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Trunk Based Development (TBD) is the backbone of modern Continuous Delivery. It keeps your software always releasable, reduces merge pain, and makes your development process faster and safer.

If you want to go deeper, our free How-To Guide on Trunk Based Development walks you through the full approach, including behavioural branching techniques like Dark Launching, Branch by Abstraction, and Feature Flags.

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Vibe coding is the new cargo cult, and nobody wants to admit it.

More developers are “coding by vibes”… No clear design. No tests. No boundaries.

You ship a ball of mud that future-you (or your team) has to unravel for weeks. Here’s the uncomfortable bit: Most developers who say they’re “moving fast” are actually just pushing complexity forward for someone else to pay for.

So let’s talk about it. When does “vibe coding” actually help you move quickly, and when is it just chaos disguised as creativity?

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Mentorship is an important part of learning anything to a strong, professional standard. Having good mentors can make or break your progression, particularly in a discipline as complex as ours in the software industry.

On the Modern Software Engineering YouTube channel, we host an array of world leading experts that provide advice on building better software, faster, while also encouraging a better way to work for job satisfaction. And... happiness.

We ran a version of this recently, and it was more popular than we thought it would be. So we have reloaded our 'Try-Today-Tips' from MSE experts.

One actionable piece of advice.

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It's clear that this has become a great resource for our email subscribers, so start your 30 days via this link ➡️ www.subscribepage.com/30_day_tips

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For any of the hardcore fans of the YouTube channel... this might be of interest to you 👇

Tom Farley is the content strategist behind the channel, and Dave's son! In this video, he is giving away some of the lore behind the channel, and some of the strategy behind what makes the channel work as well as it does.

So be sure to check it out, should you find this stuff interesting!

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The Software Supply Chain Problem NO ONE Talks About | Daniel Terhorst-North 📅 TONIGHT @ 7PM (UK)

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Please join us in celebrating the newest presenter to join us on the Modern Software Engineering channel... Daniel Terhorst-North! 🎉

Dan is a technology and organizational change specialist who has been coaching, coding and consulting for over 30 years. He is also the originator of BDD... a popular topic on the YouTube channel.

Dan will be hosting his first video on the channel THIS WEDNESDAY. So be sure you're subscribed with notifications turned on so that you don't miss it!

Welcome, Dan. Thanks for joining the team 😎

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This Company Tripled Developer Speed (By Adopting THIS Practice) | Dave Farley 📅 TONIGHT @ 7PM (UK)

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The AWS Outage Uncovered Something EVERY Developer Should Know | Sam Newman 📅 TONIGHT AT 7PM (UK)

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