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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…
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santiago arias
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…
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Owen Standage
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.
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Tim Dalton
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.
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Matthew Godfrey
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
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Mark Jordan
Level Up Achievements — Our experiment with digital badges

Level Up Achievements — Our experiment with digital badges

Background
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Chris George
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…
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Ibrahim Dursun
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…
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Gareth Bragg
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…
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Neil Turner
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.
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Chris Smith
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.
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Andrew Farries
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
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Chris Smith
… 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’.
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TheCodeCleaner
Being deliberately meaningless

Being deliberately meaningless

when not making sense makes sense
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Mark Jordan
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?
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Christopher Heppell
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.
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Ben Wood
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…
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Neil Turner
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.
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Ben Mancini
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”.
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Christopher Heppell
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…
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Ben Mancini
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.
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Jeff Foster
… 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…
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TheCodeCleaner
The Importance of Culture

The Importance of Culture

Why Culture Matters
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Jeff Foster
Command/query objects and beyond

Command/query objects and beyond

What to do when the repository pattern is the wrong abstraction
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Mark Jordan
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…
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Ben Mancini
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