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19
Planning
Leemay Nassery
Reframing tech debt
If we bake addressing tech debt into our plans, could it become an opportunity to build abundance into our systems?
19
Planning
Upeka Bee
Planning in the dark
When planning product development before you have product-market fit, continual iteration and getting comfortable with discomfort can help light the way.
19
Planning
David Noël-Romas
An IC’s guide to roadmap planning
How individual contributors can leverage their unique perspective to advance alignment and clarity of vision.
19
Planning
James Turnbull
A primer on product management for engineers
Breaking down the basics and benefits for engineers looking to manage product development with precision and verve.
19
Planning
Victoria Kirst
Just hire great people?
Why enabling growing teams to flourish begins with an examination of our systems—and a well-considered hiring plan.
19
Planning
Ayden Férdeline
Planning for privacy
A look at the proactive practices and perspectives that can help companies center privacy in product development.
18
Mobile
Kamilah Taylor
Ready, set, multi-platform
Tips for picking your stack, shoring up your foundations, and scaling with grace.
18
Mobile
Daniel Devesa Derksen-Staats
Best practices for building accessible mobile apps
An overview of the mindset, strategies, and tools that will help you create apps that truly work for everyone.
18
Mobile
Gio Lodi
Meet the microapps architecture
How an emerging architecture pattern inspired by microservices can invigorate feature development and amplify developer velocity.
18
Mobile
Gergely Orosz
A primer on automated mobile testing
Insights for teams looking to tailor their test suites and build apps that just work.
18
Mobile
Pooja Bhaumik
Ask an expert: How can mobile teams best use feature flags?
CreatorStack’s Pooja Bhaumik shares how to reap the benefits—without the codebase bloat.
17
Containers
Liz Rice
Containers in the keep
Like the fortifications of a medieval castle, the multilayered practice of defense in depth can help protect your containers—no moats, drawbridges, or dragons required.
17
Containers
Nočnica Fee
A primer on containers
On core technologies, the engineering needs they’re best suited to serve, and possibilities for the containerized future.
17
Containers
Frederic Branczyk
Observing containers
As infrastructure scales, containers multiply, and data accrues, investing in the three pillars of observability can help you avoid information overload.
17
Containers
Amit Saha
Best practices for container compliance
How ensuring continuous compliance through automated policy enforcement can help keep your infrastructure, and your containers, stable and secure.
17
Containers
Safia Abdalla
Open-source excursions: Digging into Docker
To excavate deeper meaning and context from a project’s codebase, consider practicing open-source archeology.
16
Reliability
Lara Hogan
Your brain on progress
Strategies for nurturing that feel-good sense of accomplishment when doing largely invisible work.
16
Reliability
Safia Abdalla
Open-source excursions: Optimizing for operational resiliency
Documentation, automation, and a little sharing-is-caring can help OSS projects maintain their uptime.
15
Remote
Ale Paredes
How to leverage metrics to manage remotely
When used thoughtfully to inform and empower, engineering metrics can be an impactful supplement to qualitative data.
15
Remote
Alexandra Sunderland
Best practices for remote onboarding
Guidance for centering trust, psychological safety, and a sense of community from a new hire’s first day.
15
Remote
James Turnbull
A primer on managing remotely
If the events of 2020 mean you’re a newly remote engineering manager and you’re still trying to get things right, start here.
14
APIs
JJ Geewax
On web API versioning
A practical approach to understanding backward compatibility, versioning strategy, and how to strike a functional balance.
14
APIs
Michelle Bu
Eagerly discerning, discerningly eager
Approaches to crafting delightful, effective APIs that offer developers both convenience and stability.
14
APIs
Lucy Kerner
Ask an expert: How should organizations create and maintain threat models of API security risks?
13
Frontend
Lea Verou
A user’s guide to CSS variables
Long-requested but still underused, CSS custom properties for cascading variables offer revolutionary possibilities for collaboration and code reuse.
13
Frontend
Ian Feather
How to reevaluate your frontend architecture
A process to break the chains of old, and usher in an age of less complexity, greater consensus, and a more functional technical stack.
13
Frontend
Luca Mezzalira
Micro-frontends in context
When—and why—should developers consider this newer, smaller frontend architecture pattern?
12
Software Architecture
John Millikin
Exit the haunted forest
Enough is enough with that thicket of code impeding nearby work, trapping the unwary, discouraging the inexperienced, and exhausting veteran developers!
12
Software Architecture
Scott Wlaschin
A primer on functional architecture
Approachable ideas and best practices to help engineering teams apply the principles of functional programming to high-level design and architecture.
12
Software Architecture
Philippe Lafoucrière
The process: Rearchitecting after acquisition
How Gemnasium balanced speed, efficacy, and the notion of perfection as they rebuilt their source code.
12
Software Architecture
Andrew Howden
Systems analysis through postmortems
Postmortems can help measure the unknown in working software systems. They can also inform changes that make those systems more resilient—and better understood.
12
Software Architecture
Tomasz Kania-Orzeł
Ask an expert: What’s the best way to upgrade an outdated codebase?
Monterail’s head of technology prioritizes flexibility and sustainability via microservices and gradual—but total—rewrites.
12
Software Architecture
Lisa Phillips
Architecting privacy
How to protect user data at every layer of a web application.
11
Teams
Kevin Stewart
How to build a startup engineering team
Advice for when you’re starting from scratch and designing for growth.
11
Teams
Juan Pablo Buriticá
and
Katie Womersley
A guide to distributed teams
How thoughtful systems (and lots of emoji) make for happy, efficient teams—whether your desks are distributed across floors, cities, or continents.
11
Teams
Lena Reinhard
Ask an expert: How do you interview an engineer?
