Off Script is back! This episode, James and Josh discuss engineering culture and some of the best practices and processes they’ve implemented for reliable development cycles. What’s the release process? How do you monitor the application and ensure robust code quality? How do Infrastructure and security considerations affect the development? All covered in this episode!

• 02 Release process - Continuous integration
• 03 Feature flagging
• 05 Versioning
• 07 Application Monitoring & alerting
• 09 Flare error message mishap
• 10 Centralised Dashboards
• 11 Shipping a better product
• 11 Tips for a new hire
• 12 Linting
• 13 Versioning
• 15 Testing
• 17 Reduce the feedback loop
• 20 Architecture review
• 22 Programming patterns
• 25 Infrastructure
• 26 Tooling setup and access (Consul, Vault, etc)
• 28 Infrastructure as code
• 30 Data residency and regional deployments
• 32 Security
• 33 Secret storage and environment specific configuration
• 34 Regulatory compliance (e.g. ISO 27001, GCloud expectations
• 35 Dependency review
• 36 External security review
• 37 On-boarding/off-boarding Documentation
• 38 OpenAPI documents
• 40 Slack
• 44 Communication is key

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