Recently I’ve struggled a lot with preparing working example of Apache Flink CDC job synchronizing collections from MongoDB into PostgreSQL tables. I’ve faced some obstacles, lacks in documentatio...

During my adventure with monorepo, I’ve often struggled with the need to skip a particular module, directory, or set of files when merging from one branch to another. On the other hand, I also had...

Recently, I’ve been reminded that enforcing consistent code formatting across a development team can significantly improve code readability, maintainability, and collaboration, as reported by vario...

Naming is one of the biggest challenges in programming. Meaningful names are crucial because developers spend far more time reading code than writing it. I’ve recently discovered that type is one o...

What is worse than missing tests? Incorrectly written tests. They can give us a false impression of safety. Once upon a time I had a situation when I’ve broke all the application endpoint by upgra...

What will you find here? This blog is intended to be a place where we share the challenges we face in doing what we like to call “work”. So for the most part, the posts will not be in any particul...