Engineering

Blissful unawareness, denial, then acceptance, then resistance. And finally, a pragmatic middle ground. This is the typical journey engineers go through in their relationship with tech debt. It's tempting to get straight to the point: how to remove tech debt, and how to keep it at bay. But that would

Most, if not all, developers are at least somewhat familiar with the concept of caching. After all, this technology is so ubiquitous nowadays, from CPU to browser caching, that all software relies …

How elite software engineers maintain outperformance

Engineers at all levels are encouraged to embrace curiosity, showcasing that asking questions, can pave the way for innovation and deeper understanding. Remember, the right question at the right time can be the catalyst for groundbreaking advancements in technology.

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Why and how we continuously invested the team bandwidth to pay back tech debt and what were the results?

Readability is more objective than you'd think.

Conflict Free Replicated Data types (CRDTs) can be tricky. You may spend months reading papers and implementing different algorithms before they finally click and become simple. That or they'll seem simple out of the gate and you'll be missing a bunch…

This guide shows you how to write, structure, visualize and manage software architecture documentation in a lean way using appropriate documentation tools.

A curated list of software and architecture related design patterns. - DovAmir/awesome-design-patterns: A curated list of software and architecture related design patterns.

Important, Read This First You’re about to read a blog post with a lot of advice. Learning from those who came before us is instrumental to success, but we often forget an important caveat. Almost all advice is contextual, yet it is rarely delivered with any context. “You just need to charge more!” says the company […]

Improve how you architect webapps Patterns.dev is a free book on design patterns and component patterns for building powerful web apps with...

The Problem Writing useful features for your users is key to a successful product.  It makes sense then that you should maximize your time w...

A team of senior software developers from Stratoflow shares 20 useful tips on how to be a good developer. See our checklist!

:wave: - The documentation for being an Artsy Engineer - artsy/README: - The documentation for being an Artsy Engineer

Some tactical and strategic tips for writing effectively as a software developer.

Matthew Childs / Reuters We live in a golden age of software reuse. We’ve never before had such a wealth of freely available code, in so many languages, so easy to find and install. And yet, …

A Big Picture, Thesaurus, and Taxonomy of Modern JavaScript Web Development - dexteryy/spellbook-of-modern-webdev: A Big Picture, Thesaurus, and Taxonomy of Modern JavaScript Web Development

Junior Engineers care about writing Software. They value code quality, employ best practices, try to adopt cutting-edge technologies. They invest a lo

Avoiding problems is faster than solving them

Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it. - Alan Perlis

Documentation for GitLab Community Edition, GitLab Enterprise Edition, Omnibus GitLab, and GitLab Runner.

This was Gusto's system graph. Each of the black rectangles you see here is a subsystem within Gusto's biggest Rails monolith, and the red arrows are where one subsystem talks to another. As our business grew, folks started having a hard time making large changes in our codebase. Initially, we

Things You Should Know About Indexes and Transactions. This post covers internal workings of indexes and transactions of RDBMSs.

Practical CSS and design tips that helps in building future-proof user interfaces.

Engineering notes about system design and software architectures explained by engineers for engineers.

Today I will share some of the software engineering soft skills I have learned from my first 10 years on Google Chrome, where I am a Senior Staff Engineering...

An API is a user interface for a developer. Learn the best practices to make an API that is easy to adopt and pleasant to use.

Real-time thumbnail generation is a surprisingly helpful and complex task to do at scale. We implemented it by using AWS Lambda.