- Share ideas and findings
Software development is a team sport. The best engineers are not just skilled coders — they are effective communicators who multiply their team’s output by sharing knowledge. If your ideas live only in your head, they die the moment you leave the project. Sharing ideas and findings is how teams…
- Automation
Why Automation Matters Every manual task you repeat is a bug waiting to happen. Automation eliminates human error, saves time, and lets you focus on solving real problems instead of running the same commands over and over. As a rule of thumb: if you do it more than twice, automate it. Automation…
- Test Coverage
Why Testing Matters Tests are the safety net of your codebase. Without them, every change is a gamble — you push code and hope nothing breaks. With a solid test suite, you refactor with confidence, onboard new developers faster, and catch regressions before they reach production. In professional…
- Naming Conventions
Why Naming Matters Code is read far more often than it is written. The names you choose for classes, methods, variables, and constants are the first layer of documentation your teammates encounter. Good names eliminate the need for comments, reduce onboarding time, and prevent bugs caused by…
- SOLID Principles
SOLID Principles SOLID is an acronym for five design principles that make object-oriented code more maintainable, flexible, and scalable. These are not academic theories — they are practical guidelines that experienced engineers apply daily to keep codebases from turning into unmaintainable messes.…
- Documentation
Documentation is not an afterthought — it is a core engineering deliverable. Code without documentation becomes legacy code the moment its author walks away. As a senior developer, the documentation you write falls into a handful of categories, each with a clear purpose and audience. Code Comments:…
- How to tackle a problem
Every senior developer follows a structured approach to problem-solving. Whether you are debugging a production issue or building a new feature, these seven steps will help you arrive at a clean, efficient solution every time. We will walk through each step using a real-world example: find…
- Questions to ask recruiter
Question 1: What is the job description? This question summarizes aspects like the duties, skills required for the job, who you would be accountable to and are accountable to you. It gives you a brief idea about the work associated with the position. Question 2: What are the prerequisite skills or…
- Standard Design Principles
These are the foundational design principles every developer should internalize. They complement the SOLID Principles (covered in a dedicated post) and apply across languages and frameworks. 1. DRY (Don’t Repeat Yourself) Every piece of knowledge should have a single, authoritative representation…