Software-development

This blog post explores the intricacies of pull request management, offering best practices and tool recommendations like Axolo and Mergify to streamline the process.

Are you an engineering manager, VP of engineering or CTO of a growing tech company? If yes, stay with us, if no, you can still stay with us but I don't know why you would. In the dynamic world of tech, growth is inevitable, if you're good, or sometimes lucky. But as your projects expand and demands surge, how do you ensure that your engineering team scales effectively?

Code reviews are a big part of any tech team's day-to-day. They help us make sure we're writing the best code possible and catch any bugs early. But let's be honest, they can also be tiring and take up a lot of time. Plus, sometimes pull requests sit there waiting for a review, becoming 'stale' and holding up the whole development process. In this article, we'll dig into the common challenges of code reviews and how they can lead to delays and fatigue.

In this article, we'll demystify the five pillars of SOC-2 and provide a roadmap of features that SaaS companies can start building today to set themselves up for a smoother SOC-2 journey tomorrow.

Beyond simple chat interactions, ChatGPT can understand code, suggest improvements, and even troubleshoot errors. With natural language processing at its core, it provides meaningful interactions that can be beneficial to developers.

We were going to create our Slack bot. Prior to Axolo, the engineers were really just copy/pasting from GitLab to Slack. Obviously that's tedious work to copy and paste like that. As a side-project, we started working on our Slack bot to replace this copy/paste. We though of several other tasks the Slack bot could do.But it's difficult to find enough time in a day to build a Slack bot in addition to your work, and features, and other things that are important to your users. Then we found Axolo.

GitHub and Slack Integration Guide. From setup and key features to effective communication and security best practices. Explore customization options, including webhooks and custom Slack bots.

A reverse proxy server can serve as an intermediary between your server and any other third party (for us, it's a GitHub enterprise server). When your server needs to make a request, it prompts the proxy server to initiate the request to the third party, and vice versa.

In the vast ocean of the internet, where websites compete for attention like colorful fish in a coral reef, it's essential to make a splash with captivating visuals. Imagine sharing your website link on social media and having it stand out like a flamboyant peacock among a flock of plain pigeons.

It's been an exciting experience. Currently, we have around 50 to 60 engineers from eight different teams using the application. GitHub's notification system for the code review process is subpar. When we discovered Axolo, it was a game-changer. It's also bolstered our trunk-based development approach. The visibility of code reviews in Slack makes them a top priority for everyone, preventing delays and enabling us to deploy changes to production swiftly. Overall, it's been a fantastic improvement

Are you tired of the limitations of the official GitHub Slack integration? Do you want a more customizable and feature-rich solution for integrating GitHub with Slack? In this article, we'll explore why the official GitHub Slack integration is outdated and why Axolo is the superior alternative for boosting your team's productivity and workflow.

Learn how to create a custom Zsh script for iTerm that lets you open your current GitHub pull requests directly from your terminal. Enhance your workflow with this step-by-step guide.

Deciding whether to build or buy your GitHub Slack integration bot depends on your needs and resources. Weigh the pros and cons before deciding.

See why your team should implement a code review guidelines, and the 7 steps to get you started!

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

The most successful company spent more money on operational productivity.

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.

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.

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

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:

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.

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

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.

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

Seamless collaboration is more crucial than ever. One way to achieve this is through GitHub pull request Microsoft Teams integration. This integration not only streamlines your code review process but also enhances team communication. In this article, we'll explore the top solutions that offer GitHub PR integration with Microsoft Teams, focusing on features, ease of setup, and overall value.

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!

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

There are three available applications to connect your engineering team in Slack with GitHub Enterprise. Axolo, the collaborative application, the official GitHub-Slack application, and Toast, the personal notification bot. Learn more about how they work and how to set them up in our article.

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

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.

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