Developer Experience
Making a Big Repo Feel Small
Sparse checkout as the everyday way to work in a monorepo.
The Tide of Review
Why code review must be predictable, humane, and measured.
Beyond Squads: The Case for Centres of Excellence
When muscles and nerves aren’t enough to stand.
A Modern Approach to Engineering
The practices that make companies faster, safer, and engineers more valuable.
Federated Design Systems: Global, Brand, Product
One wardrobe, many uniforms, one team.
Boarding the Release Train
Why weekly release trains and a monorepo culture deliver stability, speed, and less toil.
Email Signals
Clarity in the address line is clarity in the organisation.
Boiled Frogs and Ringed Deployments
The case for ringed deployments: safety, visibility, and confidence at scale
Watching the Watchers, Part 2: How Scripts Break Your Frame Budget
Why borrowed milliseconds cost more than they seem.
The Integration Dilemma
Balancing integration, adoption, and the lure of best-of-breed.
Show Your Working
Why visible fixes build knowledge, demonstrate competence, and strengthen trust.
Trading Without a Ticker
Real-user monitoring is our market feed. Hide it, and we trade blind on player experience.
The Right Shoes?
The right shoes are the ones closest to production.