A programmer is not someone who types super fast (yes, you have been fooled by movies and TV series). Programming is about problem-solving. Most of the time, a programmer is thinking about the problem and how to solve it. Problem-solving…
A few weeks ago I sent an e-mail to my subscribers and ended it asking the following question: What’s your motivation for coding? What do you want to learn? I had many incredible replies and took my time going through…
The most common measure used to tell the level of seniority of a developer is years of experience. I couldn’t disagree more. If you are working on the same project, with the same technologies for the last 6 years, chances…
The learning process is something that intrigues me for a long time now. Are we learning properly? Does it have to take so long to learn a new skill from the ground up? The inspiration for this post came from…
"Build it and they will come". A common phrase in the start-up world. Well, if you have been in this industry long enough, you know that is not quite the case. I prefer to go with the opposite: find the…
There is this weird syndrome some people seem to have that I call TSTC: Too Scared To Code. This condition can come in various forms. It makes you avoid coding in any way, you doubt you will be able to…
What is a Monolith? A Monolithic system is designed to produce one, self-contained, deliverable. This deliverable will then be deployed in a whole bunch of different environments to be tested, validated, and finally, go to production and serve its users.…