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Workflow

How to Survive the PR Overload from Hacktoberfest

As an open-source project maintainer, Hacktoberfest is a great way to get new contributors and accomplish tasks for your open-source project, but it can also...

Eng. Metrics

How Unbabel Doubled Deployment Frequency With LinearB

When your dev team improves its deployment frequency, it lifts up every other department in your business.

Leadership

The Best Software Engineering Podcasts (2025 Edition)

From Dev Interrupted to The Changelog, we’ve put together a list of the 11 best software engineering podcasts to check out this year.

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Eng. Metrics

What is Cycle Time in Software Development?

In software development, cycle time is the time from first commit to production release. Learn how to measure it and improve it with LinearB.

DevEx

Solving the Next Engineering Challenge: Continuous Merge

What’s the next big challenge for developers? Actually getting code merged. Our solution: continuous merge and the first stand-alone continuous merge...

Eng. Metrics

Using Metrics to Achieve a Good Deployment Frequency

In this post, we’ll cover what deployment frequency is. Once we see it’s importance, we’ll discuss how to improve it.

What Are Scrum Metrics? | 3 Examples

Scrum metrics evaluate if development teams are delivering business value, working effectively, and following scrum best practices. Take a look at 3 scrum...