What happens when your legacy gift card platform meets a modern microservices overhaul? Expect chaos, tight deadlines, and a balancing act between stability and innovation. This post dives into the hard-earned lessons of leading two teams through a gradual, messy, and ultimately rewarding transformation—without stopping the business or breaking everything along the way.

It might sound like a rare problem in far-away countries, but COVID-19 lockdowns or extreme weather conditions in the US prove it's a worldwide issue: shit happens, and we need to function and deliver during very daring times. I have some anecdotal experiences from Israel during the last 4 years (as of 2024) when management routines and procedures you so carefully built fall apart due to global/regional scale long-lasting force-majeure events.

Nice util to calculate the best electricity pricing package

Scrum or Kanban - that is the question! Let's compare them, using a real-world case-studies and maybe we can come with even more suitable mix-and-match framework.

Early days Googlers solved a bug in Production by changing the reality rather than changing the code