Cloud Engineering

November’s C3 Challenge took us deep into the Upside Down as Sally faced the Great Pumpkin Hoax. A month of strategy, curiosity, and community, wrapped in our final recap of 2025.

A playful look at what puppies, rats, and software teams can teach us about collaboration. Being the smartest isn’t the goal - building trust and keeping the team “in play” is.

At Ingage Partners, we bring developers together each month for C3: Code, Craft, Community: a meetup focused on learning, collaboration, and growth. August’s challenge, Packet Inspector 9000, pushed participants to explore new languages, testing styles, and performance strategies while tackling a playful coding kata. More than the code itself, the real takeaway was the creativity, shared learning, and community built along the way.

Being a good steward of a codebase means more than just writing functional code, it’s about contributing in a way that respects the team and the work that came before you. In this blog, we share three practical tips: assimilate the existing style to keep the codebase consistent and readable; communicate before making changes to avoid unnecessary risk or confusion; and lead with compassion when working with legacy code, recognizing that every line was written under different circumstances.

At July’s C3: Code, Craft, Community meetup, we focused on designing for testability. Using a real-world scheduling problem, developers practiced Test Driven Development, pure functions, and the Single Responsibility Principle to break down complexity and write cleaner, more testable code.

C3: Code, Craft, Community, a monthly meetup we host that brings together developers from all levels and backgrounds to sharpen their skills, pair program, and explore the deeper questions behind great software development. We don’t just talk about learning. We practice it, publicly and together.