Published in ITNEXT·Feb 1Member-onlyStress-free software engineeringEngineering can be a fulfilling, well-paid and relaxed job compared to other professions, but in the wrong environment or project, it can cause developers to burn out. I am going to outline 3 things that can disturb your development teams but could be avoided: Late deployments Working overtime Waiting times Late evening deploymentsSoftware Development6 min readSoftware Development6 min read
Published in ITNEXT·Jan 9Member-only.Net 7 JSON Performance trapWe should keep performance in mind when writing code while avoiding making nano optimizations. Sometimes what looks like a frugal optimization makes a massive difference. Today we will see how System.Text.Json has a performance penalty trap. What’s wrong with this code? Every time we run this function, it creates…Software Development2 min readSoftware Development2 min read
Published in ITNEXT·Nov 18, 2022Member-onlyPlease, no Cosmos DB with EntityFramework.I’ve seen projects using Entity Framework to abstract Cosmos DB, trying to simplify developers' lives. Still, the tradeoffs for cost, performance and error probability are strongly in favour of never mixing the two, like coke and mentos. Let’s start by pointing strong points of each of them. Entity Framework What is Entity Framework good at? It provides development…Csharp4 min readCsharp4 min read
Published in ITNEXT·Nov 16, 2022Member-onlyMicroservices or Nanoservices?It’s almost Christmas 2022, and the software development industry has learned many lessons. One of them was that monoliths are evil. But what if instead we went the other extreme and made too many services? This is what we will reflect on. Monoliths disadvantages One big deployment causes deployment delays…Software Development4 min readSoftware Development4 min read
Published in Better Programming·Feb 7, 2022Member-onlyOptimizing an Algorithm to Delete Multiple Keys in JavaScriptFinding, isolating, and solving an algorithm challenge in a real application — A client raised an issue that their batch delete from the Redis cache was too slow. Although initially, I thought Redis was at fault, given it’s not the best to delete thousands of keys, I was wrong. …Programming5 min readProgramming5 min read
Published in ITNEXT·Jan 4, 2022Member-onlyUntaught foundations for software developmentSoftware development principles like programming logic, syntax and database modelling are taught in courses when people are starting their programming careers. However, other principles are not, and they could improve the productivity and happiness of our entire profession as a whole if they were mainstream. Are we drowning in BAU (Business as usual)? Have you seen a team…Software Development5 min readSoftware Development5 min read
Published in ITNEXT·May 3, 2021Member-onlyDebugging browser Web WorkersThis is a short post on debugging web workers. One important aspect of being a software engineer is to quickly isolate the errors between layers (Browser/Backend/Database). On the browser, we are used to the Developer Tools. That tells us what errors happened, allow us to debug javascript or spy on…Development2 min readDevelopment2 min read
Published in ITNEXT·Mar 10, 2021Member-onlyC# GraphQL Hotchocolate + Specflow Acceptance testsIn my previous posts, I’ve shown how GraphQL can speed up development by creating flexible/efficient APIs and fitting into a microservices architecture here. …Programming4 min readProgramming4 min read
Published in RYoshiga Consultancy·Updated Feb 28, 2021Member-onlyThe fourth industrial cloud revolutionAs the industrial revolution dramatically increased the productivity of our societies, enabling us to go to the next level, the Cloud is making software development cheaper, faster and more resilient. Let me show you how: The old world If your company needed a website or systems, we would have to buy our own…Cloud4 min readCloud4 min read
Published in ITNEXT·Jan 2, 2021Member-onlyDeployment maturity levelsAs software engineers, we love to develop features for making our customer lives easier, but until those features are available to end-users, it adds no value to the business. Therefore the deployment process is an essential part of succeeding as a development team. With six years of experience in Continuous…Continuous Delivery8 min readContinuous Delivery8 min read
