Announcing "Merge-After" Condition
We are pleased to announce the release of a new condition for our Merge Queue and merge automation, the Merge-After condition. Schedule Condition Limits While creating a general rule based on schedule condition was possible, it did not allow you to manage pull requests individually. - name: merge on working
How to Improve Developer Experience by Managing Your Pull Requests with a Merge Queue
Many companies have invested in their software departments and, therefore, their teams of developers. At the same time, development practices have changed, and the SDLC has also evolved with the adoption of CI/CD. The growth of development teams and their productivity brings some issues. Indeed, in the context of
I Lost 15% of my Engineering Team. How to Make More With Less? Tips to Maintain Your Productivity
This article is the following the first one ''I lost 15% of my engineering team. How to make more with less? Tools to maintain your productivity''. As you noticed in the title, we already talked about tooling before and how it could be important to companies.
Announcing Datadog Integration
At the core of every new integration lies the needs of our clients; in this instance, they requested the integration of Mergify into Datadog. This may seem unusual at first, but there is a valid reason behind it. To effectively monitor and manage developer teams, it is crucial to have
I Lost 15% of my Engineering Team. How to Make More With Less? Tools to Maintain Your Productivity.
With the economic situation, many companies, such as Meta, Amazon, and Twitter, are shifting, modifying strategies, taking actions and cutting costs. They must act fast and strong as they feel the cost variation triggered by inflation. As investors require companies to be profitable, big lays-off worldwide are being triggered. Facing
Embracing Remote Work: How We Built Mergify as a Successful Asynchronous Company
In a world where remote work is becoming increasingly popular, we at Mergify stand out as a prime example of a company that fully embraces the remote-first philosophy. Founded in 2018, before the COVID-19 pandemic, our roots are deeply ingrained in the world of open source and remote collaboration. In
GitHub Security – Best Practices to Protect Your Repositories and Metadata
Millions of open-source and commercial software projects use GitHub as their default hosting service, enabling developers from various locations to work together on shared codebases. Let’s look at the numbers: GitHub has recently announced that 100 million developers are now using the platform, making it an integral part of
ChatGPT: Shaking Up Recruitment in the Tech World
A year and a half ago, our startup, Mergify, dove into the exciting yet challenging world of technical recruiting, specifically targeting software engineering talent. As a growing company, we were eager to find bright trainees and apprentices still in school. We believed in hiring individuals with basic algorithm knowledge who
GitHub Pull Request Merge Queue FAQ
In February 2023, GitHub released its pull request merge queue feature in public beta. If you have no clue what a merge queue is, you can read about it here or watch our video below. After the announcement, many questions popped up on social media. We built a list of
Build or Buy Software: Useful Tools and Frameworks to Make the Right Decision
This article is directly linked to ''Build or Buy Software: the Questions to Ask Yourself''. Indeed, you are not all alone in facing this question, you can use techniques to help you choose the right decision. As you can read in our first article, there are
Level Up Your Docker Security: Uncover Mergify's Battle-Tested Workflow for Container Image Scanning
At Mergify, we use Docker containers to run our production environments. Containers help developers deliver their code faster and ship their features in a snap, and they are now used substantially in most software-centric organizations. We are no exception. We build our images, run them, and ship them to customers