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Most backend work doesn't require someone in the same room, the same city, or even the same timezone. The pricing model should reflect that.
Read moreCI/CD pipelines execute third-party code on every run — actions, plugins, base images, and dependencies. Each is a potential attack vector. The 2020 SolarWinds and 2021 Codecov breaches showed what happens when pipelines are compromised at scale.
Read moreYou spent four months hiring her. She shipped one major feature. Then Atlassian called and she was gone before the next sprint started.
Read moreBuilding a microservices architecture on synchronous REST calls recreates the availability coupling of a monolith while adding network latency and distributed failure modes. The trap is subtle and the exit is non-trivial.
Read moreA common misreading of TDD treats it as a rule requiring a test before every line of code. The actual practice is more selective and more practical — applied where it provides design leverage, skipped where it does not.
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