Julien Danjou est un vétéran de l'open source avec 25 ans d'expérience, CEO et co-fondateur de Mergify, et créateur du gestionnaire de fenêtres awesome. Découvrez les insights du plus jeune développeur Debian en 2002, leader du projet de télémétrie OpenStack et créateur de la base de données de séries temporelles Gnocchi. Explorez l'expertise issue des innovations cloud computing chez Red Hat, du développement du profileur Python chez Datadog et de la maîtrise des mécanismes internes de CPython. Apprenez de l'auteur des livres "Serious Python" et "Scaling Python", animateur du podcast français CI/CD "Nom d'un Pipeline!" et fondateur du Toulouse SaaS Club. Suivez pour des insights sur les plateformes SaaS, l'expertise en développement Python, les meilleures pratiques CI/CD, l'optimisation de l'expérience développeur, les contributions GNU Emacs et la programmation Lisp. Accédez aux connaissances sur l'automatisation de fusion de code, la collaboration d'équipes d'ingénierie logicielle et l'architecture cloud computing.
17 articles from this blog
AI won't eliminate junior developers but will challenge senior engineers who haven't evolved beyond just writing code to focus on higher-level design and communication.
A technical founder argues that building the technology is the easy part of a startup; the real challenge is business strategy, distribution, and market focus.
Analysis of GitHub Actions' new pricing model, focusing on the platform costs behind self-hosted runners and the CI ecosystem's reaction.
A European tech founder critiques the region's mindset gap, arguing that its focus on local markets and regulation is causing it to fall behind the US and China in innovation.
The article explores the growing productivity gap between those who integrate AI into their daily workflows and those who don't, comparing it to the early internet adoption divide.
A CEO describes using AI (Claude 4 via Copilot) to code and ship a new autoqueue feature for Mergify in under an hour a day over three weeks.
Analysis of Spotify's AI-generated band and the shift towards AI-native content creation, questioning the future of human creators.
An engineer critiques the misapplication of OKRs in tech teams, arguing for simple, outcome-focused plans over rigid quarterly rituals.
The article argues that AI's non-deterministic nature clashes with traditional computer interfaces, creating a fundamental human-AI interaction problem.
A software engineer reflects on the importance of quality in software development, drawing from open source experience and building Mergify.
Argues that cloud strategy should be a business decision based on growth, not just an engineering cost optimization.
An engineer critiques the poor security practices in many software companies, highlighting willful neglect and developer resistance to basic safeguards.
A critique of French tech's risk-averse culture, arguing that focusing on local compliance over global innovation hinders its competitiveness.
A developer shares lessons from two failed CI/CD products and how they led to creating CI Insights, an observability tool for CI pipelines.
Mergify's CEO shares their hiring philosophy for a startup, focusing on mindset, autonomy, and adaptability over just technical skills.
A tech team's story of pivoting from a CI cost tool to a CI reliability product, only to realize they built great tech but not a viable product.
An article arguing that engineers should not use complexity as an excuse for poor design, emphasizing the importance of creating simple user experiences.
