The Paths and Pitfalls of Software Maintenance
So, you’ve bought a house. (In this market? Congrats.) Keys in hand, you have a few options for managing that new bit of responsibility: Do the bare minimum to keep…
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The Hunt for Developers: Should You Hire, Try Staff Augmentation, or Find An External Expert?
Developers developers developers: We’re all competing for a sparse pool of developer talent, but the shortage isn’t slowing down the projects that need them. Sorting out whether to hire or…
CRDTs: Eliminating the Central Server in Collaborative Editing
If 2020 has shown us nothing else, it’s made clear that remote collaboration is no longer a nice to have, but a necessity. Customers and employees are working in isolation,…
Breaking the Stigma of Legacy Codebases
With today’s rapidly evolving software landscape and emphasis on clean, modern code, the term “legacy” often comes with a certain stigma attached to it. From a developer’s perspective, legacy means…
How Not-Invented-Here Syndrome Affects Technical Direction
The bad news, and the wall every tech leader hits: No platform decisions are clear cut. Investment capital, the processing power in our pockets, and a few generations of people…