Software testing strategies are usually described in terms of coverage, and coverage is the least informative number in the whole discipline. A codebase at ninety per cent can ship a bug on its most-used path, because coverage measures which lines executed during a test run, not whether anything meaningful was asserted...
Automation
Articles, guides and tutorials on software automation, covering CI/CD pipelines, test automation and workflow automation for development teams.
Cloudflare Queues solves the problem every serverless application eventually hits: a request arrives that triggers work the user should not have to wait for. Sending the confirmation email, resizing the upload, syncing the record to a third party. On a traditional server you hand that to a background worker process. On...
AI agents for business are the current version of a familiar story: a demo that works beautifully in ten minutes, followed by six months of trying to make it work reliably enough to leave unattended. The gap between those two states is where almost all the budget goes, and almost none of the marketing material...
CRM and ERP integration is almost always described as a connection problem, and it is almost never a connection problem. Both systems have documented interfaces. Both have connectors available. The difficulty is that sales and finance have spent years describing the same business in two different vocabularies, and the...
Third-party API integration is the most consistently underestimated work in commercial software. The documentation reads clearly, the vendor publishes a client library, and someone says two weeks. Six weeks later the team is still arguing about what should happen when a webhook arrives twice for an order that was...
An OpenAI API integration looks trivial in a prototype and turns out to be an engineering project in production. The proof of concept takes an afternoon: install the client library, paste a key, send a prompt, get a useful answer back. Then someone asks what happens when the request times out, who pays when a customer...
Interest in CI/CD automation has grown consistently over the past three years, and search volume for “CI/CD pipeline setup” rose 34% in 2025 alone. Despite that, the majority of UK development agencies still deploy via manual SSH sessions or ad-hoc scripts. That gap represents a significant competitive disadvantage:...
AI code review has moved from experimental to production-standard in 2026. Development teams that once debated whether AI could reliably review code are now debating which tool to use and how deeply to integrate it. The quality of AI-generated code review has improved to the point where, for many categories of finding,...