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Software engineering is about far more than writing code. In this category, I write about software architecture, testing, debugging, maintainability, scalability, code quality, and the practices that help engineers build reliable systems in the real world.
Great software is not just functional. It is understandable, resilient, and adaptable over time. If you want to learn how experienced developers think about complexity, production systems, and long-term maintainability, this category should be useful.
Browse the articles below to explore software engineering beyond the basics.
Microservices decompose an application into independently deployable services. Done correctly at the right scale, they allow large teams to ship independently and systems to scale components …
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Google stores virtually all of its code in a single version-controlled repository containing over 2 billion lines of code across 9 million source files. The repository is not a chaotic dump. It is …
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Writing more code does not make a system better. Poorly designed systems become harder to change with every line added. A senior engineer who spends a week on architecture decisions before writing a …
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