How a CTO makes technology decisions
It’s time to build a new product. Some people within the organization have championed individual native applications built in Swift for iOS and Kotlin
CTO
Merging 4 codebases with help of Rector
The set up When developing software, you sometimes come up with ideas that in the end don’t really work out. Depending on the idea
How to hire a CTO
During the past years, I’ve interviewed a lot of developers, technical leaders, and CTOs. There are a few key things I’ve learned about
The first days as a firefighting CTO — what to focus on when you are hired to lead a team in times of change
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
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
Pulse: Episode 2 - Between Us - Refactoring
The madewithlove team dives into their first Between Us session where they discuss problems that they encounter through their daily work. Today’s topic is
Dinner and a show
Because we are constantly learning, madewithlove hosts CTO dinners as a way of facilitating conversations between CTOs of Belgium. The role of a CTO is
One job, many roles. The different skills needed to be a successful CTO
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
Improving companies by sharing stories and cauliflower risotto at our first CTO dinner
At madewithlove, we believe humans matter. Being a well-rounded engineer is not only about processes, quality code, or technical choices. There are no universal
The Minimum Viable Product is not so minimum anymore
For the last decade every tech firm and aspiring app developer out there could count on the durability of one crucial structural dynamic in the
Refactoring towards testability
When working on a legacy codebase, you often have to make changes in code you don’t fully understand. When this code is not tested,