Posts by Raj Nayak

Scrum Hacks – Team Culture

The underlying theme of this series on Scrum is to provide tips and suggestions to improve the efficiency of your Scrum processes. While many of the suggestions that you’ll see are tangible and  process related, there is a less tangible but equally effective element to Scrum that can definitely improve the overall experience, sprint velocity […]

Microservices at Constant Contact – a view from the trenches Pt. 2

This post is the second of two parts, see part 1 of the post here. Automation and Continuous Deployment (CD) Getting our CD process up and running took some time and effort, but once we did, our productivity improved significantly.  We created a pipeline for each of our microservices so we could deploy them independently.  Each […]

Microservices at Constant Contact – a view from the trenches

Part 1 of a 2 part series. See part 2 here. Microservices are a hot topic of discussion these days.  The tech world is agog with stories of Netflix’s and PayPal’s architecture and how microservices helped them get to where they are today. A few weeks ago, Stefan Piesche wrote an excellent article on “Microservices at […]