Software the Hard way

Tech debt can’t be solved as a roadmap item. It needs to be part of your daily routine

Moneyball for Software Teams – An Imperfect Heuristic for Quantifying Dev Performance

Product-Engineering Collaboration – Getting Past Waterfall

18 Years A Transient – My Journey Through the American Immigration System as a Computer Engineer

Our Engineering Principles and Best Practices

My Path to Financial Independence as a Software Engineer

The Law of Net Design Costs

Experiences working with an Outsourced Dev Shop

Mutation Driven Testing – When TDD Just Isn’t Good Enough

Why Is There So Much Crap Software In The World

If Founders Treated Their Investors The Same Way They Treated Their Employees

Preventing Software Rot

Bayes vs Frequentists – An Empirical Test In Code

When Feature Flags Do And Don’t Make Sense

The Birth of Legacy Software – How Change Aversion Feeds On Itself

Abstractions Are In The Eye Of The Beholder

Nuances of Overloading and Overriding in Java

Alert Fast

Hiring is Broken And Yours Is Too

SSH Considered Harmful – Why You Should Be Using Persistent Sessions

Cracking the Senior Software Interview

Rethinking Software Testing: Perspectives from the world of Hardware

An Alternative to Dependency Injection Frameworks

Myths Programmers Believe about CPU Caches

Don’t be an Evolutionary Programmer

Building a WebApp from A-Z: The Caucus Tech Stack

From Hello-World to Web-Launch in 2 Years