Copilot is rapidly becoming a ubiquitous part of the developer experience. But there’s a big different between just having a smart autocomplete and using the tool to its fullest extent.

To level up your skills from talented junior coder to seasoned senior developer, here’s 10 tips to guide you in how to think and what to focus on in this challenging but incredibly rewarding phase.

If you’re in the business of organizing work for others (whether it’s product, project, engineering or people management) - have you at times felt “bad at delegation”, heard yourself arguing “it’s quicker to just do this myself than hand it off” and ended up as a central puppeteer but also single point of failure in many projects? This is what happens when you’re organizing work horizontally, and the solution is vertical delegation.

The DORA Metrics: Deployment Frequency, Lead Time for Changes, Change Failure Rate and Mean Time to Recovery are a great way of keeping track of the performance of your engineering team. But how do you measure them, and do you actually need to in order to gain value from them?

There is one particular Git pitfall that engulfs many junior developers on their noble quest. It’s called the “Luke Skywalker”.

Code reviews are part of what makes the developer profession so awesome! But many see it simply as a tool for senior developers to point out flaws. In this post, we’ll go through how to turn them into so much more - an incredible tool for developers to learn, increase the quality of work and get valuable feedback.