Interview resources, build your own X, a list of great public APIs, and more — If you want to learn more about tech, subscribe to my brand new YouTube Channel, where I explain complex topics in a crisp & sharp way to skill you up! → https://www.youtube.com/@litwire GitHub is the number one platform for sharing all kinds of technologies, frameworks, libraries, and collections of all…

At least he was using his professional skill to solve his personal problems 😄 — Imagine you are having a really hectic day at the office. You developed a new software containing thousands of code, which is not working properly. As the famous phrase says, “No code works right the first time,” you need to troubleshoot this now. Suddenly your phone pops up. It’s your…

And which one should I choose? If you are like me, the first time you went to create a Dockerfile and had to choose an image from the DockerHub page, you were thoroughly confused. Sometimes choices like this can freeze us up from acting, so maybe we just go with…

Advanced tips and tricks that will save you time and headaches. — When I started on my DevOps journey, I was blissfully unaware of everything ahead of me. Yet, after years of working closely with some highly talented developers, I begin to hit my stride. It’s incredible how much you can learn sitting next to a…

We Are Surrounded by Miserable Mediocre Programmers — Programmers hate being called mediocre. No programmer wants to be called a mediocre programmer. Every programmer wants to be called an expert in their domain. But the reality is that we are surrounded by mediocre developers who claim to be experts. Also, mediocrity is contagious. If you, as a developer…

Automated testing during software development involves many different techniques, one that shouldn’t be used is mocking. Mocks are a distraction at best and provide false confidence at worst. What is Mocking? It is common for software developers to use mocks to simulate behaviour of code for network calls to other services or for…

I said both are different skills. — I am far from being good at mathematics. For example, I have always had great difficulty calculating a limit or a derivative. I am also of a rather average level in equations, and I have always had trouble with trigonometric functions in geometry. On the other hand, I don’t understand…

Frustration tolerance. — Software development also means debugging software. So recently I had a bug that I was called in on and the developer who found the bug went on standby after two hours of searching. I had meanwhile found out that the bug depends on the number of local variables. In the…

I was pretty happy when I joined a mobile product company around 5 years ago. They were using cutting-edge libraries and frameworks that were quite famous. Some examples included: Protocol buffers to ensure efficient TCP-based data transfer AES algorithm to encrypt on-device data The ever-latest mobile UI frameworks (both iOS…

Learn the must-have skills to grow as a successful senior software engineer — Every software developer wants to grow in their career and become a senior one day. However, most of them don’t know what it takes to become a senior software engineer. I am not talking about ‘Senior Software Engineer’ as a designation. Designations in different companies mean different things. …