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Tim Smith

📍 London

Testing Strategy for 2025: Building Safe Systems for an AI-Accelerated Future

As we move deeper into the decade, macro trends like those outlined in The Fourth Turning are reshaping how we build and test software. Millennials—now the dominant force in engineering teams—embrace iterative, error-driven development. They are comfortable experimenting, failing fast, and learning on the fly. This attitude, coupled

360 feedback for Software Engineers using HiBob as an Engineering Manager

Today, we're collecting 360-degree feedback using HiBob, and here's how it went. Feedback must be given in a timely fashion—ideally directly to the individual as soon as issues arise. However, every year we also invite anonymous feedback from two peers within the engineering team, as

Kafka JSON Schema Registry Compatibility Modes

Apache Kafka is a popular distributed streaming platform that has gained immense popularity in recent years due to its scalability, reliability, and ability to handle large amounts of data. One of the key components of Kafka is the Schema Registry, which is used to manage schemas for data stored in

Several years in production with AWS MSK

After deploying AWS MSK to production Dec 2021, has it been worth it? Deploying and supporting AWS MSK (Managed Streaming for Kafka) for a year in production can be a challenging but rewarding experience. AWS MSK is a fully managed service that makes it easy to build and run applications