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Team retreat 2018 - Greece: Why madewithlove retreats once a year
“I’ll have another mojito, thanks Andreas”. On that exact moment in my hammock at the beach bar in Kos – a deserted, windy but mostly
The Domain-Driven Design fallacy
Most people get to know Domain-Driven Design through the tactical patterns. Concepts like Value Objects, Entities, Aggregates, Repositories and Event Sourcing are all strongly linked
Does code need to be perfect?
In the past months, I have asked myself a lot why we always strive to write perfect code. Picking up coding again for an internal
How efficient is pair programming? Will it work on your team?
It is quite easy to see pair programming as using double the resources for writing the same piece of code. If wrongly applied, this might
Creating a declarative oscillator component with React hooks.
Most developers are familiar with the concept of imperative and declarative programming. Imperative programming is when you provide the program with the exact steps to
Company benefits in 2019 at madewithlove
Back in 2016, we wrote about our company benefits for the first time. With being honest as one of our fundamental company values and the
Immutability with immer
Why immutability? When working on a React application that needs to handle state, one of the main pitfalls to watch out for is accidental mutations.
What if... you're the only non-tech guy in a tech company
For the record: I started writing this blog post laying next to a nice blue pool. The pool and the rest of the quite amazing
Using Prettier in PHP
What is Prettier? Originally from the Javascript ecosystem, Prettier is a code formatter which means it takes your code and makes it – as its name
Re-evaluating the need for estimates
In an ever-changing industry, it’s important to constantly keep re-evaluating your own methods and processes. Do they still serve the needs of today? Are
How to keep pair programming digestible
Most software engineers are aware of the fact that pair programming can have some huge advantages. It’s one of the most efficient ways to
Kubernetes 101 - explaining the basics while running a Laravel application with Redis and MySQL.
Kubernetes, also known as K8s, seems to be getting quite some attention these days in the container orchestration world. It even got some attention from
The Minimum Viable Product is not so minimum anymore
For the last decade every tech firm and aspiring app developer out there could count on the durability of one crucial structural dynamic in the
Firebase and Redux Saga can be friends
What’s this Firebase thingy? You might have heard about Firebase, a real-time database that stores data as JSON object and was acquired by Google
Refactoring towards testability
When working on a legacy codebase, you often have to make changes in code you don’t fully understand. When this code is not tested,
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