GitLab integration, new message if commit after an approval, ...

All in all, took us 2 days to migrate from Heroku to Digital Ocean, and we went from spending 560$ to 67$ per month for a similar type of server. We made some trade-offs:

My experience migrating our backend from Heroku to Digital Ocean

Detailed table PR analytics for graph, and many other wonders...

GitHub bots, sometimes referred to as GitHub Apps, are essentially bots that support the software development process on GitHub. These apps are first-class actors, so they can do just about any task on GitHub - sadly, they won't write code for you (yet). In this article, we will explain how to create a GitHub bots without using any specific language (you should be able to do it even if you work in Java, who knows?) and using the Probot framework on Node.js.

How to create your first GitHub bot to send notifications in Slack

We’ve reviewed and selected the top 4 Discord GitHub bot for pull requests.

Top 4 Discord GitHub bot for pull requests

Private PR channels, and many other wonders...

Engineering productivity managers help oversee and improve the productivity of engineering teams, making them key players in organizational growth.

Engineering productivity manager job

New Axolo application, Axolo Analytics, and many other wonders...

This article aims to help companies who want to survey their engineers to improve the developer experience in their engineering team. We developed this survey upon the recommendations of the SPACE framework, the four key DevOps metrics from Accelerate, and our own experience working with engineering teams through Axolo.

Developer experience survey template to improve your engineering processes

Tutorial on how to use Group Analytics with Mixpanel and Segment.

How to use Mixpanel group analytics with Segment for your collaborative SaaS?

Markdown compatibility, and many other wonders...

Our first changelog

We've tried and tested the best 3 GitHub pull request Microsoft Teams integrations. Read our short study to understand the value of each integration.

Best three GitHub pull request Microsoft Teams Integration

Cycle time may be measured in its most basic form by adding the time from the first commit to the time when the pull request is merged. In other terms, the rate at which you develop. Discover how to follow your cycle time and to reduce your code review time in our study!

How to reduce your cycle time and code review time?

💭 Have you heard of the Single responsibility principle (SRP)?

Single Responsibility principle for conversations

In this article we will explain how different GitHub and Jira integrations work and how to install the one you need.

Top GitHub and Jira integrations

We've listed 4 different ways you can subscribe to GitHub pull requests notifications: email, mobile, web, and Slack.

Github: 4 ways to subscribe to pull requests

Developer productivity, in general, refers to how productive a developer is during a specific period of time or based on any criteria. An organization would design objectives or metrics to track and set goals to attain or set a baseline of what is acceptable in order to be able to gauge developer productivity.

What is developer productivity and how to measure it?

Axolo will now send a notification when a pull request is created, and reacts with an emoji depending on the pull request status, prevent you from receiving Slackbot notifications, offer a better search in the app and delete unnecessary notifications.

Product Update: Emoji reaction on PR status, disabling Slackbot notifications and better engineer search

Dr. Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, and Gene Kim published the results of their years of research developed upon 23 000 datasets from international companies. Startups, enterprises, for-profit, not-for-profit are all part of this panel. 

How to implement the Four Key Accelerate DevOps Metrics

Here are 4 CTO blog you can learn from. CTO's who work or worked for Amazon, Spotify, Uber, Zapier, and more...

4 CTO Blog you can learn from

We've compared the best Slack and GitLab integrations to help your tech teams be more productive.

6 Slack GitLab merge requests integrations for high performing teams

There are three available applications to connect your engineering team in Slack with GitHub Enterprise. Learn more about how they work and how to set them up in our article.

Top 3 GitHub Enterprise Slack Integrations

Axolo will now send reminders to sleeping pull requests, change pull request titles upon their status, send weekly analytics and forward checks messages to Slack! Learn more here.

Product Update: Reminders, status, analytics and many more new year gifts

We've tried and tested the top 5 GitHub pull request Slack integrations. Read our short study to understand the value of each integration.

Top 5 GitHub pull request Slack Integration

We've categorized the best Slack apps for developers. Whether you are working in teams or you just want a bot for yourself we've got you covered in this post.

50+ Best Slack apps for developers

Code review is one of the most important practices engineers should have. Your code will always need to be reviewed, and you will always need to review your coworkers' code. If you approach code reviews as a learning process, everyone wins.

How to review code in GitHub

Pull request templates allow your organizations to have a default text when you create a pull request on GitHub. It is quite useful to make sure to follow a standard process for every pull request and to have a to-do list for the author to check before requesting a review.

GitHub pull request template

In Part II of our Pull Request Guide, we will dive into the processes of opening to merging a pull request and the best advices and integrations to master your code reviews.

How to open a pull request

Pull requests are an opportunity for a software developer to notify team members (or open-source project maintainers) that a feature or fix, developed on a different branch is ready. Learn more about them in our study.

What are GitHub pull requests

This product update will cover GitHub/Slack OAuth, /lgtm command, edit/delete propagation accross your tools, how we handle pull request checks and the Sentry integration.

Product Update: Engineer's OAuth, /lgtm command, pull requests checks and Sentry integration

In order to receive the right information in your Slack, there are two possibilities to set up notifications for GitHub Actions. The first one is to add an open-source project to your repositories and to use the Slack API through a GitHub Action, the second one is to install an application with a user interface to set up your notifications. We’re going to explain the best of both worlds in this article.

Top 4 GitHub Action Slack integrations

Engineering Manager Interview is a series of interviews launched by Axolo. Discover story behind Front creation, how they scaled their engineering team, and secured their technology.

Interview of Laurent Perrin, CTO @ Front

At Axolo, we think that two characteristics are most important for handling pull requests: attention and speed. A great code review should be done within a few hours after a request and be thoroughly processed. 

The ultimate Slack pull request reminder bot

This product update will cover: selecting status of Action or Deployment, code reviewing time slots for deep work sessions, mention in Github, request for changes / approve from Slack and self-onboarding in Axolo.

Product Update: Code reviewing slots, snooze a pull request, approve from Slack and mentions in Github

We decided to launch a new kind of referral program: the Donut 🍩 Ambassador program. It's your lucky day! What is it? For every successful company that installs and uses Axolo for more than two weeks, we will send your whole tech team free donuts. 🎉

Refer Axolo to another company, we provide donuts to celebrate!

Building Axolo we've interviewed 100+ CTO // head of engineering and we’ve asked them what they considered good practice. Here is the list:

14 best practices for software development from 100 CTO's

Engineering Manager Interview is a series of interviews launched by Axolo. Discover how MeiliSearch organizes its tech development with insights from its own engineering manager.

Interview of Clémentine Urquizar, Engineering Manager @ MeiliSearch

This product update will cover the complete integration of thread comment in Github and Slack, the launch of Axolo documentation online and our new onboarding process.

Product Update: A complete integration for code comments, axolo documentation and a new onboarding

Here is a quick dive into our development process and how our team is Axolo (to build Axolo). We initially started Axolo to improve our code review process. Even with a small team, we found that Github notifications and collaboration around pull requests could be improved.

How we use Axolo (to build Axolo)

Today's product update will cover our last features (pull request reviewers and labels in Slack + a better home view) and show our new Slack community Better Software Engineering.

Product Update: Better home view, request a review and handle pull request labels from Slack

Hey! This is the second product update of Axolo. Go check what we have been working on in the past two weeks.

Product Update: Github Action, weekly leaderboard, home page for open pull requests and many more

Thanks for being part of our beta! This is the first product update of Axolo. This month we have the awaited auto archiver and the first version of the configurations upon PR creation.

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