Non-Traditional Project Planning
Most methodology discussions today start and end with how Agile is superior to Waterfall in software engineering; in reality, many other methodologies exist, each with its own pros and cons.…
Dependent Feature Flags
Recently I was given the task refactoring and reimplementing the service which determines the users' authorizations within our SaaS application. The major challenge was to do the work without anyone…
Software Shops and Name Recognition
Many engineers envision working for major technology companies: Alphabet (Google), Amazon, Apple, Amazon, Atlassian, EBay, JetBrains, Meta (Facebook), Redhat, Microsoft, Oracle, Salesforce. Sure, you'll be a small fish in a…
Personalized Code Searches using OpenGrok
Many organizations implement a full-feature code search/intelligence tool - e.g., SourceGraph or Atlassian Fisheye - allowing engineers to search the enterprise code base. Other orgs just use the native search of the hosted version…
Understanding Dependencies….Visually!
Show of hands: how many of us truly understand how your build automation tool builds its dependency tree? Now lower your hand if you understand because you work on build…
From On-Prem to SaaS
Organizations whom develop software solutions are often classified according to the targeted consumers: business shops whose solutions support the business (e.g., internal consumption), and software shops whose solutions are sold…