Do You Actually Know If It Works?
The scarce skill now is not writing code but knowing your own system: what you solved, how it works, and whether a new bug is even yours.
Subject · 3 posts
software engineering
Backend Best Practices: The Tricks That Keep a Service Boring
Boring is the highest compliment a backend can earn. The layering, config, jobs, and observability habits that stop the phone call at three in the morning.
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Design Patterns You Actually Use, and the Ones You Should Not Reach For
The pattern books list twenty-three. You reach for about six. Here are those six, the problem each solves, and why naming a pattern is a tool, not a trophy.
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