Useful numbers for empowering System Design. — Note: Please make sure to do your own research and don’t rely on these numbers. These numbers are based on my own research and will be outdated by the time you read this article. Back of envelope calculations is a technique used within software engineering to determine how a system…

Project Oxygen “Great managers still matter” RESOURCE LINK One of the first resources you should check out is project oxygen by Google, which looks at the qualities of the best managers. Interestingly enough, the original purpose of the study was for Google to prove that managers had little impact and the headcount…

Have you always thought it might be fun to have something that plays a sound every time a build fails or a deployment completes? Having it on your local machine can be fun, but wouldn’t it be great if it was a device in its own right (maybe even hooked…

Over the years I have compiled a short list of my favourite books for creating great software. These books make perfect additions to the library of any tech company. Although we live in a world of Kindles and audio books, having a library of physical books can act as a…

When it comes to writing software, there are many different ways in which you can structure your teams. Within agile and scrum, these teams should be cross-functional and made up of the different skills sets needed to deliver new products and features. For example, the developer, tester and designer should…

In this article, I will walk you through how to create a simple piece of express js middleware. Express js is one of the most popular packages out there for hosting websites and web services with Node.js. …

Maybe you have come up with a bit of code and you want to share that with the world. Maybe you use the same code time and time again, which you want to store somewhere. …

If you have worked within the Software industry for a while, you have no doubt heard that infamous phrase of “that’s not agile!”. Every time I hear this, I really have to hold face in order to not visibly show how frustrating I find the comment. True, there are times…

I recently presented a talk at nor(DEV):con 2019 on generating code with Yeoman js. This article is the extended write up of that talk, with links to the corresponding resources. …