Awesome Software Engineer

Software Design Principle: Iteration over Perfection

Iterative Mindset Helps You Go Further

Jan 16, 2024 • 

Ray Chong

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Software Design Principle: Encapsulation

Distribute Complexity and Reduce Coupling

Jan 9, 2024 • 

Ray Chong

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December 2023

2023 Wrap-Up for Awesome Software Engineer

Next year is going to be Awesome

Dec 23, 2023 • 

Ray Chong

November 2023

Consistency in Chaos

Why creating a project coding standard is important?

Nov 23, 2023 • 

Ray Chong

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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 • 

Ray Chong

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October 2023

Why is Refactoring Important?

Continuous Refactoring

Oct 24, 2023 • 

Ray Chong

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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 • 

Ray Chong

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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 • 

Ray Chong

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Enhancing API Performance Through Batch Requests

Single Requests and Batch Requests

Oct 2, 2023 • 

Ray Chong

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September 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 • 

Ray Chong

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Exploring Architecture: What Does It Really Mean?

Architecture is not just to solve engineering challenges

Sep 5, 2023 • 

Ray Chong

4

August 2023

Design Space Optimization

Abstraction-driven Design and Simplicity-focused Design

Aug 31, 2023 • 

Ray Chong

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