Articles from devinterrupted.substack.com

Articles from devinterrupted.substack.com

“Lumping low-risk pull requests into the same pipeline as high-risk pull requests is one of the most persistent flaws of modern programming.” The creator of the Ship/Show/Ask branching strategy makes a strong case for teams to allow regular shipping based on trust and individual developer expertise (devinterrupted.substack.com)
2022-12-5 Programmer programming

“In startups, your junior dev is more of a threat to security than North Korea.” Appreciate a security expert who knows startups shouldn't waste resources overdoing security when they still don't have product-market fit. (devinterrupted.substack.com)
2022-12-3 Korea Startup InfoSec

“A lot of my ADD-related traits that have always been considered negatives, are actually considered strengths as an SRE.” Funny, affecting interview with the CTO of Honeycomb.io - very worthwhile if you're someone coming with the same background as her. (devinterrupted.substack.com)
2022-11-29 Interview

“If Elon Musk wanted to destroy his developer teams, the quickest way to do it was stack-ranking developers and measuring lines of code” 1,000%. Only team-based metrics make sense. (devinterrupted.substack.com)
2022-11-29 Programmer Elon Musk

After analyzing the work of 2,000+ dev teams, data scientists found that companies using C++ and Ruby have the longest wait times between when a pull request is created and code merged (~150 hours and ~90 hours). Companies using Java and C# had the shortest (between 20-30 hours). (devinterrupted.substack.com)
2022-10-9 C++ C# Ruby Java

Study: Healthy dev teams are most commonly found in hybrid work environments, followed closely by remote-work companies. In-office orgs rank last. (devinterrupted.substack.com)
2022-9-28

Completing the promise of CI/CD with Continuous Merge (devinterrupted.substack.com)
2022-9-22 Promise

TIL "Hyrum's Law" is a based on Hyrum Wirght, a real engineer at Google whose coworkers - after hearing him frequently refer to an already known phenomenon without a name - referred to it as "his law." It's now the accepted name for it across all of engineering. (devinterrupted.substack.com)
2022-9-15 Google

"If a developer suspects that it sucks to build things, they're right. The last decade has been focused on building software infrastructure with little-to-no attention on making it easier for developers to create. The next 10 years NEEDS to be about helping devs produce." 100% agree. (devinterrupted.substack.com)
2022-9-14 Programmer

"Too many companies treat dev burnout like a 24-hour flu where they can just send a person home or tell them to take the day off." A trained therapist-turned-engineer reveals how she diagnoses healthy dev teams from ones doomed to fail. (devinterrupted.substack.com)
2022-8-5

"Nothing is more damaging in programming right now than the 'shipping at all costs' mantra. Not only does it create burnout factories, but it loads teams with tech debt that only the people who leave from burnout would be able to tackle." Amen to this. (devinterrupted.substack.com)
2022-7-21 programming

"Your business doesn't know how to translate DORA metrics to anything they understand or care about." Excellent essay on how dev teams have been using DORA metrics in a way that doesn't make them important to anyone besides the people who implemented them (devinterrupted.substack.com)
2022-7-20

“Encouraging more organizations to allow their teams to contribute to open source is ultimately going to make those teams happier.” Cool research on how dedicating time for devs to work on open source projects has made them more engaged at work. (devinterrupted.substack.com)
2022-7-16

TIL About "Developer Ride-Alongs" - where programmers at "disruptive" companies spend the majority of their onboarding actually onsite with customers watching them and looking for solutions to their problems (devinterrupted.substack.com)
2022-7-13 Programmer

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