The Top 6 Perspectives for Managing Technical Debt
acraske Some real-world analogies for describing technical debt A debt is usually something we do not enjoy. The de-facto association is with a financial debt, where we trade money now versus…
How We Test Our Event-Driven Microservices
What was our first strategic event-driven microservices project The project scope was at the heart of our back-office: The parcel and transportation management. The existing systems became a limiting business…
Accelerate our Business with Modern Technology Foundations
Architecture evolved to accelerate software delivery Existing companies usually rely on a mix of architecture patterns they are transforming towards modern technological foundations. The traditional Monolith architecture coming from the…
La Reboucle, Our C2C Digital Offer Leveraging APIs
The platform requirements clarified what we wanted to achieve First things first, the functional requirements for the C2C platform solution were: • Offer a branded La Redoute web store to…
Managing Transitions in 10 Actionable Steps
#1 Defining transitions to be able to drive them Managing a transition requires to secure three successive and progressive phases that compose it. The first phase of “Let go” consists…
5 Practices for Developing Remote and Distributed Teams
Organisational performance is supported by human interactions Software engineering ultimate measure of performance is driven by the business value delivered. The latest mainly resides in the capacity of an organisation…
Our Tech Center Growth in Portugal, from 15 to 100+ Part 2
. A need to take control of our IT operations In parallel to the development story, we wrote another one more focused on the IT operations part. At the beginning,…
Our Tech Center Growth in Portugal, from 15 to 100+ Part 1
The evolution is based on various company stories, evolution, context change that we will share below. Each story was based on projects, people and accomplishments as a team in order…
The Traditional Test Automation Pyramid, Pitfalls and Anti-patterns
Why automating tests in the first place? To contextualize our reflection, we must step back regarding our objectives. The Test activity aims to support Business to reach a Flow state…
Top 5 Takeaways from Open Source Lisbon 2019
. #1 Open Source is driven by community, but not necessarily free A common misconception about Open Source products is that they are free, leading to the perception that the…