Technical debts are probably one of the greatest frustrations and demotivators for a software development team. They are unavoidable and no matter how hard you try to avoid them it will somehow find a way into the codebase. The problem with technical debt is that oftentimes the business just keeps […]
For most inexperienced software developers, the prime focus is on building things. They don’t put much focus on debugging as they should when the reality is that they’ll be debugging more than building new things. So, when encountered with a bug, they don’t really know how to approach it especially […]
Being a software developer takes a huge toll on your brain. Every day you put your brain to work really hard for hours. As a result, it can lead to mental fatigue if you don’t take care of yourself.
In today’s age of technology, many things can be done through API (application programming interface) calls to services. These services often offer a RESTful (Representational State Transfer) API set that your application can use. For example, there are APIs out there that can provide language understanding from a sentence you […]
In the past few years, microservice architecture has been getting a lot of attention. With the simplicity, scalability, and fault tolerance of microservice architecture, companies are migrating over. Chances of you encountering this software architecture will be high in the future. So, in this post, I want to briefly go […]
Analytics often is forgotten until there is a problem or there is something you want to know about your software product. The problem is that usually, the analytics doesn’t help much because it didn’t have much information. There wasn’t much effort put into it because it was an afterthought.
There is a big misconception of what an early career software developer thinks a software developer does. They tend to think all a software developer does is write code and that’s it. Although software developers do spend a fair amount of time writing code it is not the only thing […]
Whether you love or hate code reviews, you can’t deny that it helps ensure the quality of code is consistent across a project. As a result, code reviews typically raise the code to a much higher standard. However, code reviews only work if it is taken seriously and everyone that […]
With recent events (COVID-19 and stay at home shelter) work from home has become the norm for anyone who can do their job responsibilities at home. While working from home may be nice, it brings a new set of challenges that you might not be used to if you have […]
Building a chatbot is different from building a traditional application. The mindset and considerations when developing a chatbot are not the same. It will take some getting used to because it is so different from a regular application.
