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Nowadays, there are plenty of software development methodologies. These range from extreme programming and lean software development to constructionist design and Agile Unified Process. All these development methods have their set of advantages and disadvantages. However, two of the most popular among software developers are trunk-based development and Gitflow. They
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We are pleased to announce the release of a new condition for our Merge Queue and merge automation, the Merge-After condition. Schedule Condition Limits While creating a general rule based on schedule condition was possible, it did not allow you to manage pull requests individually. - name: merge on working
Many companies have invested in their software departments and, therefore, their teams of developers. At the same time, development practices have changed, and the SDLC has also evolved with the adoption of CI/CD. The growth of development teams and their productivity brings some issues. Indeed, in the context of
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This article is the following the first one ''I lost 15% of my engineering team. How to make more with less? Tools to maintain your productivity''. As you noticed in the title, we already talked about tooling before and how it could be important to companies.
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At the core of every new integration lies the needs of our clients; in this instance, they requested the integration of Mergify into Datadog. This may seem unusual at first, but there is a valid reason behind it. To effectively monitor and manage developer teams, it is crucial to have
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With the economic situation, many companies, such as Meta, Amazon, and Twitter, are shifting, modifying strategies, taking actions and cutting costs. They must act fast and strong as they feel the cost variation triggered by inflation. As investors require companies to be profitable, big lays-off worldwide are being triggered. Facing
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In a world where remote work is becoming increasingly popular, we at Mergify stand out as a prime example of a company that fully embraces the remote-first philosophy. Founded in 2018, before the COVID-19 pandemic, our roots are deeply ingrained in the world of open source and remote collaboration. In
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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
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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