You may have heard that Nubank has acqui-hired Plataformatec. Plataformatec has been working with Nubank over the past few months and Nubank saw great value on the practices and expertise shown by our teams. According to Nubank leaders, Plataformatec consultants have provided restructured rituals and new working agreements to its teams, and also brought improvements … »
There is no arguing about how important tests are for our application. But from time to time, when we are dealing with it, some questions came up on a daily basis. A very common day-do-day case is our application relying on APIs and external libs, but one of the things we don’t want our test … »
Depois do sucesso do livro Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs de John Doerr, praticamente toda organização vem buscando utilizar OKR como forma de desdobrar seus objetivos e medir os avanços dos resultados. Assim como qualquer modelo, framework ou ferramenta, existe uma tendência natural das pessoas acreditarem que o artefato … »
Frequently I hear speculations about story points and their relation with the development time. Questions like: “Why a 3 points card took so much time to be developed” “How long it takes to deliver an 8 points card?”, “Why the team took so long to deliver only this amount of points?” and others are frequent. However, when … »
One of the reasons to use any kind of project management methodology is to reduce costs. A delay in a single week of a project creates two different cost types: The first is the cost of the team, since they will need to work another week. The second is the Cost of Delay, which is … »
If you look at the features listed by Kubernetes (K8s) and compare it to languages that run on the Erlang VM, such as Erlang and Elixir, the impression is that they share many keywords. This sharing often leads to confusion. Do they provide distinct behaviors? Do they overlap? For instance, is there any purpose to Elixir’s fault tolerance if Kubernetes also provides self-healing?
