Promoting Reuse and the Design-First Approach: API Success with SPS Commerce

SPS Commerce maximized a design-first approach and Stoplight Platform to improve the internal developer experience. Their design review process went from being a weeks-long effort to an hour-long effort by creating an effective design review process over multiple iterations. They...

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Is GitHub Dependabot Now Enterprise Ready with Grouped Updates?

Is GitHub Dependabot Now Enterprise Ready with Grouped Updates?

Discovering Dependabot many years ago was one of those moments of incredible excitement. It was not the same kind of excitement as when you finished creating and publishing that new feature to production, or even the same as when you...

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Top 5 Tips I Learned My First Year Speaking at Conferences

Introduction This past year, 2022, was a breakout year for me to engage with opportunities in speaking and presenting to the external software development community through meetups, conferences, and podcasts. I relished every chance that I had to chat and...

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SPS Commerce REST API Standards Now Open Source

SPS Commerce REST API Standards Now Open Source

The SPS Commerce Tech Team has been working tirelessly over the past few years in curating a single set of technology best practices that we call Guardrails. These Guardrails are the culmination of years of experience from our engineering teams in...

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Conf42: SRE 2022

I had the opportunity to speak at the Conf42 SRE 2022 conference in June this year. Definitely one of the more interesting virtual conferences I have participated in. All content is pre-recorded but streamed live at a particular time for...

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EBOOK: The API Roadmap

Excited to see the launch and free availability of The API Roadmap: Secrets to API Strategy Success from Industry Leaders from Stoplight. This book brings together many of the amazing insights and information presented in the API Intersection podcast which...

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SPS Commerce + No Fluff Just Stuff (NFJS)

SPS Commerce + No Fluff Just Stuff (NFJS)

If you have ever gone browsing for some great conferences for software engineers, you likely have come across No Fluff Just Stuff, aka NFJS. NFJS offers a network of conferences and webinar topics, both big and small concentrating on anything...

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Developer Experience & API Style Guides at SPS Commerce

Developer Experience & API Style Guides at SPS Commerce

SPS Commerce is moving fast in adopting an API-First culture and mindset, as we re-envision our API Platform from the ground up. Some amazing work from our internal tech community and engineering teams over the last year. Dive in and...

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SPS Commerce + Azure Pipelines: A CI/CD Journey

SPS Commerce + Azure Pipelines: A CI/CD Journey

SPS Commerce is a "booming" technology and SaaS-based organization to work for. Like any enterprise that has consistently done double-digit growth for the last 20-years (I say that like there are a lot... but not as many as you might...

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Speaking at DevOpsCon New York 2021

Speaking at DevOpsCon New York 2021

Had the fantastic opportunity to join the schedule for DevOpsCon New York this year in 2021! I had originally submitted a ton of CFPs across a majority of similarity-focused conferences in early 2020. It was keenly interesting to see the...

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