At madewithlove, we join teams when things aren’t so stable. Maybe a key non-replaceable employee has left or a new investment is fueling growth. I join these companies as a CTO ad interim, someone to captain the ship through troubled waters. It’s hard at times since I’m...
1. Is roadmapping useful in software development? Suppose you are a mayor of Smallville. You might create a roadmap for the city that covers the various endeavors to be undertaken this year. An item on the list is “Expand Main Street” since citizens keep demanding that their commute time be...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
