annnoo

Hello everybody, About 4 months ago I got the opportunity to become the so called team lead of our dev team… and this is something I really underestimated :D

Previously I was (and still am in the team) a full stack developer with strengths on the technical side as well as very good problem understanding and solving skills.

After the previous months I more and More understood that in my role I have to manage a team, talk more with stakeholders and getting more involved into “politics”, which is not something I’ve did previously very much.

I know that I have to improve my communication skills, getting better in understanding how I can protect my team and how to lead my team to get out of disruptions or things that are impacting our team, but sometimes I feel a bit overwhelmed. It is definitely a challenge, but one that I want to grow on.

Thereby I am asking: Has someone of you being in a similar position and what helped you to become the team lead that you wanted to have? Were there useful resources, books, programs that taught you valuable skills for this kind of role?

Thank you :)

Hello everybody,

Currently we are storing our yml-API definition inside of an git repository. Any build which depends on these definitions (e.g. webapp and server) will download the source and genereates the specific necessary code.

I asked myself if there could be a better way of distributing these definitions using our internal GitLab CI/CD and package repositories, but I am not sure if this idea would be some kind of an antipattern.

My idea is that we could use the GitLab CI/CD to trigger automatic builds/code generations after each change for the different necessary modules. The generated code could be automatically pushed into different package repositories (our internal maven or internal npm package repository). The applications could then just import the generated code by using the pushed modules as dependencies.

For me this approach seems good on paper, but as I said before: I am not sure if this is the best way to deal with OpenAPI generated code. I researched a little bit (google and colleagues), but was not able to find a good answer. Maybe someone here could help me figuring out if this approach is a good way to handle it. Thanks :)