GOTO - The Brightest Minds in Tech Small Pull Requests, Big Impact: The Art of Code Reviews • Adrienne Braganza Tacke & Sasa Juric
Jul 18, 2025
Adrienne Braganza Tacke, a Senior Developer Advocate at Viam Robotics, and Saša Juric, a renowned Elixir mentor, dive into code reviews and their transformative power. They discuss how smaller, organized pull requests lead to better feedback and cohesive codebases. The importance of comment classification and collaborative discussions is emphasized, along with the balance between AI assistance and human judgment in code review processes. Together, they explore the future of reviews in the evolving tech landscape, stressing the need for effective communication and knowledge transfer.
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Key Benefits of Code Reviews
- Code reviews improve applications and elevate team understanding through knowledge transfer.
- They help teams share context and nuances, resulting in better code quality overall.
Code Reviews Foster Collective Ownership
- Without code reviews, teams lack collective ownership and produce overlapping code.
- Developers' coding styles become easily distinguishable, making maintainability harder.
Author Best Practices for PRs
- Authors must create manageable, self-explanatory pull requests to ease reviewers' work.
- Don't take review feedback personally; it's about improving the code, not attacking the author.