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Zero-downtime releases: blue-green, canary and feature flags
How to ship new versions without downtime: rolling updates, blue-green, canary, feature flags and database migrations using expand–migrate–contract.
- Development process
- DevOps
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Development process
How to run development: planning, releases, acceptance and documentation without bureaucracy.
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CI/CD for a small team: setting it up on GitHub Actions
The stages of a CI/CD pipeline, a working GitHub Actions example for a PHP project, how to keep it fast and which mistakes to avoid.
- Development process
- DevOps
5 min read
Technical debt: how to explain it to the business and manage it
Where technical debt comes from, how to measure its impact, how to explain it in money and time and how to pay it down steadily without stopping development.
- Development process
- Technical debt
4 min read
How to manage a remote development team
Remote teams are managed through transparency: a tracker, short meetings, demos and written decisions. We cover the practices, communication rules and how to keep people.
- Team
- Development process
5 min read
Manual testing in a small team: how to organise QA
How to organise manual testing without a QA department: who tests, a pre-release regression checklist, a bug report template and a test environment.
- Development process
- QA and testing
5 min read
AI coding assistants: what they really speed up and what they do not
Where AI assistants really speed up development, what research says, the risks they bring and how to build them into your process without losing quality.
- Development process
- AI
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Code review: how to make it speed development up, not slow it down
Why code review slows teams down and how to fix it: small changes, same-day responses, automation for style, a reviewer checklist and a description template.
- Development process
- QA and testing
5 min read
Why software projects miss deadlines and how to prevent it
Deadlines slip because of optimistic estimates, growing scope and waiting for decisions. We cover the causes, early warning signs, a simple forecast and what to do once you are behind.
- Project estimation
- Development process
5 min read
Developer onboarding: how to get a new engineer productive in a week
How to onboard a developer in a week: access prepared in advance, one-command setup, a first-week plan, the right first task and documentation that actually helps.
- Team
- Development process
5 min read
Scrum or Kanban: what should a small development team choose?
Scrum suits building a new product in short iterations, Kanban suits support and a stream of tasks. We compare them and show how a small team can combine both.
- Development process
5 min read
Backlog prioritisation: RICE, MoSCoW and other methods
How to decide what to build first: RICE, MoSCoW, the value-effort matrix, the Kano model and cost of delay, with worked examples.
- Development process
- Product
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The discovery phase: what it is and why it is worth paying for
Discovery turns an idea into scenarios, prototypes and a grounded estimate before development starts. We cover what it includes, how long it takes, its cost and when to skip it.
- MVP
- Development process
- Product