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You thought a senior backend hire would cost DKK 70K a month. The real number — once Denmark's employer obligations are factored in — is closer to DKK 100K. And that's before the recruiter calls.
Read moreThe testing pyramid — many unit tests, fewer integration tests, even fewer end-to-end tests — is sound advice for many systems. It is not a law, and treating it as one produces test suites that are thorough in the wrong places.
Read moreGitflow solves a release coordination problem. Trunk-based development solves a integration speed problem. Which one your team needs depends entirely on your release model — not your company size.
Read morePrimitive values scattered across a domain model are a maintenance liability. Value objects give concepts like money, coordinates, and email addresses a home — with equality semantics, validation, and behavior that travels with the data.
Read moreTutorials teach you how to build things. Five years of production work teaches you why most of what you built needed to be rebuilt. Here's what actually changes when you stop learning in isolation and start working on systems that matter.
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