Blog Posts

Mar 9, 2025
The Software Documentation Trifecta
Dec 23, 2024
Software Performance Rarely Matters
Dec 11, 2024
Modularization Can Mitigate People Problems
Aug 28, 2024
In Defense of Object-Oriented Programming
Aug 10, 2024
Guest Post: In Defense of Clean Code
Jun 12, 2024
Are Developers Feature Machines?
Apr 7, 2024
The Knowing-Doing Gap In Software Development
Mar 9, 2024
Why Continuous Improvement Rarely Works
Feb 25, 2024
Guest Post: Your Database Deserves Better
Jan 28, 2024
Developer Growth Is Rare
Oct 5, 2023
Mitigating the Billion-Dollar Mistake
Sep 10, 2023
How To Avoid Wasting Time With Integration Tests
Aug 27, 2023
Productive and Unproductive Friction
Aug 6, 2023
Process Changes Cannot Fix People Problems
Jul 6, 2023
Abstractions Aren't Free
Jun 20, 2023
Web Frontends Should Be Dumb
May 26, 2023
Beyond Email: Leveraging Issue Trackers for Effective Communication
May 17, 2023
Use Kanban in Fake Agile Companies
Apr 26, 2023
Fake Agile Companies
Apr 2, 2023
Easy To Implement Software Is Worth More
Mar 12, 2023
Code Reviews Should Be Optional
Feb 26, 2023
Code Duplication: When It Makes Sense to Repeat Yourself
Feb 5, 2023
Book Review: Domain-Driven Design by Eric Evans
Jan 11, 2023
ABAP Exception Pitfalls
Dec 18, 2022
Adding Microservices Degrades Your Monolith
Nov 10, 2022
The Subsidiarity Principle In Software Development
Oct 6, 2022
Use Kanban instead of Scrum
Jun 7, 2022
Sane Programming
Jan 23, 2022
Avoid Caching
May 2, 2021
Stop the Decline First
May 1, 2020
The Power of Incentives
Dec 15, 2019
Seven Signs That Something Is Wrong With Your Scrum
Oct 7, 2019
Look Upstream For The Cause Of Your Problems
Sep 8, 2019
The Futile Quest for True Object-Orientation
Jun 29, 2019
The Leader-to-Worker-Ratio
May 22, 2019
Testing vs. Quality
May 3, 2019
Why Your Developers Don't Write Automated Tests
Mar 24, 2019
Choose Simple Solutions Over Flexible Ones
Mar 15, 2019
It Doesn't Matter When You Write Your Tests
Mar 1, 2019
The Developer Skill Matrix
Feb 10, 2019
Book Review: Elegant Objects by Yegor Bugayenko
Jan 22, 2019
Clean Code in Real Life
Jan 11, 2019
What's Your Expected User Competency?
Jan 3, 2019
The Trouble with Knowledge Transfer Meetings