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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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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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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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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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SaaS enables data-oriented companies I don’t know any fellow Tech workers that never heard about Software-as-a-Service (SaaS): a large majority of us work in companies that either sell SaaS, either considering moving from traditional software to SaaS. While some implications are often well understood, such as recurring revenues, getting the […]
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