Software Development
2023
What I’ve learned from moving down in the career ladder
A reflection on moving back from staff to senior engineer. How it affected me personally and what impact it had on my career.
Integration testing with rocket and sqlx
A simple guide on how to build an integration testing setup for rocket microservices using the sqlx crate to leverage clean databases for each individual test
Database migrations with rocket and sqlx
A simple guide on how to setup sql database migrations in rust using the rocket web framework and the sqlx toolkit crates
Error handling with results in Typescript
What are the main takeaways of error handling with result objects and how does it compare to the try-catch idiom? Looking into different approaches and some examples.
Building a simple rules engine in Typescript
Building a lightweight, general purpose and easy to use rules engine under 30 lines of Typescript. We’ll start with an example use case and build the engine around it.
2022
Multiple test input combinations with jest
A simple method to generate exhaustive input combinations for test cases while maintaining a healthy and readable test codebase
Engineering Friendly Product Manager
The rules of engagement in solid partnership with engineering. The do’s and don’ts as seen from a software developer’s perspective
Creating optimal pull requests
An essay on the role of pull requests and their importance in the software development cycle and what strategies can we use to improve them
Docusaurus vs Gatsby vs Hugo
A comparison between Docusaurus, Gatsby and Hugo, as blogging frameworks and why I chose to use Hugo for implementing this blog
2021
The complete software engineer
What does it take to excel as a software engineer and what other aspects beyond programming can help us differentiate ?