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Continuous Integration and Deployment in the era of Containers

Continuous Integration and Deployment in the era of Containers

One of the first steps when you are deploying an application with Docker Swarm or Kubernetes is to publish the image in a registry. It might not be clear why you need it, especially if you are used to deploying containers using Docker Compose. Docker Compose can build your image...

Habits, retrospection, and ancient reptiles

Habits, retrospection, and ancient reptiles

I saw an interesting heuristic regarding habits recently but I couldn’t find the source anymore. Bear with me while I paraphrase a bit. If you want to build a habit, never skip it twice. Skipping your workout once is okay, we’re all human, we all have changing priorities...

Pulse: Episode 4 - Mike Veerman on product management, scoping, and poor leadership in software development

Pulse: Episode 4 - Mike Veerman on product management, scoping, and poor leadership in software development

Episode description On this episode of madewithlove’s Pulse podcast, we’ve invited Mike Veerman (Software strategist) to discuss with our own Vinch Battaglia (CTO in residence), Jonas Drieghe (Software engineer), and Dimitri Van Lunter (Engineering manager) things like: * What does it mean to be a software strategist, and what...

Creating a Scientific Pitch Notation Type using template literal types

Creating a Scientific Pitch Notation Type using template literal types

Ok. So. The honeymoon phase is over. I can say TypeScript is steadily becoming a part of my daily stack. While working on converting music-fns from Flow to TypeScript I bumped into a feature I didn’t know existed. But first, a little bit of context. music-fns is a utility...

The personal touch when onboarding an employee in a remote world

The personal touch when onboarding an employee in a remote world

These are strange times for everyone. Imagine starting out in a new remote job when all you’ve ever been used to is going to an office and seeing all your colleagues face-to-face every single day. A new job: exciting! Meeting all your colleagues only through a screen: scary? It...

Developing engineers into leaders

Developing engineers into leaders

Why would you want your engineers to become leaders? Managing a team of just a few engineers and their output should be easy. You can go deep into the details of solutions and still keep a good high-level overview of everything that’s happening now and should happen in the...

12 Factors in the era of containers

12 Factors in the era of containers

The 12factor manifest is a set of guidelines to help us build SaaS applications that can easily be operated and scaled without much effort. It was originally put together by the folks at Heroku and is as relevant today as it was when it was published in 2011. Heroku uses...

Why tech startups fail - based on auditing 50+ SaaS startups

Why tech startups fail - based on auditing 50+ SaaS startups

I’m sure you’ve heard the statistic that 9 out of 10 startups fail. How can you win against such odds? Is there a secret startup handbook to read or an investment due diligence checklist to follow? Madewithlove has audited over 50 companies, usually as part of an investment...

Seniority level in software engineering and how to assess it

Seniority level in software engineering and how to assess it

As a non-technical founder, it can be difficult to determine if your development team is composed of engineers that are on a staff engineer, senior or junior level, or somewhere in between. This especially becomes a big challenge when it’s time to hire your first engineer or expand the...

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