Code Quality

Articles, guides and tutorials on code quality, covering review practices, static analysis, testing and maintaining clean, maintainable codebases.

Postmortems That Actually Change Something

Why most incident reviews produce action items nobody completes, what a useful timeline contains, and how to make the follow-up actually happen.

Why documentation goes stale, the four documents actually worth maintaining, and how to write for somebody who is tired and in a hurry.

Why new developers take months to become useful, what to fix first, and the single metric that tells you whether your onboarding actually works.

When an API change is genuinely breaking, why URL versions are not the only option, and how to retire an old version without losing clients.

What an acquirer or investor examines in your codebase, which findings reduce the price, and how to prepare without rewriting anything.

Most slow applications are one or two bad queries away from being fast. How to find them, read the query plan, and fix the cause not the symptom.

Why high coverage still ships bugs, which tests earn their maintenance cost, and how to build a suite a team trusts enough to deploy on a Friday.

The software development life cycle explained for 2026: every SDLC phase, Agile vs Waterfall, and how a good process controls cost and risk.

The web development best practices that matter in 2026: performance, accessibility, security, SEO and maintainability, with practical guidance.

What technical debt is, how to measure it, and the strategies UK engineering teams use to pay it down without stopping feature delivery.