The way pull requests are made, closed and merged has been intriguing me for a while. Pull requests have slowly become the standard flow of operations for many teams shipping software products.Today I’ve asked myself: what is the average number of days to merge a pull request per programming language and how different is this average per language? https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/3509093/Charts/chart.html This chart represents...

Automatic comments on your pull requests with our code analysis results is a new feature we have launched after beta tests with users. All our analysis issues can now be pushed automatically to your pull request page so you don’t have to comment yourself. We believe this will be very useful to cut time off your code reviews. Here’s what it looks...

Code review comments on style and best practices make up at least 20% of software development time reviewing code . However, is this the optimal proportion of time to spend towards this area of code review? If you are not currently dedicating the time to code review in general, you should be. This is because code reviews have become an...

For the past few weeks, part of the development team at Codacy has been working on breaking our application into small microservices, following the ideas learned from this book. We seem to have a perfect fit; a big monolithic application, with several sub-components that have a clear bounded context; having been built on top of Akka, we can clearly identify...

Dear Ryan, at Codacy we are all big fans of what you and your team are building. Your latest post inspired us and we also think it’s an important issue. You’re not alone, and we want to help you and the community be more careful with automation. And so as Gimli said: ”and my axe” says Gimli We called it “The Pronoun Checker by Product Hunt”: http://i.imgur.com/FLGEwO9.gifv Essentially,...