Karl Balagtey

Co-Founder, GFED

Location

England, UK

GFED, Since

May, 2021

Podcasts

9

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Modern Best Practices: Sounds Good To Me stack (SGTM stack)

Join us in this eye-opening video as we explore the importance of modern best practices in an ever-changing technological landscape. Discover the significant shifts in infrastructure, application development, and UI development. Stay ahead of the curve by embracing these modern tools, reducing risks, and replicating successful project outcomes.

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[FICD] Faster Iterations through Continuous Deployment

Are you tired of slow software development cycles? In this video, we bring you discussions that compares continuous deployments and release deployments exploring methodologies, environments and testing practices. Surely, there are concerns revolving output quality which we will also discuss and evaluate claims while offering solutions towards progress. We hope you could join us as we discuss GitHub flow processes, establishing continuous monitoring culture, understanding rollback procedures, blue-green deployments and leveraging feature flagging and backward compatibility coding. This episode provides a comprehensive overview of their differences, benefits, risks, and important considerations for adoption. Get ready to improve software deployment strategies and deliver value to your customers faster than ever before. Tune in to the Goodfrontend Show now!

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In House Frontend Architects Pt. 2

In this episode, we take a deep dive into the frontend architectural role. We explore the sizes of organisations that would benefit from a frontend architect, analyse the current state of the problem frontend architecture solves, and offer practical advice for brands and retailers struggling to fill the gap. Join us as we discuss how to reduce the delivery risk of composable projects.

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Observability, Monitoring and Logging

🔍📊 Unveiling the Invisible: Navigating Observability in Modern Frontend Architecture 🕵‍♂📈 Join us on a journey into the world of observability, monitoring, and logging in the realm of frontend architecture. In this episode of the Goodfrontend show, your hosts Karl and Kane delve deep into the concept of observability, unpacking its technical intricacies and showcasing its transformative impact on modern web applications. 🔬 Unveiling Observability: Kane introduces observability as the power to peer inside your system's inner workings through external cues. Discover how this holistic understanding empowers you to optimize debugging, enhance user experiences, and streamline issue resolution. 🏠 Home Sweet Home: Analogies abound as observability is likened to placing cameras and sensors in your home, allowing real-time alerts and session replays to keep you in the loop, even when you're away. Learn how this principle applies to observing system health. 👨‍🎓 The School of Observability: Dive into the world of real-time insights as Kane draws parallels between observability and understanding your child's performance in school. Explore the transformative power of observing user behavior in the ever-evolving landscape of frontend architecture. 🔍 Enhancing Application Visibility: Journey through practical examples that empower you to make your applications more observable. From operations and performance monitoring with New Relic and Cloudwatch to user behavior analysis with Contentsquare and Google Analytics, explore the toolkit for optimizing your frontend masterpiece.