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The Philosophy of Error-Aware Design

Why your API is a masochist's teapot and how to fix it.
2 minutes
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Learning System Design Today

Moving beyond interview books.
1 minute
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Through the Reader's Eyes

Two ways to look at your text with fresh eyes.
1 minute
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Alive domain model

How to transform an anemic domain model.
1 minute
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The Two Hard Things

Why naming isn't really one of them.
1 minute
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The Power of Perspective

Don't bend to your will, bend your thinking instead.
1 minute
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The Hamming Question: Answer

What are the most important problems in your field and why aren't you working on them?
2 minutes
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Telegram Instant View

On implementation of "Instant view" button in Telegram.
3 minutes
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Good Take Home Test

How to turn a test task into a candidate's pet project.
2 minutes
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Portable Document Format

In defense of the “Download beautiful PDF” button.
2 minutes
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Popular Languages

How to choose a language wisely.
2 minutes
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Nature of Tech Debt

An advanced tech debt explanation.
3 minutes
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Architecture: Modernity

Key ideas in modern approaches to software architecture.
5 minutes
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Architecture: Informal Definitions

Interpretation of popular but non-standard definitions of architecture.
3 minutes
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Architecture: Standardization

The path towards software architecture standard.
3 minutes
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Architecture: Buildings

How software can be similar to buildings.
3 minutes
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Architecture: Inspiration

Architecture of 1970-s.
2 minutes
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Architecture: Roots

What if you make architecture your hobby?
2 minutes
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Fundamental Questions of IT

Information technology past and future.
2 minutes
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Invincible Bug

An exceptional bug story.
6 minutes
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Lead Programmer Tricks

How to lead projects.
4 minutes
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A Programming Language Endgame

What's the final destination for programming language evolution?
2 minutes
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Bad Identifier

A note about naming.
1 minute
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Go: Error Handling in Functional Style

An alien way of error handling in Go.
1 minute
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OpenAPI Internationalization Status

We don't have a way to add several descriptions to OpenAPI objects, in different languages. We won't have it soon.
1 minute
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Practical Checkstyle Config

Consistent, practical, and nicely structured checkstyle config.
1 minute
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Recommended Pagination for APIs

A guide on pagination design for web APIs.
6 minutes
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Guideline: Error Handling

What a developer must know about error handling.
4 minutes
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Open Source is an Infinitely Scalable Art

Open Source is a fractal.
2 minutes
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Thoughts on Leadership in Software Development

Observations about leaders in software development.
3 minutes
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Classic Documentation Problems and Solutions

A simple list of problems and solutions.
1 minute
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37 Things One Architect Knows

Book review and quotes.
118 minutes
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What is SOAR

The explanation of a hyped technology.
3 minutes
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Securing DevOps: Security in the Cloud

Book review and quotes.
94 minutes
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A Philosophy of Software Design

Book review and quotes.
17 minutes
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Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software

Book review and quotes.
36 minutes
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Guideline: Error Wrapping in Go

Commentary on error wrapping in Go before 1.13 came out.
6 minutes
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Connection pool + distributed lock = deadlock

How to get a deadlock using PostgreSQL advisory lock.
3 minutes
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How to: Structured Logging

How to use structured logging with examples (in Go).
5 minutes
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What is Structured Logging

What to see when you see a log entry.
2 minutes
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SQL Performance Explained

Book review.
3 minutes
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Software Architecture in Practice

Book review and quotes.
76 minutes
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Working with secrets using Ansible

How to nicely encrypt some values in any yaml, keeping the entire file unencrypted.
1 minute
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Developer Hegemony: The Future of Labor

Book review and quotes.
65 minutes
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The Tangled Web: A Guide to Securing Modern Web Applications

Book review and quotes.
50 minutes
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PocketBook Quote Export

A script to export PocketBook quotes + PocketBook database schema.
1 minute
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The beauty of Python type hints

An example of a Python code properly using type hints.
1 minute
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Release it!

Notes on book "Release It!: Design and Deploy Production-Ready Software".
19 minutes