Engineering Articles
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Analytical Metrics for Programmers: How NOT to Use Data to Improve Efficiency
Tuesday, October 10, 2023 in Engineering
Photo by [Christian Lue](https://unsplash.com/@christianlue?utm_content=creditCopyText&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=unsplash) on [Unsplash](https://unsplash.com/photos/X3GWw4irXm8?utm_content=creditCopyText&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=unsplash) The business world has long appreciated analytical events as a source of information about what users are doing to optimize the sales process. We want the business to take into account the company’s revenue when making decisions about product …
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When QA slows down your team
Tuesday, August 09, 2022 in Engineering
Image Photo by *Artem Ka* from [unsplash](https://unsplash.com/) Abstract When a team wants a QA specialist to work on their project, it’s worth considering what this process is supposed to bring. Improvement of app stability. Faster feature delivery. Increase of team work efficiency. Support in testing the app in …
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When a product requirement is not worth implementing
Monday, August 23, 2021 in Engineering
Photo by [Levi Meir Clancy](https://unsplash.com/@levimeirclancy?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText) on [Unsplash](https://unsplash.com/@levimeirclancy?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText) Life is full of compromises. So is software development. Decisions about features and the related requirements are based on the amount of time and money necessary to deliver good user experience. When designing software, a team doesn’t always have …
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Coastline paradox
Wednesday, May 26, 2021 in Engineering
Photo by [Max Böttinger](https://unsplash.com/@maxboettinger?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText) on [Unsplash](https://unsplash.com/?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText) The coastline paradox was first observed by Lewis Fry Richardson and later expanded upon by Benoit Mandelbrot in Science Magazine in 1967. It shows that measuring the coastline length is not as straightforward as it might seem. Image shows coastline …
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Errors... oh... those errors
Monday, February 05, 2018 in Engineering
Image from [unsplash](https://unsplash.com/) Product owner focuses on happy path, ignoring issues like missing Internet connection. UI/UX designers focus on product owner satisfaction UI/UX designers don’t have good technical knowledge. Developers have thousands of tasks to fulfill, and …
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Working with git submodules (very old article)
Wednesday, June 20, 2012 in Engineering
Note: This article is very, very old. I’m publishing it mostly for fun :) Introduction Working with submodules looks tricki at the beginning but it is an elegant way to share your project code and DRY (Don’t Repeat Yourself). We started …
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Working with gerrit (very old article)
Wednesday, May 02, 2012 in Engineering
Photo by [Raychan](https://unsplash.com/@wx1993?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText) on [Unsplash](https://unsplash.com/s/photos/tree?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText) Note: This article is very, very old. I’m publishing it mostly for fun :) Before start: in later of this document I assume that you have a basics of git knowledge. In our development team we use git a lot, but git not solve every problem - …