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Product Engineering

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The Trap of Premature Optimization: Why Chasing Efficiency Can Lead to Inefficiency

In the world of software engineering, it’s easy to fall into the trap of premature optimization. This is a phenomenon where developers, in their eagerness to build fast and efficient applications, make changes or design choices too early in the development process—before knowing if those optimizations are even

Modernizing Legacy Systems with the Strangler Fig Pattern: A Step-by-Step Guide to Safe and Incremental Migration

In today’s fast-paced tech landscape, modernizing legacy systems is often essential for businesses to stay competitive and agile. But taking a legacy system offline for a full-scale replacement can disrupt business, introduce significant risks, and cost more than most organizations are comfortable investing. Enter the Strangler Fig Pattern—a

Scaling Your System: Why a Rewrite Should Include Decoupling, Re-architecting, and Optimization for Future Growth

In the life cycle of any application, there comes a tipping point where scaling up becomes both a technical and strategic necessity. Perhaps your system has outgrown its original architecture, or you’re finding it harder to add new features without impacting existing functionality. At this stage, a rewrite may

How to Communicate Metrics That Matter: Going Beyond Numbers for Meaningful Impact

In the fast-paced world of product engineering, metrics are crucial. But just as important as the data itself is the context behind the numbers. Too often, we see reports like, “Infra cost was recorded at Rp 5 million,” or even, “Infra cost dropped from Rp 7 million to Rp 5