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What's a Merge Queue and Why Use it?
What is a Merge Queue? And when is it useful? This article provides the answers to both questions, and explains the concept of a Merge Queue in detail. A must-have for most developers.
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Content to read to assimilate the basics of software development but also to follow and understand the trends.
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What Is Continuous Integration? A Simple Guide
Source code changes are an integral part of every software development project. Software development teams must be in constant contact internally to track changes made to a project over time. To make this merging of minds easier, development teams use something called continuous integration. In this article, we’ll be
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GitHub Storage Limits: What Are the Alternatives?
GitHub gives developers an incredible amount of free functionality to use as they build on the platform. Storage of their code is one of many things developers likely take for granted on GitHub. However, not just anything can be stored in a repository on the platform. GitHub has a few
Technical
Is Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery and Continuous Deployment the same?
Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery and Continuous Deployment are like vectors pointing to the same direction but having different magnitude. The factor which makes them point in the same direction is the goal to make our software development process faster and more robust. Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery and Continuous Deployment all
Best Practices
The best Git branching strategies
The perfect Git branching strategy can help your development team get more done with fewer mistakes and minimal code-loss catastrophes. However, a bad choice of branching strategy in Git can quickly frustrate your team members, slowing down development considerably in the process. The strategies below each have their strengths and
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Learn about the most used flow: GitOps
Meet Bob, a software developer from France. Being a senior developer and working in a startup, Bob develops, deploys, and maintains his application on his own. Until the point when he came to know about GitOps, he maintained deployment pipelines which also had a lot of manual processes and requests
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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