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Managing Technical Debt: A Startup Founder’s Guide

Managing Technical Debt: A Startup Founder's Guide

Surviving in the startup world means being skillful and fast. During the initial development phase, accruing ‘technical debt’ - shortcuts the job quicker today, but will need fixing in the future – is almost inevitable. This post covers how a startup founder or technical lead can balance technical debt and a clean codebase.
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Making Your Deployments Boring: What’s Good Enough?

Making Your Deployments Boring: What's Good Enough?

Do your product deployments induce a sense of dread? The chances are you’re doing something wrong
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The Effectiveness of Flash Cards for Exam Revision

The Effectiveness of Flash Cards for Exam Revision

The humble flash card has stood the test of time as an effective study tool
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Hack your career with these 6 mental models and ChatGPT

Hack your career with these 6 mental models and ChatGPT

Use these 6 mental models and ChatGPT to hack your career
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5 Approaches To Solve LLM Token Limits

5 Approaches To Solve LLM Token Limits

How to tackle token limits when using large language models (LLM)
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ImageFly: On-The-Fly Image Transformations

ImageFly: On-The-Fly Image Transformations

An Open Source Azure Function using TypeScript for transforming images on-the-fly
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A Simple Docker Tagging Strategy

A Simple Docker Tagging Strategy

An easy Docker tagging approach to use with a trunk-based git branching strategy
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Using The BlurHash Algorithm With A TypeScript Azure Function

Using The BlurHash Algorithm With A TypeScript Azure Function

Using The BlurHash Algorithm With A TypeScript Azure Function
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The Benefits of Using a Feature-Based Branching Strategy

The Benefits of Using a Feature-Based Branching Strategy

Using feature-based branching strategy will help you avoid git hell, this blog post compares it to release branches
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BrowserFocus: Convert Google Analytics Data into a Browser Support Matrix

BrowserFocus: Convert Google Analytics Data into a Browser Support Matrix

Convert Google Analytics into a browser support matrix that is tailored to your users. Save time on development and QA in your product development
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Cloud Adoption Decision-Making: Rehost, Refactor or Rebuild?

Cloud Adoption Decision-Making: Rehost, Refactor or Rebuild?

Are you a cloud candidate? This is a question that should be answered with care
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Case Study: Serverless Research Platform in Azure

Case Study: Serverless Research Platform in Azure

Solving a research platform challenge with a serverless solution in Azure
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Des Holmes provides Technical Leadership and Product Development to grow Startups, SaaS, DevOps and Azure Public Cloud
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Working with Des Holmes: Testimonials

Working with Des Holmes for successful Technical Leadership and Product Development for Startups, SaaS, DevOps and Azure Public Cloud
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Work History

Des Holmes delivering successful Technical Leadership and Product Development for Startups, SaaS, DevOps and Azure Public Cloud
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Skills & Knowledge

Des Holmes Technical Leadership and Product Development. Skills and knowledge for Startups, SaaS, DevOps and Azure Public Cloud
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