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I am excited to be confirmed as a speaker to give talks to 4 events this fall! Those conferences will be great opportunities to discuss engineering leadership and some best practices related to observability! See you there! Mathieu LamiotI am Mathieu Lamiot, a France-based tech-enthusiast engineer passionate about system design […]
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Thankfully, writing tests for a codebase is now a commonly adopted practice in tech: it helps to ensure that the code behaviors remain as expected over time, avoids regressions, and overall improves quality and stability. Developers who write tests quickly come to the following questions: “Am I doing this right? […]
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Even small companies have data Data can be a great asset for product-oriented companies, especially in Tech: it brings a bit of factual input in volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) environments. A few companies understood this early on such as Facebook, Google, Netflix, and LinkedIn, a bit more than […]
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Some powerful features have been added to PHP, especially since version 7.0 to foster secure and safe code. Type declarations and strict typing are among the well-adopted features often considered best practices for modern PHP code. However, this does not always play well with WordPress development where customizable code is […]
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Tech is a marathon, not a sprint. Whether you are developing a Tech product, putting together an engineering team, or even thinking about your own career, you should not sprint into it: Unfortunately, we all heard about burnout. Also, while the human brain is great at understanding complex environments, critical […]
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Shadow testing, also called traffic mirroring, is a QA best practice that can help reducing the risks of a release by testing it under “production conditions”, without writing more tests or manually generating scenarios.
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5 free plugins for WordPress plugin developers: integrated into WordPress admin, making it easy to access regardless of the environment in which the website is running.
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I assisted to FlowCon 2024, a conference centered around the theme “flow” in software and tech industries. Through the “engineering leader” track, this 2-day conference and its speakers delivered valuable insights and welcomed reminders on modern best practices, including productivity in tech, empowering engineering teams and culture.
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My team had to build a new Django, data-intensive service with CockroachDB. After a few months of developments and having the service in production for a while, I wanted to share a few feedbacks and discoveries we made along the road.
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This article presents some go-to guidelines I use when designing database tables.
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