Measuring the productivity of software engineering teams is notoriously difficult and can often backfire. However, we don’t need complex metrics to recognise when time and effort are being wasted.
Read more...When I started building medi, my command-line notes manager, the goal was a fast, local-first workflow. But how fast is fast? Could it stay fast at scale? With a database of thousands of notes, would search grind to a halt?
I love the terminal, but yes, most developers live in their IDE. It’s their primary workspace, and modern IDEs like IntelliJ have great, integrated Git support. You can stage, commit, push, and manage branches without ever touching the command line.
Read more...Monorepos are a powerful strategy for managing code. By keeping all your projects in a single repository, you get a single source of truth, simplified dependency management, and easier cross-team collaboration. As influencial thought-leaders and others in the DevOps space have pointed out, monorepos are a natural fit for Trunk-Based Development (TBD) because they both revolve around a single, shared mainline of code.
Read more...One of the most valuable pieces of feedback I’ve had about tbdflow came as a simple question: