Software Engineering

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📔 What is it?

This repository is a collection of various materials and tools that I use every day in my work. It contains a lot of useful information... See more

What is Hatchet?

Hatchet replaces difficult to manage legacy queues or pub/sub systems so you can design durable workloads that recover from failure and solve for problems like concurrency , fairness , and rate limiting . Instead of managing your own task queue or pub/sub system, you can use Hatchet to distribute your functions between a set of... See more

Netflix created a scoring system from 0 to 100 that assigns a priority to a request, with 0 being the highest priority and 100 being the lowest priority.

The score was based on 4 dimensions

Functionality - What functionality gets impacted if this request gets throttled? Is it important to the user experience? For example, if logging-related requests... See more

Comments are helpful sometimes. But sometimes, they are just an indication of bad code.The proper use of comments is to compensate for our failure to express ourself in code [1].Whenever you have to add a comment in your code, ask yourself if it is really required or if you could instead put that into a new function and name the function so that it... See more

Each log message in the system should be unique.

If I query for a log in a specfic service, I will be confused to see the exact same logs at different flows inside the service.

More than that, I’ll just have to start debugging for the issue, since the logs are now offically useless.

One way to keep the logs unique is to denote the service name and... See more

To make life for developers easier, be explicit in what exactly is being returned. In the Stripe API, we have an object field in the response that makes it abundantly clear what we’re working with. For example, the API route

/v1/customers/:customer/payment_methods/:payment_method

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returns a PaymentMethod... See more

The complete Protobuf platform

Accelerate gRPC adoption with the Buf Schema Registry — built by the world's Protobuf experts.

Subscription.status={"active", "canceled"}

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A single field tells us in plain language what the status of the object is by using enums instead of booleans. Another upside is the extensibility and future-proofing that this technique gives us. If we go back to our previous example of adding a “pause” mechanic,... See more

Loose Coupling and High Cohesion: How To Avoid Tight Coupling and Low Cohesion?

Cohesion is a measure of the number of relationships that parts of a component have with each other.

High cohesion means that : All of the parts that are needed to deliver the component's functionality are included in the component.

Coupling is a measure of the number of... See more