Most teams don’t realize this, but their biggest bottleneck isn’t architecture, tech stack, or even legacy code. It’s pull requests. If you read about trunk-based development, you’ll see the same advice repeated everywhere: small changes, frequent merges, fast feedback. Sounds…
Trunk-Based Development sounds simple. No long-lived branches.Frequent merges.Small, incremental changes. Most teams will tell you: “Yeah, we basically do trunk-based development.” In practice, they don’t. What they usually have is a hybrid that keeps the downsides of feature branches —…
Every development team has heard this sentence: “Let’s just push one more quick fix.” It sounds harmless. Responsible, even. Something small broke, a customer is affected, production is slightly off — and the fix is obvious. Five minutes of work.…