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An engineer familiar with a system would have a rough understanding of how information flows, what components exist and how they interact.

Ask anyone writing software "what's the toughest bug you faced?"

Slide from opening keynote of Stripe Sessions 2025 There is a recent video of Patrick Collison at Stripe Sessions 2025 stating that in 2024 Stripe did on average 1,145 pull requests per day.

For all its flaws, Wikipedia is one of the marvels of the modern world.

When working on tests integrating with the Spring Boot framework, it's good to know at least the basics of how the (testing) framework operates.

Anyone who has worked with a code base backed by the Spring Framework has probably encountered RestTemplate at some point: a simple HTTP client which allows type-based consumption of HTTP endpoints: restTemplate.getForObject("https://some.api/employee/1",…

One of the telltale signs of software with a disorganized test suite (and perhaps architecture!)

It's not hard to write really convoluted, unexpressive code and in terms of instructions-per-LOC, other (JVM) languages will run circles around Java.

Professionally, I work on adding business value by using software.

In 2009, Tony Hoare apologized for his billion dollar mistake: introducing the null reference to ALGOL W in 1965.

Recently I came across a piece of code which looked something like this: final SomeStatus result = Optional.ofNullable(dataObject.someField) .map(someField -> STATUS_IF_SOME_FIELD_EXISTS) .orElse(STATUS_IF_SOME_FIELD_IS_MIS…