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Software Engineering

Explore the principles, techniques, and tools behind building reliable, scalable, and efficient software systems. From design and development to testing and deployment, this tag covers best practices and insights for software engineers of all levels.

Understanding Orthogonality in Software Development: The Key to Robust Design

Understanding Orthogonality in Software Development: The Key to Robust Design

In the realm of software development, the term orthogonal is frequently mentioned, yet its significance can sometimes be overlooked. Understanding orthogonality is crucial for developers who aspire to create systems that are not only functional but also maintainable and scalable. This article delves into the concept of orthogonality, its implications

Navigating the Pitfalls of Dependency Management: A Cautionary Tale for Developers

Navigating the Pitfalls of Dependency Management: A Cautionary Tale for Developers

In today’s fast-paced development landscape, dependency managers have become indispensable tools for streamlining the integration of libraries and packages into our applications. They promise efficiency, ease of use, and rapid development. However, as many developers have discovered, there’s a dark side to this convenience. The rise of dependency

From Abstraction to Reality: Understanding Threads, CPUs, and Cores for Modern Software Engineers

From Abstraction to Reality: Understanding Threads, CPUs, and Cores for Modern Software Engineers

When you're fresh into software engineering, concepts like threads, CPUs, cores, and parallelism can feel complex and intimidating, especially if most of your work is in higher-level languages or web development where hardware details are abstracted away. But in embedded systems or systems programming, these concepts are not

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

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

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