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Why Is the Developer Experience Important?

Why Is the Developer Experience Important?

The developer experience (DX) has come into focus as an increasingly important aspect of the development process. The course developers must take to deliver new features and functionality consistently can be winding—confusingly so. As processes expand to accommodate business needs, the developer experience grows more and more complex. If

GitHub vs. GitLab vs. BitBucket

GitHub vs. GitLab vs. BitBucket

Version control is super important for development teams and can make or break your collaborative coding efforts. GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket all stand as solid version control platforms to consider, but each has its own strengths and weaknesses. We have delved into these to help you determine which is right

What Makes a Good Developer Experience?

What Makes a Good Developer Experience?

Every team of developers has to choose a stack of tools and techniques to base their work on before they can complete a project. With so many new tools to choose from and a wealth of software solutions on the way every day, they’re tasked with selecting only the

Using Git Reflog to Find a Lost Commit

Using Git Reflog to Find a Lost Commit

Handling commits and branches is at the core of a developer’s efforts when they use Git as a version control system. Whether you’re working locally and preserving changes for later inclusion in another branch via a merge or managing a remote repository with many different contributors, the need

What Is DX (Developer Experience)?

What Is DX (Developer Experience)?

Software development depends on a heap of intricately entwined factors to function. From perfect tooling to the right labor-distribution strategies, an optimal developer experience is borne of a great many details being carefully planned and consistently executed, right from the offset. Getting the developer experience just right can help boost

GitHub Code Review Best Practices

GitHub Code Review Best Practices

Contributing code to projects hosted on GitHub can be a great way to leverage distributed development processes and a remote working paradigm to the fullest. But what happens when your code contributions need to pass a sniff test before they make it into the main codebase? That's precisely where reviews

How do I merge pull requests on GitHub?

How do I merge pull requests on GitHub?

Merging makes Git great, but it helps to know how and what you should do to get the most out of your merges. On GitHub, there are multiple merging options to choose from, and not all of them are perfect for your project's needs. Keep reading to learn what pull

Restoring Deleted Files from Git

Restoring Deleted Files from Git

Git is a great way to track and control the development of any type of software project, but issues like accidentally deleted files can quickly make for major headaches in your workflow. Thankfully, Git offers some simple solutions that you can use whenever you need to. We'll describe the details

How do I start a project on GitHub?

How do I start a project on GitHub?

GitHub is a great resource for developers of all kinds to control and document their development efforts. New projects sprout up on the platform at an alarming rate and for good reason: GitHub simplifies many complex aspects of distributed development and code safeguarding. However, despite the platform's incredible power, not

Is GitHub Actions a CI?

Is GitHub Actions a CI?

CI has taken the development world by storm since its inception, giving distributed teams a safer and much more cohesive means of organizing contributions to a shared codebase. However, as new tools are made available to support CI, teams and leaders must sift through them to find options that match

What is the difference between a merge commit & a squash?

What is the difference between a merge commit & a squash?

Git and GitHub can be tricky tools to master, but the better you get at using them, the more secure and consistent [https://blog.mergify.com/github-security-best-practices/] your coding work can become. Developers around the world leverage a number of Git and GitHub workflows to streamline their progress. Some of

Is GitHub Action Better than Jenkins?

Is GitHub Action Better than Jenkins?

There is an ever-present need for fast, efficient, and scalable automation tools in the rapidly expanding continuous integration and deployment space. Entire platforms have been built around the critical concerns of teams following CI/CD tenets [https://blog.mergify.com/what-is-a-ci-cd-pipeline/] to streamline their workflows better. These platforms simplify the

GitHub Security Best Practices

GitHub Security Best Practices

Managing a project on GitHub has its challenges. For many, mastering the entire Git workflow alone is enough to keep them busy for quite some time. However, beyond the basics of pulling, merging, commenting, and rebasing, super important security details loom like specters on the horizon, threatening to eradicate your

How do you automate a pull request?

