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Long-form articles on AI-augmented engineering, search, and technical leadership. Some come with a podcast, video or infographic.
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- Mar 20, 2026
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Bounded Contexts as Cognitive Boundaries for AI and Humans
Explores how bounded contexts from Domain-Driven Design serve as cognitive boundaries that improve signal-to-noise ratio for both humans and LLMs, making AI-assisted coding more reliable and reducing complexity in modern software development.
- 7 min
After a Year Rebuilding Search, I Had to Rethink Everything
A seasoned engineer's lessons from a year rebuilding a search system from the ground up, shifting from engineering-first to product-first thinking.
- 11 min
The 5 Biases That Can Silently Kill Your LLM Evaluations (And How to Fix Them)
Your LLM-as-a-Judge system might be lying to you. This post uncovers 5 critical biases like positional, verbosity, and moderation bias that silently corrupt your AI evaluations, leading to poor product decisions. Learn practical, actionable fixes to build a resilient evaluation framework you can actually trust.
- 15 min
Augmented Coding, Amplified Risk: Why Type-Safe Python Tests Matter More Than Ever
AI coding assistants are accelerating development—but also magnifying quality risks. Here’s how to write Python tests that survive refactors, scale with your codebase, and tame the chaos of augmented coding.
- 12 min
Why Most Teams Fail at AI Coding (And the Two Strategies That Actually Work)
Most AI coding implementations fail because teams choose the wrong approach for their context. Here's how to pick the strategy that will actually give you a competitive advantage.
- 15 min
Beyond Autocomplete: Why Your Next "Direct Report" Might Be an AI
Exploring the paradigm shift from AI-assisted coding to agentic coding - where AI agents can handle complex, multi-step development tasks with significant autonomy.
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Systems Thinking in Software Engineering: From Overflowing Bathtubs to Sustainable Systems
Stop firefighting software issues and start understanding the underlying system dynamics through Systems Thinking. This post introduces models like the "technical debt bathtub" and key leverage points to improve flow, stability, and team performance. Build better software, faster and more reliably, by focusing on systemic health.
- 10 min
High-Performing Teams Focus On These 4 Areas to Remain Successful
High-performing teams often seem to operate seamlessly, navigating challenges such as tight deadlines or resource limitations while consistently delivering exceptional results. Efficient teams in project-based industries are 2.5 times more likely to meet quality standards and operate with 19% improvement in productivity.
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Separating Decision Gathering from Decision Making
Separating decision gathering from decision making enhances agility by allowing teams to collect diverse input without being slowed by the need for consensus. Empowering individuals to make informed decisions based on collective insights fosters innovation and swift progress in tech environments.
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Understanding Coupling in Software Development
Explores the concept of coupling in software development, its various forms, practical implications, and strategies to balance coupling and decoupling for better system architecture and maintainability.
- 10 min
Event Sourcing Simplified: Mastering Real-World Event Processing in Your Application
A guide to processing real-world events in applications, with practical steps, strategies, and real-world examples. Elevate your system's resilience and adaptability.
- 10 min
Your Comprehensive Guide to Mastering Cloud Architecture: Acing the AWS Solution Architect Associate Exam
Unlock the secrets to mastering cloud computing fundamentals with this comprehensive guide. From understanding key AWS components to hands-on training, the content is designed to refine knowledge and offer critical insights for exam preparation.
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Mastering Virtual Meetings in Remote Work: From Meeting Madness to Productive Paradise
Strategies for optimizing virtual meetings in a remote work environment focus on balancing various types of meetings and personalizing schedules to individual work rhythms.
- 10 min
Mastering Array Access in JavaScript: A Comprehensive Guide
Learn accessing, searching and mutating array elements and gain essential knowledge to master array handling in JavaScript.
- 10 min
5 Advanced ChatGPT Prompt For Software Developers
Get ahead in your career and business by using ChatGPT's advanced prompt techniques, including generating tables, controlling creativity with temperature settings, simulating an expert, creating unique business ideas, and explaining complex concepts in simple language.
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13 Free & Stunning Resources to Master Data Engineering
Become a data-engineer in only one year and learn the basics of Python, SQL, Git, Linux, NoSQL, Big Data with Spark and Hadoop, AWS Cloud, DBT, Airflow and Kafka.
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The Power of Self-Reflection: 5 Habits for Successful Developers
Self-reflection is the most important habit for success. Five habits for self-assessment to help developers continuously grow and succeed.
- 10 min
Java Random Number Generator
In many applications, you need random numbers...
- 10 min
How to Install Java in Ubuntu – JDK Linux Tutorial
Java is one of the most popular programming languages...
- 10 min
What Does K8s Mean?
You might've seen the term k8s in different sources, and wondered what it means. Well, it means Kubernetes.
- 10 min
What is Docker?
Containers are an essential tool for software development today. Running applications in any environment becomes easy when you leverage containers.
- 10 min
Docker Mount Volume – How To Mount a Local Directory
Containers make software engineering easier and more efficient, and Docker containers are popular and easy to use.
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How to Do a Clean Docker Image Rebuild and Clear Docker's Cache
Containers enable you to package your application in a portable way that can run in many environments. The most popular container platform is Docker.
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How to Remove All Docker Images – A Docker Cleanup Guide
Containers are everywhere in today’s tech world. The most popular technology for container management is Docker. It makes using containers easy and helps you easily get applications up and running.
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Text Classification Demystified: An Introduction to Word Embeddings
Word embeddings are used to create neural networks in a more flexible way. They can be built using neural networks that have a certain task, such as prediction of a target word for a given context word.
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The Apache Cassandra Beginner Tutorial
There are lots of data-storage options available today. You have to choose between managed or unmanaged, relational or NoSQL, write- or read-optimized, proprietary or open-source — and it doesn't end there.
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Helm Charts Tutorial: The Kubernetes Package Manager Explained
There are different ways of running production services at a high scale. One popular solution for running containers in production is Kubernetes. But interacting with Kubernetes directly comes with some caveats.
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Kubernetes VS Docker: What's the Difference?
Nowadays, two of the essential tools in a developer's toolbox are Docker and Kubernetes. Both let developers to package applications into containers to run them in different environments.
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Where are Docker Images Stored? Docker Container Paths Explained
Docker has been widely adopted and is used to run and scale applications in production. Additionally, it can be used to start applications quickly by executing a single Docker command.
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Docker Image Guide: Handle Docker Images, Containers, and Volumes
Docker has been widely adopted and is a great vehicle to deploy an application to the cloud (or some other Docker-ready infrastructure). It is also useful for local development. You can start complex applications quickly, develop in isolation, and still have a very good performance.
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How to speed up shared file access in Docker for Mac
For small projects the bad performance is not a critical issue. For huge application rsync is our hero. Good old tools, and still reliable and important.
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