Many times we want to display some random data to the user, for example if you have an e-commerce website apart from the top products or some list of products that a fancy recommendation system generates, we want to display to the user a list of...
ReadDo you remember the first time you wrote something in a new programming language and you run it, and it worked? Didn't you had this 'OwO, I am a Perl developer now, let's put it on the CV' feeling? Until, someone else come to you and say, 'No, no, no, you can squeeze these 10 lines, into this one-liner'...
ReadMany times we encounter situations where our code depends on a complicated data structure or a data structure that has implicit semantics. For example...
ReadLet's start with a story. A few years ago I was working in a start-up, the company had just started, and we were working on the first ever product. There were hundreds of bugs and performance issues, the server was crashing every few minutes...
ReadJust some thoughts on giving praise. One of the biggest mistakes that you can make as a manager/team-lead/head-of-whatever is to give praise only to a few of the people who worked on a project...
ReadSometimes we have classes that represent collections, for example a class `Group` can...
ReadFeature switches/toggles are an important technique that can help us deploy code in various environments under different conditions without blocking other developers in the team (or other teams) from releasing their features...
ReadIn many programming languages, the parameters of a function are by default mandatory and the developer has to explicitly define that a parameter is optional. In Javascript, every parameter is...
ReadIf you are building applications that consume real-time data you may have faced a situation where the component or service that consumes the data cannot keep up with the volume or speed of the produced data. The **producer** module of the system is emitting data faster than...
ReadMany times we encounter situations where our code depends on a complicated data structure or a data structure that has implicit semantics. For example...
ReadArgument order in function signature is a common source of bugs and frustration. Imagine you have the following Vehicle class, its constructor accepts values to instantiate an object...
ReadMany times functions accept object references that can be null, and we tend to add if statements to treat the special case where null is passed to a function, and either provide a default response or...
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