offshore

Code Reviews For offsite offshore and out of timezone developers

We have recently added offshore resources and are having trouble coming up with a successful strategy for core reviews. In the past a developer would grab another developer and walk though there changes while take notes of issues raised. The original developer would then reactor repeat. With our offshore partners we find the process l...

What's the best way to clear the slate with your team

I work largely as an architect, and have developed a pretty big enterprise application based on SOA. Turns out my teamleader has been skilling up the indians behind my back even though I've been spending time and effort preparing a formal handover (to describe the design decisions and why). It just breeds lack of trust and sends the wron...

infrastructure offshore

Hi, i'm working in a startup and we are looking for VCs. the point is that huge part of our infrastructure are offshore (github, gmail and basecamp). So our development team is local, which is great, but we did a choice to offshore our infrastructure, since they are not our core, we don't want to spend tons of money in datacenter and ne...