refresh #laptops...
With lockdown three biting hard and parents returning to teaching their children from home Mark Cheverton Redgate’s CTO (Chief Technology…
Damon Witherick
Mar 2
How we restructured and rebuilt our teams in a remote world
How we restructured and rebuilt our teams in a remote world
CORE is a function within Redgate’s engineering team of around 45 people. We’re a mixture of development and operational teams whose role…
Damon Witherick
Mar 2
Distributed working: Working, from <insert location>
Distributed working: Working, from <insert location>
Think back to the time when we used to go in to an office to work. In the office, my day would consist of some desk time, going to…
Chris George
Feb 26
Documentation as Code — Adventures with DocFx
Documentation as Code — Adventures with DocFx
One of the growing topics in technical authoring over the past few years has been Documentation as Code — a philosophy that “you should be…
Gareth Bragg
Feb 23
An ode to Paradigms of AI Programming
An ode to Paradigms of AI Programming
A few words on why Paradigms of AI Programming should be on your bookshelf!
Jeff Foster
Feb 16
The Tuesday Failure Club
The Tuesday Failure Club
When I investigate a bug, I much prefer that its behavior is consistent and repeatable. If I apply the same inputs again, I get the same…
Rob Clenshaw
Feb 12
Software Leadership Roles at Redgate
Software Leadership Roles at Redgate
We’ve already shared what a software engineering career looks like at Redgate, but there’s far more to the modern software organisation…
Gareth Bragg
Feb 12
Feedback-feedback on Mobbing
Feedback-feedback on Mobbing
We’ve gotten some great feedback on our recent article on Mobbing! Thank you for that; please keep it coming!
Sami Lamti
Feb 9
How did our first remote annual reteaming go?
How did our first remote annual reteaming go?
This post shares the results of our annual self-selection reteaming process and how we had to adapt the activity during a national lockdown
Chris Smith
Jan 27
The Evolution of Tech at Redgate
The Evolution of Tech at Redgate
Redgate’s Technology stack has morphed. A few years ago, if you were a developer at Redgate you probably spent most of your time working…
Jeff Foster
Jan 15
Call to action for CIOs and CTOs — use your laptop refresh #laptopsforkids
Call to action for CIOs and CTOs — use your laptop refresh #laptops...
Every year businesses across the UK refresh huge numbers of laptops for their employees. I’m calling on CIOs and CTOs across those…
Mark Cheverton
Jan 11
Redgate Code Club 2.0
Redgate Code Club 2.0
Back in March 2020 as schools in the UK closed, we started a weekly online code club for kids. 800 students and 1500 hours of learning…
Tim Dalton
Jan 8
What does a Software Engineering career look like at Redgate?
What does a Software Engineering career look like at Redgate?
There’s no “one right way” to build software, and there’s no “one right way” to grow your career in software either. That can make it hard…
Gareth Bragg
Jan 7
Managing unmanaged objects in C#
Managing unmanaged objects in C#
Solving a tricky race condition in three different ways
Mark Jordan
Jan 4
A guide to avoiding OKR pitfalls (with worksheet)
A guide to avoiding OKR pitfalls (with worksheet)
Redgate, like many other companies, use OKRs (Objectives and Key Results) to help teams understand and describe their goals. And also like…
Michael Upton
Dec 18, 2020
What was the impact of Level Up Week 2020?
What was the impact of Level Up Week 2020?
What did Redgaters make of Level Up Week 2020, our virtual company L&D conference, and did it have the impact we were hoping for?
Chris Smith
Dec 15, 2020
How Focusing on Outcomes led to a Progression Framework
How Focusing on Outcomes led to a Progression Framework
We’ve recently shared about Redgate’s new Progression Framework, and how it’s helping folks at Redgate develop their skills and careers.
Gareth Bragg
Dec 15, 2020
Level Up Week 2020: How we evolved our internal tech conference for our remote-first world
Level Up Week 2020: How we evolved our internal tech conference for...
How we turned our internal tech conference into a virtual, global company event bringing Redgaters together to focus on L&D and reconnect
Chris Smith
Dec 8, 2020
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, 2020
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, 2020
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