Identity management doesn’t seem like an engaging topic. What can be interesting in the sign-up and sign-in flow? You see a simple page that asks you to provide the credentials in order to get access to your profile. Many web applications have that flow as an essential part of the product. You want to give […]
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Usually, every digital business starts as a startup with one or two people who write code. They have to build features fast, compromising on code quality and engineering standards. At that point, time to market is the main metric. The insights from the customers are more valuable than the name of the variable in the
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The concept of background tasks is well-known in software engineering. They are used when there is an action that takes time to complete. The classic example would be sending your customer an email after a successful online purchase. If we do it straight away, it will block the user interface, and the customer will have
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You were building a highly requested feature recently. And now you completed it. The last pull request merged, there was no further change request, and all stakeholders were happy. Now what? As a developer, you want to make sure everything works as expected. You want to have instruments to see the performance of the feature
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The topic of design patterns is covered well enough. There are plenty of good resources for it: starting from the famous book “Design Patterns” by the Gang of Four and finishing with various online resources. Design patterns are an essential topic for students in the software engineering course. Understanding and effectively applying them can make the
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As a software engineer, I write code daily with Python or Ruby. In the past, it was Java, C# and C++. And this is how the majority of software developers spend their professional days. With expanding the seniority of the engineers the area of responsibility also grows. It involves efficient communication with the stakeholders, cross-team
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How often did you hear from the software engineers, “Ah, it’s a flaky test, just ignore it”? Probably each of us has experienced or even said that. Flaky tests are annoying. Your feature is complete, the colleagues helped with the code review, and you are just a step behind hitting the Merge button. But that
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Cybersecurity remains a hot topic nowadays. More data is being collected and more solutions are being digitalized. Technologies make our lives simpler, and at the same time, vulnerable to different hacker attacks. As any system gets more complex, protecting its data also becomes challenging. Having a data leak is a nightmare for any business. That’s
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Python got famous as a programming language in the recent decade. It is an excellent instrument assisting not only in backend development but also in data science and automation. The simplicity of the language allows anybody to start learning it. Python has a straightforward syntax and that helps a lot in building software. However, there
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