2024

26 Apr, 2024
26 Apr, 2024
Testing Without the Tears: How Mocking Boundaries Can Strengthen Your Tests
Writing robust tests is a crucial line of defense for building high-quality software. However, external dependencies like databases, file systems, and even time itself can transform the testing process into a battlefield. They introduce complexity, s...


Published: Feb 14, 2024
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26 Apr, 2024
26 Apr, 2024
The Software Testing Tightrope: Balancing Quality and Efficiency
While writing tests might not always feel exciting, they're crucial for building stable and maintainable software. Think of it like building a skyscraper – you wouldn't skimp on the foundation, would you? Similarly, testing your code guarantees its s...


Published: Feb 15, 2024
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26 Apr, 2024
26 Apr, 2024
Building Software that Thrives: 4 Principles for Engineering Excellence
Software engineering is a continuous process of navigating complexity, embracing change, and making (often) messy trade-offs. These challenges create technical debt: the gap between where your software stands today and its ideal potential. This debt ...


Published: Feb 15, 2024
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26 Apr, 2024
26 Apr, 2024
The Art of Deliberate Communication: Building Bridges and Delivering Software Excellence
Forget the days of being a lone coder in your dark basement (or maybe brightly lit kitchen these days). The real magic in software engineering isn't hidden in fancy algorithms or lines of code. It's something much more human: communication. Think abo...


Published: Feb 16, 2024
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26 Apr, 2024
26 Apr, 2024
Hyrum's Law: A Subtle Threat in Software Engineering
Hyrum's Law, named after Hyrum Wright, a software engineer at Google, states that "with a sufficient number of users of an API, it does not matter what you promise in the contract: all observable behaviors of your system will be depended on by somebo...


Published: Feb 18, 2024
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26 Apr, 2024
26 Apr, 2024
The Anti-Assumption Mindset: Embracing Intellectual Humility in Software Engineering
Have you ever launched a feature with confidence, only to find it leaving users scratching their heads? It's a scenario familiar to many software engineers, regardless of experience. Often, the culprit resides in the shadows: assumptions. These unspo...


Published: Feb 21, 2024
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26 Apr, 2024
26 Apr, 2024
Bounded Contexts: Taming Complexity in Software Development
Building complex software systems often involves managing diverse concepts and ensuring clear communication between different stakeholders. Imagine working on a project where different teams use the same terms for entirely different things. In one re...


Published: Feb 25, 2024
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26 Apr, 2024
26 Apr, 2024
From Stuck to Inspired: Books That Shaped My Software Engineering Career
Early in my software engineering career, I hit a wall. The initial excitement was giving way to a stifling sense of being stuck. My code functioned, but it lacked elegance, and I wanted to push my skills further. Every debugging session felt like slo...


Published: Mar 11, 2024
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26 Apr, 2024
26 Apr, 2024
How to Improve Code Readability and Maintainability with Action-Oriented Naming
Imagine you're handed a complicated piece of machinery and told to fix it... but there's no manual in sight. Sounds impossible, right? That's essentially what we face when we dive into poorly named and documented code. But what if there was a better ...


Published: Mar 30, 2024
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26 Apr, 2024
26 Apr, 2024
Unveiling the Truth about "Fast" Software Development: Why a Deliberate Approach Wins the Race
Consider a group of enthusiastic hikers who, in their eagerness to reach the apex, ignore the weather forecast, disregard their energy reserves, and sidestep the meticulously marked trail in favor of a shortcut. Not surprisingly, they encounter a tre...


Published: Apr 02, 2024
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26 Apr, 2024
26 Apr, 2024
Build Better Software Faster: A Practical Guide to Project Planning & Execution
Ever feel like you're building software blindfolded? Vague requirements, shifting deadlines, endless scope creep – it's enough to make any software engineer lose their way. But it doesn't have to be this way. Product planning is an inherently intrica...


Published: Apr 09, 2024
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