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Development

Whether we're talking discipline, devops, design, testing, or anything else, there's a lot more to producing quality software than banging out semicolons. In these posts we will explore the process techniques and that surround writing code.

Overly Complex SDKs

Overly Complex SDKs

Good SDKs make writing service code easy. Why do so many of them stop just short of where they should?

Disposability

Normalize not knowing where - or to some extent why - your processes are. And never, ever, name a server (sorry saruman37)

Concurrency

Sometimes its okay to be a monolith. Or at least one monolith amongst many.

Boilerplate is just Tech Debt waiting to happen

Boilerplate is just Tech Debt waiting to happen

Our goal as developers should be to write as much business logic as possible, and spend as little time as possible on anything else. Here's why that matters.

Package Based Development

Package Based Development

Thanks a pervasive culture of sharing, almost everything that we write can be thought of as refinements, gluing existing components together and adding only the parts of the code that are truly unique to whatever we're trying to build. It's a great time to be a software developer.

The Benefits of Keeping it Simple

The Benefits of Keeping it Simple

Everything must be made as simple as possible, but no simpler. But why?

Date Handling

Dates are invisible and obvious, until they're not. Luckily a little thought and a few common strategies will keep them as boring as they seem.

Don’t Be Afraid to Cheat

Don’t Be Afraid to Cheat

Its easy to lose sight of the forest for the trees and get so caught up in solving a technical problem that we don't stop to consider how we could take a shortcut and work around it instead.