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Technical Advisory Workflow

Many technical companies use the services of external technical experts called advisors. I want to describe the best technical advisory workflow beneficial for both sides.

Technical Debt: Deal With It

I think there are no technical teams that do not have a technical debt. Good teams have a limited amount planned for refactoring in the nearest future. Not-so-good teams may have a dept that will take a couple of years to get rid of. Let us see how to live with the second situation and turn it into the first one.

TechnicalYevhen ShyshkinDecember 7, 2022technical, debt, mess, discipline, code, quality, review, business, value, implementation, maintenance, support, architecture, feature, refactoringComment

Background Processing in Applications

Every enterprise-level application uses background processing in some form. It may be a message passing interface implemented as a service bus, direct interaction via web sockets, or something else. We will check the most crucial areas in the background processing developer has to know and take care of.

TechnicalYevhen ShyshkinDecember 2, 2020background, process, application, software, asynchronous, architecture, scaling, performance, best practiceComment

KISS vs SOLID

There is an eternal "holy war" between developers who want the application to be as simple as possible and the ones who want to introduce as much flexibility as possible. The first group votes for the KISS principle, while the second group considers SOLID as a cornerstone. Let us see what all this fuzz is about.

TechnicalYevhen ShyshkinNovember 4, 2020kiss, solid, architecture, simplicity, flexibility, solutionComment

Good From The Beginning

How often did you face a situation when some temporary (and usually quite mediocre) solution became the most used feature? How many projects stuck on the proof-of-concept stage and can not advance because of internal issues? The main reason why it happened is that things were not done correctly from the very beginning. It is what we are going to discuss in this article using a software application project as a test subject.

Business, TechnicalYevhen ShyshkinJune 3, 2020beginning, project, application, quality, iteration, architecture, maintenanceComment

Magic In Code

Every developer faced a situation when he wrote a piece of code that works inexplicably. It is magic! — he says. But why a developer think that this is magic and not a consequence of some internal processes execution? And what should he do with this magic?

TechnicalYevhen ShyshkinNovember 27, 2019magic, code, developer, complexity, environment, best practice, interface, architecture, recommendationComment

On Software Design Patterns

Software Design Patterns are widespread in nowadays development process. Design patterns are in any application, people ask about them on technical interviews, and many books describe them as a silver bullet. However, there are different opinions on this topic — let us see what developers think about design patterns.

TechnicalYevhen ShyshkinOctober 30, 2019software, design, pattern, advantage, drawback, developer, architecture, structure, complexity, inconsistency, recommendation, toolComment

Software Complexity: Developers View

Developers often complain about the complexity of the software they have to develop or support. They mention application architecture, amount of supported code, code complexity, business requirements, and the way customers use an application (user experience). Let us have a look at the most prevalent complaints, underlying issues, and ways to deal with them.