Edit: Folks, this article is written in a sarcastic way. All of the advice below of course lists red flags of code review processes. There are already lots of Best-Practice articles about the topic. Please use this one to check if you match any of the items and fix yourself. …

Halloween is coming. Of course, the main concept is fear nowadays. And I, as a Software Engineer, have a couple of scary sentences. Deadlines, bugs, performance failures, memory leaks, network problems, DNS problems, my god DNS problems, “yeah we can’t rollback because the DB is already being manipulated” errors, “Oh…

If you haven’t looked yet please take a look at the 5 Testing Tips in Go post. I will try to list more testing functions and concepts here. Test Caches Go creates and uses caching for build ing and test ing. If nothing has changed in your program Go does not wait…

Pride — We’re already behind X, it is not possible to attack this application. It’s great to have trust boundaries. It’s great to be inside a trusted network or being behind a well configured security device. It’s one of the core elements of Secure By Design. But it’s never enough…

Before saying anything about tests in Go, I must say that, there are already some great posts on the internet about testing in Go, written earlier. In this blog post I just aim to share own experiences with a bit repeating what have written before and also a listing some…

As human beings, we tend to repeat things that have made us successful in the past. We think we’ll get similar results when we remake those things that activate our brain’s reward zone. …

Stoicism is an ancient philosophy that looks for happiness and fulfillment in the life for every human being. Often mentioned with the philosopher-emperor Marcus Aurelius and his diary Meditations. I am writing this blog post with a write-to-learn approach, and extract some applicable habits for a software developer. …

One of the hardest things in Software Development is diving deep in a subject that you’re not much familiar with. It can be something, that is not on your speciality or can be some code that you’ve not digged before, or you may not know the patterns that is used…

Autonomous teams need to roll. To roll, teams must make decisions. To make decisions teams must take risks. If the employees are full of fear, are not independent or afraid to take decisions / can not defend the results, then it is hard to reach success. Managers need to keep…