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January 2024

July 2023

Enrollment is open - Software Engineering from the Frontlines
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April 2023

Release Management
Great software is released software!
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How to scale yourself
One of the clearest signs you have reached seniority at your team/company is that your feedback is always sought after. In fact, it is a prerequisite.
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March 2023

February 2023

A good unit test
A good unit test should be:
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Outage Management
Outage management is a core skill for a software engineer to acquire and is critical to achieve high availability of an online service.
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Coding Tips
There is no magic bullet for clean readable code but these are tips that usually overwhelmingly increase code readability.
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Why Refactor?
If you have ever seen a great chef cooking, you will see a pattern. Every couple of chops, every couple of minutes, the chef cleans up his station. He…
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January 2023

Complexity
Often times, software engineers are faced with the prospect of adding new functionalities or checking in new code that seems to be beneficial but are…
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Layoffs
A sad topic for today: Layoffs.
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