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September 22nd, 2023

Embracing the Unknown: Interviews with Technical Leads

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My Tech Predictions That Will Change Your Life

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What I Learned from 30 Years of Professional Software Engineering

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November 26th, 2022

The 10-Minute Read to Understanding DevOps Tools – Update for 2023

Update for 2023 Hey everyone, this is by far my most read article, and given the changing landscape of DevOps tools, I thought nearly three years later and heading into 2023 it was worth a refresh! For those of you who read the original article, I have updated it with a few small changes to […]

October 26th, 2022

Five Minutes with htmx – A New Spin on an Old Reliable Architecture

Single Page Application (SPA) architectures have been the rage for a while now. React, Angular, Vue.js, and other JavaScript front-end frameworks are being used widely to build front-ends for the latest enterprise applications. At Solution Street we always pick the correct architectures and tools to best solve the business problem. Over the years we have […]

September 28th, 2022

GitHub Copilot Will Change the Way You Code – or Will It Get You Into Hot Water?

We were recently conducting a technical interview for a React.js role with one of our candidates. We have a special question for folks interviewing for this role that starts with a template project and gives them some tasks to complete the work. While we were watching this candidate work, we were really surprised when their […]

August 29th, 2022

Fitting UX Into the Development Puzzle

As a developer, I’m ashamed to say that for years I really didn’t know what UX (User Experience) was. Sure, I simply defined UX as gathering information from users prior to web page implementation of HTML/CSS and other front end development tasks. I believe this very simplistic view is shared amongst many developers who tend […]

July 27th, 2022

Self Care: Taking Care of Yourself to be a Great Leader

One of the things I have learned over time is that to be a great leader you need to be at your best. To be at your best, you need to take time to take care of yourself. Imagine if you were going into surgery and your doctor was exhausted and stressed out – would […]

June 14th, 2022

20 Years…Is It Really?

On June 21, 2022, it will be 20 years since Solution Street was founded. In many ways it’s very hard to believe that. I suppose we all mark the passage of time with significant events in our lives. When Solution Street had just started in the spring of 2002, there were still the lingering thoughts […]

May 24th, 2022

The Path Up the Pyramid: Unlocking the Product Manager/Tech Lead Relationship

Introduction: When it comes to software construction projects there are several key roles, and relationships between these roles, that can greatly affect the outcome of the project. In this article, we focus on the relationship between the product manager and the technical lead and the impact it has on quality and timely delivery. The product […]

April 26th, 2022

Is the Speed of Software Delivery Diminishing Software Quality?

In the past, the process of releasing software was a big deal with a high cost for mistakes. Before the dawn of the golden age of the internet, most, if not all, software was distributed via physical media. So, what happened if a bug made it through the quality assurance process and into the hands […]

March 19th, 2022

A Podcast Sampler

In March of 2022, I turn 50 years old. In the interest of trying to live as long as I possibly can, for the last few years I’ve done a lot of walking. I typically walk (or jog when the weather is agreeable) first thing in the morning. I’m not a big music person, so […]

February 27th, 2022

The 5-Minute Overview of Conversational User Interfaces

The year was 1979. I was 8 years old and was excited to go to my Dad’s office in Georgetown. He had a little bit of work to do but promised to let me and my brother play Adventure on his work computers for a few hours. At the time, no one I knew owned […]