CircleCI’s director of engineering shares ideas for promoting positivity and inclusion—and shifting away from “culture fit.”
10
Testing
Tammy Butow
Tests from the crypt
Think of chaos engineering as unit testing your monitoring and alerting—or as exorcising your haunted house.
10
Testing
David MacIver
In praise of property-based testing
Example-based tests hinge on a single scenario. Property-based tests get to the root of software behavior across multiple parameters.
10
Testing
Keyur Govande
Ask an expert: What’s the value of transparency in testing and deployment?
Etsy’s chief architect explains why visibility increases collaboration and builds confidence.
10
Testing
Myra Awodey
and
Karin Tsai
The process: Launching Duolingo’s Arabic language course
How the language-learning app used staggered releases, dogfooding, and a culture of A/B testing everything to ship its first Arabic course for English speakers.
10
Testing
David Peter
Designing automated tests for React
Practical insights from Mailchimp’s approach to frontend testing.
10
Testing
Rushaine McBean
The art and craft of test-driven development
Knowing when and how to use this sometimes controversial (but often beneficial) technique is key.
9
Open Source
Juan Pablo Buriticá
A punk rock guide to conference organizing
DIY lessons from planning JSConf Colombia for anyone, anywhere who wants to plan accessible, sustainable developer events.
9
Open Source
James Turnbull
More productive Git
Tips for acquiring Git super powers.
9
Open Source
Safia Abdalla
Beyond maintenance
A consideration of how human-oriented investments are vital to a project’s long-term health.
8
Internationalization
Chris Niccoli
and
Lacey Butler
Beyond translation
A look at how Microsoft’s Cloud+AI division aligns customer-centered conversations with localization—at scale.
8
Internationalization
Allie Browne
Making mobile global
This primer builds upon the basics, presenting key considerations on internationalization and localization for mobile developers.
7
Security
Kevin Riggle
An introduction to approachable threat modeling
In this tale of two threat models, we explore how pairing our existing knowledge and experience with a few simple questions can help us build better systems and keep them safe.
7
Security
Serena Chen
Design for security
Applying design thinking to security practices can create a better, more secure experience for your users.
7
Security
Sha Sundaram
and
Lucie Lozinski
How to practice privacy without slowing down
No matter how lean your team, or how fast-moving your startup, you can—and should, and must—enact privacy principles. Here we discuss the difference between privacy and security, and what you can do to make good privacy practices the default.
6
Documentation
Stephanie Blotner
A primer on documentation content strategy
Tips to help engineering teams produce high-quality documentation—with or without the support of designated technical writers.
6
Documentation
Dave Nunez
Why it’s worth it to invest in internal docs
Good internal documentation leads to more stable and innovative development, and a better experience for users and developers alike. Here’s a look at some best practices, and how engineering orgs can make documentation a part of their culture.
6
Documentation
Aaron Suggs
What a deploy bot taught us about documentation
How Glossier used a reader-centric approach to simplify their development team’s code deployment process and improve velocity.
6
Documentation
Sweta Ackerman
Post-mortems to the rescue
Effective post-mortem documentation can improve the incident response process—and save on-call developers lost sleep.
6
Documentation
Poornima Apte
Documentation in an agile world
The long and short of the perks and pitfalls of using bug-tracking systems as central repositories for internal documentation.
6
Documentation
Ines Montani
The process: Transforming spaCy’s docs
Making your documentation work for users with vastly different needs is a challenge. Here’s how spaCy, an open-source library for natural language processing, did it.
5
Programming Languages
Ramsey Nasser
A crash course in compilers
Diving deeper into program language theory is a great way to grow as a developer. Here, we go through the essentials of using compilers in language design.
5
Programming Languages
Ramsey Nasser
Unplain text
A primer on text shaping and rendering non-Latin text in the shadow of an ASCII-dominated world.
5
Programming Languages
Adam Vartanian
It doesn’t have to be Turing complete to be useful
Using a Turing-incomplete DSL can have a host of advantages—from predictable resource usage to improved analysis.
5
Programming Languages
David J. Lumb
The ABCs of language migration
Migrating your codebase to a new programming language can have some big advantages, but the process can be daunting—and risky.
4
Energy & Environment
Ella Grimshaw
Stripe’s carbon-neutral journey
In 2017, Stripe decided to explore what it would take to become a carbon-neutral company. Here’s the process, motivation, and a worksheet for you, too.
3
Development
Alice Goldfuss
Center stage: Best practices for staging environments
Tips for developing and maintaining staging environments that will help you build more stable software systems.
3
Development
Suz Hinton
A guide to coding accessible developer tools
When we talk about accessibility in the tech industry, most conversations are centered around the end user. But how accessible are the tools we code for other developers?
3
Development
James Turnbull
An introduction to local development with containers
Here’s how using containers can help you reduce the risk of issues and errors in production.
2
Cloud
Patrick McKenzie
An engineer’s guide to cloud capacity planning
If you’re a small company with big dreams for the future, one of the biggest advantages cloud infrastructure providers have over traditional provisioning systems is the flexibility they offer you to adjust the resources your application uses.
1
On-Call
Increment Staff
On-call at any size
We take a close look at how to make on-call work at any scale, sharing industry best practices that apply to companies at any size, from tiny startups in garages to companies the size of Amazon, Facebook, and Google.
1
On-Call
Ryn Daniels
Crafting sustainable on-call rotations
Ryn Daniels shares strategies that everyone can use to build better, kinder, and more sustainable on-call rotations.
1
On-Call
Increment Staff
Ask an expert: How should startups approach on-call and incident response?
We asked several industry experts if they had any advice for small companies who are just starting to set up their on-call and incident response processes, and here’s what they said.
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