Rule of three
Sometimes called “1, 2, refactor”, the “rule of three” is code refactoring rule of thumb to decide when a replicated piece of code should be replaced by a ne...
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Exceptions are meant to be exceptional
Now and again I come across patterns that I see in codebases and pull requests, especially when the project or team is maturing. This covers one of them.
Is no QA the way to go?
There’s no getting away from it, quality is a whole team responsibility. If you’re aiming for Continuous Delivery, then you’ll recognise one of the core prin...
Avoid using switch-case statements
Recently I’ve been asked why switch-case statements should be avoided, it turns out to be a pretty common question, and although I’m pretty happy with the re...
How I stopped worrying about servers and learned to love serverless
I first heard of the term “serverless” in about 2015, probably around the time that the “Serverless Framework” launched, October 2015.