Best Practices
Millions of open-source and commercial software projects use GitHub as their default hosting service, enabling developers from various locations to work together on shared codebases. Let’s look at the numbers: GitHub has recently announced that 100 million developers are now using the platform, making it an integral part of
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A year and a half ago, our startup, Mergify, dove into the exciting yet challenging world of technical recruiting, specifically targeting software engineering talent. As a growing company, we were eager to find bright trainees and apprentices still in school. We believed in hiring individuals with basic algorithm knowledge who
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In February 2023, GitHub released its pull request merge queue feature in public beta. If you have no clue what a merge queue is, you can read about it here or watch our video below. After the announcement, many questions popped up on social media. We built a list of
Best Practices
This article is directly linked to ''Build or Buy Software: the Questions to Ask Yourself''. Indeed, you are not all alone in facing this question, you can use techniques to help you choose the right decision. As you can read in our first article, there are
Technical
At Mergify, we use Docker containers to run our production environments. Containers help developers deliver their code faster and ship their features in a snap, and they are now used substantially in most software-centric organizations. We are no exception. We build our images, run them, and ship them to customers
Basic Knowledge
"I'll do it myself" — you probably heard it and said it a couple of times as well. That is a common reaction when you can not find an existing and fitting solution to your problem. This sentence naturally echoes the saying: "we are never better
Tutorials
Tired of handling merges manually as your team develops? It may be time to automate code merging instead. Merging code in Git can be tedious and time-consuming, leading to missed milestones and more in particularly dire cases. Automation is a great solution, but you'll need to use it
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Developers working on particularly complex projects need to constantly monitor the state of their code and all contributors' code to ensure it remains functional when deployed. Bad code tends to creep in unannounced, and it takes considerable effort to detect issues manually. Enter code coverage and test coverage to
Best Practices
Code review is an integral part of the software development process. It helps ensure that code is efficient, secure, and maintainable. Pull requests in GitHub are an effective way to manage code reviews. But bad pull requests slow down the development cycle and lead to low code quality. Therefore, following
Basic Knowledge
Text processing automates the analysis and sorting of unstructured text data. Machine learning models can use this structured information to generate new text, manipulate the existing text, or get insights from it. In this article, we’re looking at a robust and efficient text-processing approach: Regex. Regex has individual syntax,
Basic Knowledge
The field of software development has undergone numerous changes over the years. These changes have brought about major revolutions in designing applications and writing the code that makes them work. As development teams worldwide have grown increasingly complex, so have the tools they regularly use to synchronize their work. Git
Tutorials
Most programming languages are either statically or dynamically typed. With static typing, developers need to define the type of data used, like in the example below in the C language: int example_function(int number, char *string) From the very first look at this function, you know that it takes