The Goldilocks strategy: Finding 'Just Right' in Good, Fast, and Cheap
Picture this: it’s a Tuesday afternoon. You are called into a meeting room by your teamlead. He’s conversing with a client about a big new project they want to develop.
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The economics of clean code
“The only way to make the deadline — the only way to go fast — is to keep the code as clean as possible at all times.
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What is a binary tree and why would I ever want to reverse it
You have probably already heard the horror stories of code interviews where they ask you to reverse a binary tree on a whiteboard.
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The simple class
I work in many legacy code bases, and in fact, I’ve made it a big part of my career. I love diving into big monoliths that have grown out of proportion and tidying them up.
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A love letter to legacy projects
Monday morning. Your previous project just wrapped up, and they are going to assign you a brand new one. They even promised you the lead on this project.
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The Integration Operation Segregation Principle
A few weeks ago I attended a DDDBelgium meetup where I was lucky to participate in a refactor workshop lead by Pim and Joop .
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Atomic commits: Telling stories with Git
I always find it amazing to see how different people create pull requests. Some people like to put every file they’ve touched into one big commit.
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Connect microservices with the help of GRPC
Microservices are all the rage these days. Luckily underneath the hype there are some great use cases for them. If you’re splitting up a monolith codebase into smaller specialised chunks, extracting a long running queue to its own system, or even using particular pieces of code in a different programming language.
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The Y2k38 Bug: The biggest news craze of the year 2038
As you might know, I co-organise a PHP meetup called: PHP Antwerp . Some time ago we had one of our talented speakers: Joeri Sebrechts talk about “What every developer should know about time, no excuses“ (If you ever have the chance to see it, I wholly recommend it).
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