Software Craft
Testing Feature Flags
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Tom Hombergs
- August 20, 2022
Putting your code behind a feature flag means that you can deploy unfinished changes. As long as the feature flag is disabled, the changes are not having an effect.
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Testing Time-Based Features with Feature Flags
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Tom Hombergs
- August 3, 2022
Time-based features in a software application are a pain to test. To test such a feature, you can (and should) write unit tests, of course.
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Feature Flags: Make or Buy?
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Tom Hombergs
- March 15, 2022
According to Google’s DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) group, software delivery performance influences organizational performance in general. That means if you’re good at delivering software, you’re good at business.
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One Best Way - Continuous Improvement in Software Engineering
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Heidi Waterhouse
- November 7, 2021
Let’s talk about what it means to find the one best way of doing something. We’ve been trying to answer this question since the dawn of someone teaching anyone how to do a task.
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Laws and Principles of Software Development
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Tom Hombergs
- October 31, 2021
In discussions around software development, it’s almost impossible to avoid quoting a law or two. “This won’t work because of ‘The Law of X’!
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Atomic Habits in Software Development
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Jessica Cregg
- September 25, 2021
Compound interest is both a powerful and apt analogy for when it comes to devising your workflows. Improving a process' efficiency and efficacy by 2% can feel negligible.
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