Last week happened the biggest Ruby-related conference in Latin America, RubyConf Brazil. Our team was present in this edition, which by the way, was particularly interesting, therefore I’d like to share some highlights. The first highlight comes from the night before the event. We went to a bar with some conference speakers. It was really … »
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Kanban: caring about the whole development process
Being a developer at Plataformatec taught me to care about the whole development process, not only about my code. I want to share some thoughts about what I’ve experienced. As I could observe while working on Plataformatec projects, a lot of companies are moving to Kanban. Usually, these companies used to follow Scrum guidelines, working … »
Read more at the sourceIntroducing Discrete Integration
Continuous Integration has been out there for some years by now. The book, Continuous Integration: Improving Software Quality and Reducing Risk dates from 2007, but the first mention of the term has came up earlier in 1994. So, it’s been nearly 20 years since this idea is present in the software industry. During this time … »
Organizing microservices in a single git repository
Microservices has gained popularity recently and some projects I’ve worked on had followed this approach. Basically, it’s an approach of software architecture that allows breaking monolithic applications into smaller decoupled, business-oriented and isolated deployable applications. Each microservice normally is hosted in its own git repository, since it has very defined business boundaries and the code … »
Empirical knowledge formalization in project retrospectives
All software projects are challenging, although not all at the same level. Even the easiest projects are tough and demand attention in order to make good decisions and adjust the course. There are plenty of ways of doing so, like sprint retrospectives, where the good and the bad things are exposed and discussed. But, another … »
What Guardians of the Galaxy teach us about agile teams
Yeah, it might seem a little bit lame at first, but the whole idea is to talk about agile teams, so do not nitpick about the metaphors and examples using the movie. This post has spoilers, so if you have not watched Guardians of the Galaxy yet, go there and watch it, but come back … »
Where is the corruption of agile?
Dave Thomas wrote a blog post called “Agile is dead (Long live agility)“. In the blog post, he claims the use of “do Agile right” as a way to profit, whereas it should make people – developers specially – to deliver valuable software more effectively. It had a huge impact in the community in a […]
Sharing large repositories with your team
Hey, there! Here at Plataformatec we like to do project rotations. It means that every three months or so, developers can swap projects. It has lots of benefits like working with different people, getting out of the comfort zone, sharing skills and knowledge, and the best one: a new developer can spot problems that people […]