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Software Design Principle: Iteration over Perfection

Iterative Mindset Helps You Go Further

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The Path to Microservices: API Gateway Aggregation Pattern

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Software Design Principle: Encapsulation

Distribute Complexity and Reduce Coupling

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2023 Wrap-Up for Awesome Software Engineer

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Consistency in Chaos

Why creating a project coding standard is important?

Nov 23, 2023 •

Software Engineer or Writer?

I didn’t like writing documentation when I was a Junior Engineer. I thought my job was just coding and creating more features. However, as I progressed…

Nov 14, 2023 •

Why is Refactoring Important?

Continuous Refactoring

Oct 24, 2023 •

Optimize API Performance Through Parallelization

Parallelization is useful in such a scenario where a single request from the frontend needs N requests in the backend to compose the data that the…

Oct 17, 2023 •

Serialization vs Parallelization

Serialization Serialization means executing a series of tasks one after the other within a single thread. In other words, these tasks are executed…

Oct 10, 2023 •

Enhancing API Performance Through Batch Requests

Single Requests and Batch Requests

Oct 2, 2023 •

How do you delegate your tasks to others?

Delegation stands as a critical skill that every software engineer should cultivate. I've observed numerous instances where engineers delegate tasks but…

Sep 20, 2023 •

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