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Software engineers need knowledge base tools to create and maintain valuable technical documentation. The State of Octoverse 2021 report by GitHub stated: “Documentation is good for productivity and culture. Recent research shows that quality documentation improves performance. It shouldn’t be a surprise that good documentation practices support not only better cultures where developers feel fulfilled...

Our application Promyze is a standard Web application with a ReactJS frontend and a Node/Express/Mongoose/MongoDB stack for our API. We were recently in the reflection of building a public status page for our users to let them know whether our services were up or facing troubles. There are many monitoring tools on the market. In...

The InnerSource Commons is the world’s largest community of InnerSource practitioners. Founded in 2015, its goal is to create and share knowledge about InnerSource (or inner source): the use of open source best practices for software development within the confines of an organization. In a previous post, we discussed InnerSource and its benefits. To get...

Good technical documentation appeared for the first time in the DORA report in 2021, as it’s observed foundational for successfully implementing DevOps capabilities. Technical documentation covers a large diversity of topics, among them: Architectural diagrams, business logic descriptions, … Procedures on how to do a fresh setup for a project on your laptop Coding standards and...

InnerSource is an approach inspired by OpenSource, but applied to the scope of a company only. Many of these companies do not want to see their code revealed publicly for confidentiality reasons for example. Thus, InnerSource offers them the benefits of OpenSource, i.e. collaboration, innovation, and improvement, without opening the doors of their source code...

The IT Industry has one of the highest turnover rates, with an average of around 15% in the past years. We can’t ignore this phenomenon, and even though you invest in increasing the retention of your tech teams, people will sometimes desire a new challenge. A reasonable strategy would be to consider both people’s wellness...