Guides

Running a Technical Discovery

Discovery work is about finding and reducing risk, and technical discovery is no different. Running a technical discovery before software development can help to set your team up for success.

A Guide to Product Discovery

A Guide to Product Discovery

A Balanced Team Approach to Reliability

Learn how to embrace reliability on your team, one step at a time.

Getting Started with Git Rebase --onto for Specific Commits

Learn how to use git rebase onto in your workflow. Our developer guide covers best practices and step-by-step instructions.

FAQ: Pivotal/Tanzu Labs Engineering

This FAQ explains the ‘whys’ behind many Pivotal/Tanzu Labs engineering practices, and provides guidelines for scaling these practices within organizations.

Hiring a Design Contractor or Vendor

This guide is meant to help teams who’d like to bring on a design contractor or vendor and need help interviewing, evaluating, and onboarding a designer once hired.

The Incremental War Against Technical Debt

An analysis of the causes of technical debt, and what we can do about it.

Writing Agile User Stories for Event-Based Systems

A Product Manager’s perspective on how to write technical backend stories, using an action-oriented approach.

Remote Tips: Remote is Exhausting

Remote Tips

Tips for remote and distributed teams

Remote Tips: Building Relationships

Remote Tips: Facilitation

Remote Tips: Physical Space

Remote Tips: Tools and Tips

Basics of REST

Explore the basics of Representational State Transfer (REST) APIs, a software style that provides architectural constraints used for creating web services.

Breaking Down a Monolith into Microservices

Looking to decompose a monolith? This guide provides expert tricks and tips to break down monoliths into microservices.

Modernization with Consumer Driven Contracts

Build the domain language of your application

Best Practices for How to Test Spring Boot Applications

Get familiar with writing tests for Spring Boot applications that are fast, independent, repeatable, self-validating, and timely.

Understanding API-First Development

API-First approach development allows API teams design-driven development, API governance, and agility in incorporating changes.

Choosing the Right Test Double

An introduction to test doubles, the types of test doubles, and when and how to use them

Architectural Decision Records: What were the engineers thinking?

Architectural Decision Records (ADRs) serve as a snapshot into the developer’s past, and grants thoughts and insights about important technical decisions.