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Adam - The Developer

Software Engineer · Hobbyist Mathematician · Self-Taught Musician

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Your Caching Strategy Is Not a Strategy

Your Caching Strategy Is Not a Strategy

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Episode 2: I Was a Junior Developer and I Must Be Stopped

Humorous takes on relatable coding mistakes

Episode 2: I Was a Junior Developer and I Must Be Stopped

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Episode 1: I Was a Junior Developer and I Must Be Stopped

Relatable stories of chaotic legacy code

Episode 1: I Was a Junior Developer and I Must Be Stopped

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Resume-Driven Development Is Quietly Killing Your Product

Resume-Driven Development Is Quietly Killing Your Product

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No Redis. No Kafka. Just Postgres. I Built Chat.

No Redis. No Kafka. Just Postgres. I Built Chat.

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Premature Optimization Is Bad, But Your App Is Just Slow Because You're Lazy

Premature Optimization Is Bad, But Your App Is Just Slow Because You're Lazy

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The Unwritten Laws Running Your Code

The Unwritten Laws Running Your Code

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When Past Team Failures Become Your Team's Problem

When Past Team Failures Become Your Team's Problem

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Why Most Teams Shouldn't Build a Chat System

Why Most Teams Shouldn't Build a Chat System

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Only The Strong Survive: Breaking Into Software Engineering in 2026

Only The Strong Survive: Breaking Into Software Engineering in 2026

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Sharding Databases with Spring Boot: Patterns, Pitfalls, and Failure Modes

Sharding Databases with Spring Boot: Patterns, Pitfalls, and Failure Modes

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The Cult of Clean Code

The Cult of Clean Code

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We Ship 5MB of JavaScript Then Gaslight Users About Their WiFi

We Ship 5MB of JavaScript Then Gaslight Users About Their WiFi

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The Invisible Hand That Fed Us

The Invisible Hand That Fed Us

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Concurrency Without the Pain: A Guide for Beginner & Mid-Level Developers

Concurrency Without the Pain: A Guide for Beginner & Mid-Level Developers

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Code Reviews: Quality Control or Ego Olympics?

Code Reviews: Quality Control or Ego Olympics?

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Technical Debt vs Structural Debt: A Complete Guide for Engineering Teams

Technical Debt vs Structural Debt: A Complete Guide for Engineering Teams

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NestJS Dependency Injection: Why Your Services Won't Inject (And How to Fix It Properly)

NestJS Dependency Injection: Why Your Services Won't Inject (And How to Fix It Properly)

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Why Developers Fear Simple Requirements More Than Legacy Code

Why Developers Fear Simple Requirements More Than Legacy Code

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Efficient S3 File Uploads: Speed & Large File Handling in Spring Boot

Efficient S3 File Uploads: Speed & Large File Handling in Spring Boot

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Efficient S3 File Uploads: Speed & Large File Handling in NestJS

Efficient S3 File Uploads: Speed & Large File Handling in NestJS

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Your "Microservices" Are Just a Distributed Monolith (And Everyone Knows It)

Your "Microservices" Are Just a Distributed Monolith (And Everyone Knows It)

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I Spent 2 Days Migrating to TypeScript So I Could Write JavaScript Anyway

I Spent 2 Days Migrating to TypeScript So I Could Write JavaScript Anyway

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Deep Dive: What Actually Runs When You Write 'await' in JavaScript?

Deep Dive: What Actually Runs When You Write 'await' in JavaScript?

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A Tribute to the Java Pioneers: You Built the Foundation We Stand On

A Tribute to the Java Pioneers: You Built the Foundation We Stand On

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Spring WebFlux: When to Use It and How to Build With It

Spring WebFlux: When to Use It and How to Build With It

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Repository Pattern in NestJS: Do It Right or Go Home

Repository Pattern in NestJS: Do It Right or Go Home

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Stop Massacring the Repository Pattern: A Love Letter to Separation of Concerns

Stop Massacring the Repository Pattern: A Love Letter to Separation of Concerns

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Java Isn't Verbose – You Are

Java Isn't Verbose – You Are

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Modern Code, Ancient Habits: Why Your One-Liners and Cryptic Names Aren't Clever

Modern Code, Ancient Habits: Why Your One-Liners and Cryptic Names Aren't Clever

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