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Infrastructure documentation goes stale because it is a second thing to maintain. Terraform plus cloud discovery plus a few query tools describes the system better than any diagram, and leaves humans to document only the why behind the odd decisions.
As an author of (open source) packages, I think you have the responsibility to protect the bundle size of your package consumer. When you publish
The Liskov Substitution Principle is one of the five design principles that make for SOLID code, and probably one of the hardest to fully grasp.
At madewithlove, we believe humans matter. Being a well-rounded engineer is not only about processes, quality code, or technical choices. There are no universal
What’s up with Chrome? Recently Google has been in the headlines a lot due to an upcoming change affecting Chrome, but the gist of
We have a really good testing culture at madewithlove and, in one of the projects I am working on, we have a decent suite of
The following post will discuss how you can guide a team to a better way of working. Important side note: this post assumes that the
Engineers love innovation, shiny tools, and creative ways of solving problems. This is a good thing and a bad thing. It’s good because we
During the annual madewithlove retreat in Greece, I gave a talk on what product marketing is and how modern teams should approach building a product.
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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