Longreads from the Rocketship

You may have already encountered MRSK - the latest deployment tool developed by the Basecamp team. In this article, I'll delve into its functionality and highlight the reasons why it's gaining so much popularity.

MRSK stands out for its simplicity and user-friendliness, offering a seamless solution without the need to navigate the intricacies of complex DevOps frameworks. To demonstrate its efficiency, DHH showcases how he deploys an application across two different cloud environments in a mere 20 minutes. This impressive feat illustrates MRSK's capability to streamline the deployment process and swiftly bring your Minimum Viable Product (MVP) to life.

Every business is a collection of partnerships. Businesses rely on partnerships with and between their employees, as well as with other businesses that provide them with goods or services. 

Getting partnerships right is crucial for running a business, and empathy forms the crux of every partnership. Without empathy, partnerships tend to devolve into little more than opportunistic interactions, to lose trust, and to fizzle out completely.

Empathy is crucial for business partnerships because it drives intangible values like:

A recent survey of American employees found a near-unanimous agreement on the value of empathy in the workplace. In particular, 89% said that empathy improves leadership, and 87% said it improves efficiency and creativity.

Running a business is all about building and maintaining good relationships. Inside, a business is made up of employee relationships. And outside, a business consists of client or customer relationships.

Strong client relationships are especially important in a field like software development, because of the complex and lengthy nature of the work. Our clients are the lifeblood of our business.

JetRockets takes building strong client relationships very seriously since it’s such a core part of what we do. We operate on several key practices, including:

Burnout is a real risk for any employee. It is a natural human reaction to a work-life situation that simply doesn’t work anymore. Consequently, leaders should use a wholistic, company-wide approach for mitigating the risk.

Although anyone can experience burnout, some groups do experience it more than others. For example, women experience more burnout than men- 43% of women leaders are burned out, compared with 31% of men at their level. 

This could result from a range of factors: women may face more workplace discrimination, they may have more child rearing responsibilities on top of work, or they may simply be more open about expressing their emotions.

Developers must consider the fact that mobile app users fall into two main groups: iOS users and Android users. Building an app really means building something that works for both systems. There are two ways to do this: