DevOps
Secrets Management for Developers: A Practical Guide
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 Developer productivity that works
Practical advice for engineers who want to ship better software, faster.
Gareth Clubb 10 min read DevOps
Service Level Objectives: A Developer's Guide to SLOs and Error Budgets
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 DevOps
GitHub Actions Patterns Every Developer Should Know
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 Architecture
Architecture Decision Records: A Practical Guide for Engineering Teams
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 Workflows
Developer Onboarding: From First Day to First PR in Under a Week
A practical developer onboarding playbook: get a new engineer from first day to first merged PR in under a week, without skipping the steps that matter.
Gareth Clubb 7 min read Backend
Database Connection Pooling Explained
A practical guide to database connection pooling for Postgres and Node.js. Pool sizing, timeouts, PgBouncer, serverless pitfalls, and real numbers.
David White 8 min read AI Tools
How to Review AI-Generated Code: A Practical Checklist
A practical checklist for reviewing AI-generated code: what to check first, common failure modes, and how to combine AI with human review safely.
Jonny Rowse 10 min read Backend
How to Design Idempotent API Endpoints
A practical guide to designing idempotent API endpoints. Covers idempotency keys, HTTP semantics, storage patterns and the edge cases that usually bite first.
Zubair Hasan 9 min read Code Quality
Refactoring Legacy Code Without Breaking It
Refactoring legacy code safely: a practical playbook with characterisation tests, seams, strangler fig, and small changes that keep production up.
Gareth Clubb 11 min read