Software Engineers Don't Scale

Software Engineers don’t scale … or how I learned to stop worrying and love commenting my code. NOTE: I originally published this on the Inside Heetch blog This article, by Mathew Skelton and Manuel Pais, reminds me that, for everything that’s been made simpler in this era of cloud computing and micro-services, we’ve paid a price in terms of cognitive load. We simply need to keep more context in mind when making or evaluating any change to our code....

Thu Jul 4 2019 · Geoffrey J. Teale

Developer Care

Those of you who know me may be aware that at the end of August 2018, I left my job at Avocet to join a new team at Heetch. The main allure of the role at Heetch was the chance to be part of a team deliberately set up to act as a catalyst for product developers. The concept under which we work is known as “Developer Care”, and back in November I wrote a fairly extensive blog post for Heetch about what that means and how it came to be....

Wed May 15 2019 · Geoffrey J. Teale