25 Jan 2023 Inheritance, Composition, and everything in–between There are many concepts in the OOP paradigm. Inheritance is the most known, and it allows us to model software as relations between objects, just like in real life.
05 Jan 2023 How to get into programming in 2023 It’s 2023 already, you’ve been a responsible individual and created a new year’s resolution. One of the items in your resolution is a career change to become a software engineer. So how do you start?
22 Dec 2022 The missing ingredients from your monitoring alerts There is one thing engineers hate the most—waking up at night and troubleshooting production incidents. What if I told you I know how to make it less painful?
07 Dec 2022 Cursor based pagination Traditional pagination existed for many years. But it’s not useful for platforms with huge amount of user generated content. Luckily, there is an alternative solution for such systems.
23 Nov 2022 Why you should adopt Makefile in all of your projects GNU Make. A software that is, most likely, older than you. It’s so simple, so standard, and so ignored. I’m here to provide a case in favor of make and Makefiles.
09 Apr 2022 Legacy is where companies go to die Legacy. The one word engineers cringe when they hear. Nobody wants to work with legacy code or legacy systems. And yet someone has to. Can we do something about it?
19 Feb 2022 It's better to be (type)safe than sorry Take a good look at the following function and try to understand what it's doing. function do_magic(a, b) { return a + b; }
26 Jan 2022 The Software Industry is Broken It's that time again. You come to your Toyota dealership to buy a new Toyota Corolla. You've been waiting to upgrade your old, fuel inefficient and slow model, with this year's new model. But the new model is more fuel inefficient! Wait! What?!
27 Nov 2021 How to be a Great Technical Interviewer The path to becoming a great technical interviewer is full of doubts, tough decisions, and self-discovery. But I believe every engineer should try to walk it.
08 Feb 2021 Wrap your gifts not your dependencies We’ve all been there. Its time to introduce a new package / dependency to our code base, be it a HTTP request library, a logger or something else, and the question we ask ourselves “Should I wrap it?”