Learn about the top 10 code smells to watch out for in pull requests, with examples and tips for fixing them. Improve the quality of your code and avoid common coding mistakes with these practical tips.

Top 10 Code Smells to Identify in Pull Requests with Code Examples

DX by Axolo is designed to be a free tool to help developers share what they think is working great, and what need to be improved at work.

A free tool to make developer feedback effortless and insightful: DX by Axolo

Slack has created the Future of Work program, an incubator aimed at supporting French startups in the field. The program is designed to assist entrepreneurs as they navigate the changing world of work and aims to help them grow their businesses by addressing various key areas, including work-life balance, company culture, communication, automation, talent recruitment and management, and retention.

Axolo joins Slack' Future of Work incubator to help developers review pull requests

Do you think you reviewers leave your pull requests unnoticed on purpose? Is continuously asking for code reviews creating a small but persistent nevrose in your day-to-day? Great! Let's list why your team sucks at reviewing pull requests, and what you can do to improve it (before quitting your job).

5 reasons why your team sucks at reviewing pull requests

8 key takeaways from CTO of PostHog: Build on OSS, prioritize code quality, ignore security extortionists, get a coach, invest in tools, make people pay for your product, use favorite tools, have a bigger vision for projects.

8 key takeaways from Tim Glaser, CTO of PostHog

Even if GitLab is behind GitHub in terms of integrations, there are some great tools that you should implement within your engineering team. In this article, I will share with you the top 4 GitLab integrations that I use daily.

4 Gitlab integrations every developer should know in 2023

Axolo allows software developers to review pull requests in Slack and merge code faster. Our users either love it or hate it, but if you're a heavy Slack user and want to improve your code review process, give Axolo a try.

Is Axolo the right fit for my company?

GitHub Enterprise Server, Linear integration, awesome improvements and exciting bug fixes...

In 2023, code quality will be more about maintainability and reliability than anything else. This is because modern development teams are under more pressure than ever to release high-quality software on schedule. And with the rise of DevOps and continuous delivery, there's simply no room for error.

What is Code Quality in 2023 and how to improve it?

In this blog post, we will compare the top Linear Slack integrations and provide a tutorial on how to install the official Linear Slack integration. We will also discuss the different alternatives you have out there and how they can help improve productivity in your business.

2 Slack and Linear integrations you should check out

Developers are more productive when they have a continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipeline in place. GitLab CI/CD is a popular tool for managing pipelines, and one of its great features is the ability to send notifications to Slack. With Slack notifications enabled, developers can get real-time updates on the status of their pipeline, so they always know what's happening with their code changes. In addition, Slack notifications can help to improve collaboration among team members by providing a central place for discussion and feedback.

GitLab CI/CD and pipeline Slack notifications

Vast GitLab improvements, CI/CD, 12 bugs and much more...

The most successful company spent more money on operational productivity.

Operational vs Management productivity

Looking for ways to more effectively track your Jira tasks and stay up-to-date with important project updates? Integrating Jira with Slack is a great way to improve your productivity as a developer.

Top 3 Jira Slack integrations

3 BitBucket pull request Slack integration to help your team be more reactive when it comes to reviewing pull requests and get notifications of code related events.

Top 3 BitBucket pull requests Slack Integration

If you want to have the feeling to code more or to code as much as today but wish finish earlier, houray! You will find in this article 6 tools to help your day-to-day as a developer, from improving PR review time, passing through maintaining your flow, to the best software for pair programming.

Best 6 tools to improve developer productivity in 2022

PR summary, stand-ups, personalize reminders, and much more...

Open access to analytics, permalink to show code in Slack, ...

Here is an opiniated view on the best standup bot for engineering teams. We've compared them in a table for you to see.

Best Slack Standup Bot for engineering teams

In this article, we will be going through the code review best practices in GitLab. If you are interesting in learning how to use GitLab to be more productive while reviewing code, follow us!

GitLab code review best practices

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.

Top 6 Slack GitLab merge request integrations

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 Integrations in 2023

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 implement a GitHub Action in your repositories and that will use the Slack API with a OAuth token, 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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