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My first software factory flooded the team with pull requests nobody asked for. The second one had the same problem, just with better visibility. It only started working when the team took ownership and the factory began to encode what we believe good engineering looks like.
No battle plan ever survives contact with the enemy In a continued push for asynchronous work, we attempted to tackle one of the last major
If you’ve ever worked with Redux – in the context of a React application or not – you may have heard numerous times that it was
If you try researching “Hexagonal Architecture” these days, you will find a lot of articles and videos that can feel overwhelming because they often include
Integrating Elasticsearch with Laravel enhances search capabilities beyond simple LIKE matches. This guide covers Elasticsearch basics, setting up a local environment with Docker, creating a demo application, and implementing Elasticsearch integration using observers and repositories.
As engineers, we want to focus on delivering value to customers. We noticed that a lot of the projects we work on are following agile
PHP is a dynamic language and while this certainly has its benefits, it also means that it’s not uncommon to see errors about calling
When managing data, you need to take into account several matters. One of them is concurrency. It happens when multiple people try to simultaneously access
If you’re a developer, odds are most of what you’re looking all day is text and code. Whether it’s in a terminal,
Some time ago I came across this article on Harvard Business School’s Working Knowledge blog about when founding CEOs need to go. It’s
As our projects grow in complexity, the list of tools they require also grows and remembering how to use all of them (with their different
Search is one of those life-changing innovations that we started taking for granted. Companies like Google make it seem so easy to search and
I hate Mondays. The theory is that if you hate Mondays you should change your job. And if you do that but find yourself hating
If you spend most of your day working in front of a desk you need to pay attention to your environment to prevent illnesses and
I’m new to pair programming. While the concept of pair programming is certainly not new to me (see among many, “The Clean Coder” by
Some weeks ago, I was doing a talk about how you can make pair programming effective and enjoyable. Everything went well until I got a
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