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

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

Why UUIDv7 is Revolutionizing Time-Ordered Identifiers for Modern Systems

Why UUIDv7 is Revolutionizing Time-Ordered Identifiers for Modern Systems

In today’s data-driven world, unique identifiers are essential to ensuring that systems and databases can reliably and efficiently store and retrieve information. Traditional UUIDs (Universally Unique Identifiers) have long served as the go-to solution for generating unique keys across distributed systems. However, the newly introduced UUID version 7 (UUIDv7)

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

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

Why You Should Stop Developing Directly on Production Servers: A Guide to Safer Development Practices

Why You Should Stop Developing Directly on Production Servers: A Guide to Safer Development Practices

In the fast-paced world of software development, it might seem efficient to SSH into your production server, make code changes, and see them live immediately. But while direct server development might work for quick fixes in non-critical environments, it's generally a bad idea for production. Here’s why—

The Six Stages of Mastering Technology as a Software Engineer: A Journey Through Curiosity, Creation, and Respect

The Six Stages of Mastering Technology as a Software Engineer: A Journey Through Curiosity, Creation, and Respect

In the life of a software engineer, learning a new technology isn't just a one-step process; it’s a journey through understanding, creativity, and ultimately, humility. Seasoned engineers know that each stage offers its own insights, challenges, and opportunities for growth. Here’s a look at the six

Beyond CRUD: The Importance of End-to-End Testing in Modern Applications

Beyond CRUD: The Importance of End-to-End Testing in Modern Applications

In the world of software development, CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete) operations form the foundation of many applications. Whether you're building a simple blog or a complex enterprise system, these operations are crucial for data management. However, relying solely on CRUD functionality can be misleading and dangerous. This

Beyond CRUD: Why Modern Developers Need to Embrace Deployment, Scaling, and Observability

Beyond CRUD: Why Modern Developers Need to Embrace Deployment, Scaling, and Observability

In the fast-evolving tech landscape, the days when a developer could focus purely on CRUD operations—create, read, update, and delete—are gone. Today, it’s no longer enough to simply make an app “work”; it must be able to scale, run reliably, and provide insightful feedback about its performance