Nizar was recently interviewed by Emily Bache for Modern Software Engineering (MSE) about Probity, his latest open-source project for enforcing guardrails for autonomous AI codi...
A few months ago I wrote a text called “Dual-use” about how civilian concepts and thinking is being utilised with great success by the militaries. The example was DOT-Chain Defe...
There's a particular kind of pressure that engineering leaders know well. A deadline is approaching, the team is working hard – everyone can see that – and yet the amount of wor...
It just doesn't make any sense! Your software team has been getting slower and slower up to a point where every new feature is painfully forced through the system, wrecking ever...
Earlier in my career, I’d automatically have said something like: being in a weightless state, without time and space, completely zoned in on what I’m doing. Someone even compar...
There are quite a lot of comments flowing around right now that GenAI is an accelerator. Good news if you are in a good situation, since the good will be increased. Bad news if ...
On the 24th of April, 2026, Raniz will give his popular talk "Patterns and Antipatterns – Things your Pipeline Should (Not) Do" at Devoxx Greece in Athens.
In the team I work with, we have a sort of tradition of deploying on Friday afternoons. Why on earth are we doing this? A lot of teams have the opposite tradition to never deplo...
If your company is at the cusp of significant change, today might feel like a crucial turning point between yesterday's struggles and a tomorrow where you will reach your ambiti...
Continuous Integration, sometimes referred to as Trunk Based Development, is a development methodology where everyone integrates their work into the main branch at least daily.
I had a conversation about product development recently, and it really got me thinking. I was asked something along the lines of “If you were the head of development and got a s...
We’ve had the privilege to work with many great development organizations. So, we thought it would be nice to share a few of the insights we’ve gathered over the years on what s...
