Let's make them pay for using our personal data
Unfortunately we are losing the battle for protecting our personal data from being used by 3rd companies. Instead of protecting my data what if they start paying for it?…
First three things you need to setup for a new project
Integration tests This is really important to setup the integration tests as soon as possible. I've seen so many developers which were trying to do it in the middle of project lifecicle Just imaging how many problems they faced at that stage: complex DB scheme, authentication, authorization, billing system and…
Managing the caches
What you should take into consideration when introducing a new cache mechanism for the application…
The theory of broken windows applied to the codebase
Probably you are familiar with the theory of broken window, if not I will give a quick definition of it here: Consider a building with a few broken windows. If the windows are not repaired, the tendency is for vandals to break a few more windows. Eventually, they may even…
Writing good exception message
Every good exception message should consist of three parts…
Understanding metrics: average vs median vs percentiles
Understanding difference between average, mean, P50 and P90 metrics…
Choosing your first programming language
Any way eventually you will become language agnostic professional, so make this journey fun.…
Embrace recursion
To be honest I've never understood recursion. To me it had always been a black box and during my career I was always leaning forward more complex structures over simple recursion approach.…
Cache everything
Rule of thumb for caching should be used to make response from 50ms to 25ms, not from 1 minute to 10 seconds.…