Codeal @codealio

Backend builders. We write about how to better design, test, deliver and scale backend services. codeal.io Joined March 2021

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Codeal @codealio

4 years ago

How to break down problems is one of the most powerful skills you learn from experience. Hard to learn from books.

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4 years ago

Is service X working? Ideally you are one click away from answering this question, with numbers, in some sort of dashboard. Sounds simple, but there's a lot of work to get this right.

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4 years ago

Having to use the suffix "Impl" means that the interface is unnecessary. There is no reason to create an interface if there is only one implementation of it

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Micromanagement kills innovation and can quickly make the whole team demotivated. If a company only promotes people that follow orders and demotes the ones that challenge the status quo, micromanagement becomes the cultural pattern of the organization.

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Codeal @codealio

5 years ago

@DaliaShea 😅 true story but a good practice nevertheless. @JamesClear would agree, wouldn't you?

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Codeal @codealio

4 years ago

Every codebase we work with has outdated dependencies. They also become harder to update as time passes. It helps if we have a tool to check every dependency for updates. We teach how to do this in this blog post: codeal.io/updating-depen…

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Codeal @codealio

5 years ago

@iamdevloper Pretty much this

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4 years ago

Really good developers are usually very good at writing. The act of writing makes it easier to understand complex concepts.

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Codeal @codealio

4 years ago

If you don't deploy on Friday afternoons, you have tests waiting to be written.

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Codeal @codealio

5 years ago

Avoid using too much code that works "magically", specially in tests. It makes tests fragile and harder to understand

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5 years ago

Being a senior developer is less about knowing absolutely everything and more about quickly being able to recognize when you don’t know something and learn it - @b0rk