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Benefits and Downsides to Implementing a Linter in Your Project

Having a linter makes collaboration across teams effective, since everyone can understand one another's changes to the code.

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5 Testing Tips for Software Platform Development

Software platform development deserves special strategies. Here are 5 tips to help teams succeed in design, testing, and quality assurance.

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3 Simple Tips for Speeding Up Your GitLab CI

Here's what I learned on a recent project to speed up our GitLab CI pipelines. Use these tips as starter ideas you can adjust to your needs.

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Plan Ahead to Maintain Compatibility in Event-Based Architectures

Event-based architecture is great for decoupling services, but it can be tricky when you need to make changes to existing event definitions.

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5 Types of Software Documentation & Tips to Manage Each

Today, I'll cover five different types of documentation in software development, with tips on how to use them as effectively as possible.

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How to Structure a Valuable README

A README is the welcoming committee to new developers, a trailhead for the existing team, and an archive that will exist a long time.

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The Benefits of a Spiking Phase in Agile Development

A spiking phase lets everybody working on the project gain a greater understanding of the system as a whole.

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Ways to Loosely Couple Common, Dependency-Agnostic Functions

In my current software development project, the client used is Axios, but we also want to make the client agnostic in case that changes.

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Write a Bash Script to Insert the Contents of One File into Another

Writing a bash script is a great way to make repetitive tasks trivial and speed up your development process.

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Quit Working with the Same Person and Switch Up Your Pair

When it feels that the learning has slowed down, this is usually a good time to switch to a new pair. Or, switch at the completion of a story or task.

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Build and Use a Component Library for a Better Development Experience

A shared component library provides a way to create reusable, consistently styled user experiences across applications, but there are tradeoffs.

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Why You Should Share VS Code Workspace Settings with Your Team

Visual Studio Code allows distinct user and workspace settings while still adhering to the workspace settings of your team's project all within one project.

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