Ankit Jain

CEO @ Aviator

The Anatomy of Slow Code Reviews

What causes code reviews to slow down? Here are some of the most common reasons and techniques for speeding things up. Almost every software developer complains about slow code reviews, but sometimes, it can be hard to understand what’s causing them. It could sometimes be because the right owners were not identified, but many times, it could be […]

Ankit Jain

CEO @ Aviator

Ankit Jain

CEO @ Aviator

Joined: March 17, 2023
Articles: 17

Articles about Code Review & Best Practices, Articles on DevOps Insights & Tools, Learn About DORA Metrics, Uncategorized

The Anatomy of Slow Code Reviews

Ankit Jain
September 9, 2024

Articles on Deployment Strategies, Automation Articles, Developer Experience Insights, GitOps Tips and Articles, Posts on CI/CD: Continuous Integration & Deployment

The Irrational Fear of Deployments

The anxiety of deployments is real. Let's take a stab at understanding the human emotions related to deployment and learn best practices to minimize the fear.

Ankit Jain
July 31, 2024

Backstage Articles, Posts on IDP: Internal Developer Portal

How to set up Backstage with GitHub using Typescript & Material UI

In this tutorial, we will explore the hands-on creation of IDP platform using Backstage, leveraging Typescript and Material UI, while customizing the styles.

Ankit Jain
June 9, 2024

Articles About Aviator, Articles on Deployment Strategies, Developer Productivity Tips, Learn About DORA Metrics, Posts on CI/CD: Continuous Integration & Deployment

Release Management – simplify deploys, rollbacks and cherrypicks

Aviator Releases is designed to help teams coordinate releases, deployments, and rollbacks. It integrates with existing CI/CD systems to simplify the release process.

Ankit Jain
June 4, 2024

Articles on Deployment Strategies, Articles on DevOps Insights & Tools, GitOps Tips and Articles

Choosing Canary vs Rollout deployments in Kubernetes

Understand the difference between canary and rollout deployment strategies. Step by step guide explaining how they work locally and configure with Amazon EKS

Ankit Jain
May 12, 2024

Articles about Terraform, Articles on DevOps Insights & Tools, GitOps Tips and Articles

How to configure IAM using Terraform

Learn about benefits of configuring IAM with Terraform, best practices of managing IAM with IaC and how to set IAM governance

Ankit Jain
April 15, 2024

Articles about Code Review & Best Practices, Articles about GitHub, Automation Articles, Content to Help Developer Teams, Uncategorized

Introducing FlexReview Teams and SLO

A customizable framework for managing code review assignments, notifications and response expectations, to improve inter-team collaboration and reviews speed.

Ankit Jain
April 3, 2024

Articles About Aviator, Automation Articles, Developer Experience Insights, Tips and Insights on Git, Tips on Stacked PRs

FlexReview – A flexible code review framework

Introducing FlexReview - an alternative to Codeowners

FlexReview is an alternative to Codeowners. It uses reviewer expert score along with availability, workloads and the complexity of code change to determine the right reviewers.

Ankit Jain
February 27, 2024

Efficient Merging Techniques, Uncategorized

Pre and post-merge tests using a merge queue

One of the key ingredients making developers productive is faster feedback loops. A fast feedback loop allows developers to identify and address issues promptly, leading to higher-quality code and faster release cycles. Pre-merge and Post-merge tests To maintain the good…

Ankit Jain
January 18, 2024

Articles About Aviator, Monorepo Best Practices

Scaling monorepos with MergeQueue and Nx

Today we’re happy to announce that affected targets now supports Nx.

Ankit Jain
January 9, 2024

Articles About Aviator

Introducing Aviator’s engineering efficiency calculator

A calculator that provides a glimpse of the “hidden pockets” of time wasted that typically do not show up in more common engineering productivity metrics.