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SCRUM ceremonies get a bad rap sometimes—too many meetings, not enough keyboards. But when they’re done right, they’re some of the most engineer-friendly rituals in modern software development. Each ceremony exists for a reason, and…
Terraform has its strengths and its challenges. Of its strengths, Terraform gets you referential integrity, reproducability, and a rich set of clients with great documentation. One of its challenges includes keeping sensitive secrets out of…
It’s pretty hard to be clever if you’re an executable file. Understanding how your programming interpreter views the world can save you days of development time and release you from the perils of virtual environments. After you hand your…
Putting a pin in the text editor holy war – do you use VIM, or Emacs?! We may point out hipster tendencies by using these “way better” vintage technologies, but there is still extreme value here. What you’re missing out on is having…
MoSCoW method Feature creep is a real thing. It’s pretty hard to present any technology proposal to a group of engaged engineers without large “blue sky” converstations starting. The MoSCoW method gives you four one word classifications…
You’re a developer. You work on several projects. You use version control, probably git, and you have stuff you need to get done. You’re writing code, in multiple projects. Running, testing, and serving these projects. And you probably even…