How do you automate a pull request?

A pull request makes communication, edits, and debugging more manageable through separate repositories that receive updates from the main repository. Enacting a pull request, though, can be time-consuming. Fortunately, developers can streamline the cumbersome process via pull request automation. Find out how you can expedite daily workflow through an intuitive

What is a CI/CD pipeline?

What is a CI/CD pipeline?

Continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) play an instrumental role in most modern software development processes, allowing teams to push critical changes and updates into production code without overlooking vulnerabilities. Both of these components of modern development workflows improve code quality while empowering teams to maintain a consistent release

Why Is CI/CD Important in a DevOps Lifecycle?

Why Is CI/CD Important in a DevOps Lifecycle?

Fine-tuning the software development cycle is an ongoing process. You can never perfect it, but you can make continuous improvements. Having a CI/CD best practice [https://blog.mergify.com/4-ci-cd-best-practices/] in place is one way to streamline the cycle and improve overall efficiency. What is CI/CD? CI/CD

Git Commit vs Push: What’s the Difference?

Git Commit vs Push: What’s the Difference?

Many coders have used Git at one point or another. In fact, for most, it’s the version control system of choice since it's open-source and easy to use. A common discussion that comes up is Git commit vs push, or more specifically, how the two commands differ. In this

How to Increase Software Developer Efficiency?

How to Increase Software Developer Efficiency?

There isn’t a universal formula for software developer efficiency. If there were, sprint cycles wouldn’t be so chaotic with the next deadline always looming like a dark cloud. There are, however, tried and proven strategies for maximizing efficiency in software development. Consider these implementations for your next sprint

How to Merge Branches to Main in Git

How to Merge Branches to Main in Git

Merging is at the core of the version control system Git's feature set. Git is a powerhouse for pushing code improvements and modifications from a local work environment to a remote production server or public repository. However, completing a seemingly simple merge can quickly become a chore if issues arise.

GitHub vs. GitLab

GitHub vs. GitLab

Organizations and individuals all around the world use both GitHub and GitLab to help consolidate and streamline their development activities. GitHub boasts an impressive worldwide audience comprised not only of enterprises but local governing bodies as well. A comprehensive list [https://government.github.com/community/] hosted on github.com shows

How to Compare Two Branches in GitHub

How to Compare Two Branches in GitHub

GitHub offers a ton of value through its git-complementing feature set. In fact, without the use of GitHub, it’s likely that quite a lot of distributed development teams would struggle to meet modern demands and make deadlines [https://blog.mergify.com/the-best-github-productivity-tools/] on a regular basis. However, between Git

How to Undo a Merge in Git

How to Undo a Merge in Git

Merging is essential to every developer's workflow in Git. Without merging, your codebase would wither as contributors come up empty-handed when it comes time to mix their work in with what has already been published. Merging makes this all possible [https://blog.mergify.com/a-merge-queue-on-steroids/]. But merging can also make

How to Push to GitHub: A Short Guide

How to Push to GitHub: A Short Guide

GitHub has done quite a lot for the developer community over the years, facilitating the kind of collaboration on code that modern dev projects simply could not survive without. GitHub ships tens of thousands of improvements [https://github.blog/category/product/] per year to help keep dev teams all over

4 CI/CD Best Practices

4 CI/CD Best Practices

Continuous integration, delivery, and deployment (CI/CD) offer software development teams a holistic means of meeting more milestones in less time. This is generally accomplished by simplifying complex and tedious, yet overwhelmingly redundant tasks through targeted automation. Once simplified, continuous integration, delivery, and deployment processes work to support development initiatives

The 7 Best CI/CD Tools in 2021

The 7 Best CI/CD Tools in 2021

CI/CD tools can take your team to the next level of automated efficiency, effectively eliminating the need to manually test and review new features before they are merged with your main codebase and delivered to production environments. However, choosing the best option for your team takes careful planning. Below,