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Yesterday, I came back from WordCamp Europe 2025 in Basel, where I had the chance to be both as a speaker and as a sponsor with group.one, and our brands WP Rocket, RankMath & WP.one! My talk at WordCamp Europe 2025: From Reactive to Proactive: Modern Observability for WordPress at […]
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A real-life example I recently had the opportunity to dive back into hands-on coding for my teams—something I hadn’t done for several months while focused on other leadership responsibilities. I knocked out a few quick PRs, each taking about an hour to implement and test. Simple fixes, well-tested, ready to […]
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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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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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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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