Refactoring

Our monolith problem WeTransfer, like many other products, started as a small monolithic application and quickly became a big monolithic with too many responsibilities and contributors. It was getting harder to ship new features, and the technical debt was growing. That’s why we started decoupling some core logic into different services. One of…

Niklas Luhmann’s statement that he spent most of his time curating his Zettelkasten¹ should be no surprise to those who have garnered a new hundred notes or more. A Zettelkasten is, after all, an archive comprised of notes taken from reading materials reformatted into our own words. As any writer…

Commenting is boring. Documenting is time-wasting. Test2 is a good name for a class. a_final is a good name for a variable. I don’t need to write tests, that function is not so important. These are just a few lies that may lead to developing poor code. Developing poor code…

By Nicholas Kajoh, Java Engineer, Payments, Adyen — In this article, we share lessons learned from refactoring large swaths of our code so that you can avoid some of the pitfalls involved, and of course reap the benefits of having code that works well and is easy to change. One of the eight principles of the Adyen Formula…

Hello, fellow coders! If you’re looking to refine your skills in writing code, you’ve come to the right place. We’re going to explore the art of writing self-documenting code in Java. Important. Do not miss out the conclusion part. First things first, what exactly is self-documenting code? Think of it…

Refactoring is an important aspect of software development to keep the code relevant over time and improve it’s longevity. Without refactoring, a software tend to rotten and loose it’s descriptively over time. What is refactoring? Refactoring is about “changing the internal structure of software in order to make it easier to understand and…

As software developers and data scientists, we have had whole weeks burnt on codebase maintenance. We’ve had bugs in our codebase that dated back to when we first made our first git project commit. We have come across many challenges that come with maintaining and improving complex codebases. …

This article makes a fundamental analysis of the applications development life-cycle, identifies the main contradiction of software development, and suggests a solution. I started learning programming back in 2006 when my older brother had his informatics class. Back in those days, in an average Ukrainian school, they were learning programming…

As someone who is pretty new to React development, I had a lot to learn. I had some experiences with React in a previous project, but since it was a personal one I did not really think much about following best practices for this framework. However, once I got into…