TestContainers with Custom Docker Image in JDBC URL

God Classes in Microservices

When we come across God classes, it is likely that we made a mistake in modeling our microservice.

Why Typescript?

Its been a while since I decided to use Angular over React to write our system. Honestly its tough to decide whether to use the comparatively new version of Angular over the hip and the so called thing of the future ReactJS. Apparently I chose Angular.

How PHP is slowly killing itself.?

DISCLAIMER: THIS IS A REPOST FROM MY OLD BLOG

I’m using PHP for almost the entirety of my career. Its my initial weapon in my day-to-day work. I really have no problem with PHP. I’m a big fan of Taylor Otwell’s Laravel. Like most of the people…

Why ending your classes with generic names is a bad idea.

Have you ever come across classes with names like UserService, UserUtil, BookService, and NotificationService? It’s a common practice to use these generic suffixes like Services and Util to name our classes. While it may be…

Tips on Basic Unit Testing

When writing unit tests, I suggest to follow these guidelines to make sure that the test cases have the utmost coverage.

1. Write the test cases first before the implementation component. — This may sound odd but creating the test cases first will help you…

Mental Structure as a Software Engineer

As software engineers what we do is to create solutions for problems, be they simple or complex. I wrote this article as a reminder for myself of these basic principles that in my opinion are helpful when solving problems.