Practical advice for engineers who want to ship better software, faster.
What a CI build actually is: triggers, stages, caching and artefacts explained, and how continuous integration keeps your main branch releasable.
David White 6 min read A working catalogue of caching patterns and mechanisms with code examples: cache-aside, read-through, write-through, write-behind, refresh-ahead and more.
Gareth Clubb 8 min read A practical guide to the transactional outbox pattern: how to publish events reliably from a database write, avoid dual-write bugs, and handle replay.
Zubair Hasan 10 min read What is legacy code? A clear definition for developers, why Michael Feathers defines it as code without tests, and how to tell debt from legacy.
Jonny Rowse 7 min read Break dependencies in legacy code safely. A practical guide to sprout method, wrap method, and seams from Working Effectively with Legacy Code.
David White 12 min read A practical guide to secrets management: stop committing tokens, pick the right vault, rotate cleanly, and keep CI from leaking credentials in logs.
Gareth Clubb 10 min read A practical guide to setting and tracking SLOs: pick meaningful SLIs, calculate error budgets, alert on burn rate, and avoid the metrics that mislead teams.
Jonny Rowse 9 min read GitHub Actions patterns for faster, safer CI: reusable workflows, matrix builds, OIDC, dependency caching, concurrency control, and secret handling that scales.
Zubair Hasan 11 min read How architecture decision records help engineering teams capture context, avoid repeated debates, and ship better systems. A practical guide with examples.
David White 7 min read