Observability in practice at Dutch PHP Conference 2025

On March 21st, 2025, I presented “Observability in Practice, so that issues have nowhere to hide” at the Dutch PHP Conference (DPC), WebDevCon & AppDevCon 2025 in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Observability in practice – DPC2025 par Mathieu Lamiot Mathieu LamiotI am Mathieu Lamiot, a France-based tech-enthusiast engineer passionate about system design […]

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Efficient Support Ticket Escalation: 8 Lessons from WP Media and RankMath

Increasing efficiency: the common engineering leader’s mission As I became in charge of the engineering departments of WP Media and RankMath at different points in my career, I faced a similar request: to improve the engineering team’s efficiency. The brief seemed straightforward – help the team deliver more features, faster. […]

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“L’observabilité en pratique” at Azur Tech Winter 2024 (French)

On November 26th, 2024, I presented “L’observabilité en pratique, pour que les problèmes n’aient nulle part où se cacher” at Azur Tech Winter 2024 at Sophia-Antipolis, France. Observabilité en pratique – Azur Tech Winter 2024 par Mathieu Lamiot Mathieu LamiotI am Mathieu Lamiot, a France-based tech-enthusiast engineer passionate about system […]

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AI for Engineering Leaders: How I Finally Focus on Real Leadership

The tech world buzzed this year with endless discussions about AI transforming software development. Every day, new headlines appeared about developers boosting productivity with GitHub Copilot or debating whether or not AI would replace developers. Yet, in this flood of coverage, I did not see much about how AI can […]

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Diff coverage: A refined approach to the unpopular code coverage metric.

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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Data without data teams: 3 simple approaches for small companies to leverage their data

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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