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I hear more and more from people in companies of all sorts, are building internal tools/replacements of SaSS businesses. We built an automated QA agent based on Playwright, that does QA on our own products, literally in…

What are some impressive setups you've seen or you've implemented on locally replicating a microservices architecture with local DBs and other backend dependencies. I'm looking into docker-compose with remote…

What would be the right indexes (or anything else) to evaluate a country's performance over a specific time period? I would like to evaluate my country's (Greece) last government performance and what real effect it had…

Dear HN, I'm a software engineer with several years of experience in web development and generally SaaS products. In all my experience, the agile product development process has been pretty much the same. For example,…

Sometimes I'm being impressed by a very thorough, well structured, always up to date documentation page. Stripes', Slacks' and Jiras' documentation pages are the first three that comes into my mind (I'm sure people will…

After going remote, what are some of the online tools you started using that you weren't using before? For us: - Google Meet for video calls - FunRetro for online retrospectives - Clockwise (Slack App) for letting…

In an organisation with multiple teams where a wider guild/team needs to be closer, what are some sort of ceremonies or processes you do that you think makes you stay connected? Guild meetings? Who's organising those?…

I've been reading about skills/knowledge matrices as a way to gather each individuals' skills and have an overview of your teams' strengths and weaknesses. Are you using one in your team? How exactly?

In an environment with many cross-functional (product) teams with defined mission metrics (per quarter), how would you measure their performance? I want to start suggesting ways of working as best practices (things like…

I've been tasked with coming up with new things to try for keeping the engineering department connected. I'm interested in hearing what are your thoughts on that but also what's your previous experience. It can be a fun…

When you have many background jobs, that take either a few seconds or lots of minutes/hours, how do you monitor them? How do you know when they started and when they finished, their outcome, etc. Do others,…

Quite often I find my self watching others on my team very close, commenting on every PR, trying to have an opinion on every discussion, etc. While I understand I am doing it, at the same time I find it hard to stop my…

A collection of common templates and documents I have been using over the years. I am tired of trying to google them every time I need them, so I just gathered them all here. I would love to hear yours and add them to…