Developer Experience
The Other Production
Players only see production. Engineers live in the systems behind it. When those systems fail, the product fails later. The two worlds are closer than they look.
Developer Experience
Making a Big Repo Feel Small
Sparse checkout as the everyday way to work in a monorepo.
Developer Experience
What Would It Take to Go Live Next Week?
Sometimes the fastest way to find out what’s broken is to try to ship it.
Developer Experience
A general guide to branching in a multi-product monorepo
How many teams ship one product across surfaces without collisions.
Developer Experience
The Tide of Review
Why code review must be predictable, humane, and measured.
Developer Experience
Federated Design Systems: Global, Brand, Product
One wardrobe, many uniforms, one team.
Developer Experience
Boarding the Release Train
Why weekly release trains and a monorepo culture deliver stability, speed, and less toil.
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Email Signals
Clarity in the address line is clarity in the organisation.
Developer Experience
Boiled Frogs and Ringed Deployments
The case for ringed deployments: safety, visibility, and confidence at scale
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Show Your Working
Why visible fixes build knowledge, demonstrate competence, and strengthen trust.
Developer Experience
Trading Without a Ticker
Real-user monitoring is our market feed. Hide it, and we trade blind on player experience.
Developer Experience
The Right Shoes?
The right shoes are the ones closest to production.