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Posts Categorized in Software development

At Redgate, we’re fascinated by software development and how to do it smarter, better and more intelligently. How do we reduce the burden of legacy code and technical debt, for example? How do we use test-driven development to make the code as robust as possible. How do we apply UX principles and skills to make the complicated software we develop intuitive to use?

Elizabeth Ayer

10 August 2015

Elizabeth Ayer

10 August 2015

The why (and more importantly the how) of automated database deployment

Reliability, traceability, speed: these are the top three motivators for automating the deployment of database changes. Especially when it comes to production, there is no compromising on the level of scrutiny that may just prevent something disastrous happening in production. This need for quality has a strange effect. We talked recently to 30 teams at various stages... Read more

automated deployment

Database DevOps

Amy Burrows

22 July 2015

Amy Burrows

22 July 2015

The key to avoiding database version control problems

It’s a familiar story. Two developers are working on a database, they’re using version control, and there’s a problem. The bigger problem is, they don’t even know they have a problem. As far as they’re concerned, they’re doing everything right. They’ve been using version control, so they can deploy the database changes they’ve been... Read more

Object locking

SQL Source Control

Chris Smith

26 March 2015

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Chris Smith

26 March 2015

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The 5 big benefits of automated deployment

“Every software development team should have a fully automated deployment process.” That’s according to pretty much everyone I meet at conferences and events. It’s not even a debate. It’s a declaration. In actual fact there are only a small number of software development teams who have a ‘one-click’, totally hands-off approach. In Redgate’s latest... Read more

automated deployment

Alastair Smith

2 February 2015

Alastair Smith

2 February 2015

Desire Lines in software architecture: what can we learn from landscape architecture?

Before Christmas I was talking with Simon about an architectural approach we’d taken on a recent project. The aim of the project is to replace an existing WinForms user interface with a shiny new HTML and JavaScript version. Part of this involves making HTTP requests back to the “engine” of the product, a .NET... Read more

Agile development

minimum viable product

desire lines