Some time ago, I attended a course and became a certified Scrum Master. It wasn’t a huge deal. I was already doing the job. But as time went on and I gained more experience, my view of agile frameworks began to change. I started applying slimmer, simpler approaches, and the more I reflected on the frameworks themselves, the more I […]
I get along with people. I talk, I joke, I do the normal office stuff. But even with that, something about how work actually works has always felt off. You think the job is mostly about building things, fixing things, or shipping things. Then you realise a stupid amount of your success depends on this invisible social layer. It’s not […]
When we design services for high availability, we often deploy more than one instance of the same application. It might be two servers behind a load balancer or a few nodes sharing the same workload. This setup is great for redundancy and performance, but it introduces a simple question: how can we make sure that only one instance executes a […]
We live in a time when every month brings a new framework, library, or architectural pattern that promises to change everything. Increasingly often, we come across a new technology, a new trend, and most possibly, a new hype. And we, developers, somehow lose sight of the goal we want to achieve and, sadly, embrace the hype instead. It starts innocently. […]
Every programming language has its oddities and challenges. When it comes to JavaScript, it has Every programming language has its oddities and challenges. When it comes to JavaScript, it has probably more of those oddities. It’s not the just language itself but also browser support and the long tail of old decisions. Different vendors implemented slightly different JavaScript engines for years […]