Organisational Design
Beyond Squads: The Case for Centres of Excellence
When muscles and nerves aren’t enough to stand.
Developer Experience
Boarding the Release Train
Why weekly release trains and a monorepo culture deliver stability, speed, and less toil.
Developer Experience
Boiled Frogs and Ringed Deployments
The case for ringed deployments: safety, visibility, and confidence at scale
Organisational Design
The Integration Dilemma
Balancing integration, adoption, and the lure of best-of-breed.
Player Experience
Not Just Upwards
A healthy system creates space to rise, and has the strength to let go.
Developer Experience
Keep the Heart Beating
The case for a common process supervisor.
Developer Experience
Timeouts Aren’t Safety Nets
They are canaries. If they go silent, the answer is not to ignore the silence, it is to make the air safe again.
Player Experience
Why Native Still Matters
The rise of PWAs and TWAs doesn’t make native redundant — it sharpens its purpose. Native still matters where the web can’t reach: the lock screen, widgets, ecosystem SDKs, and the moments that weave your app into players’ daily lives.
Developer Experience
The Trunk is the Team
An orchestra can rehearse in separate rooms. Each section sounds fine to itself. Strings keep time, brass hit their notes. But the first time they come together the rhythms do not match. What was music alone becomes noise together. The only way to avoid it is to rehearse in the
Developer Experience
Local Without Losing Shape
A player in São Paulo should not feel like a guest in a London lobby. Same skeleton, different clothes. The craft is to let the outfit change without replacing the bones every quarter. Most teams treat localisation as a tidy table of strings, currencies, and date formats. Necessary, yes. Sufficient,