Software Engineering

A list of my favorite programming books and some additional gems.

Widely known term “singleton” has more than one meaning, which leads to confusion and misunderstandings. Let’s clarify the matters.

Intuitive description of Finite State Machine concept, alongside several examples and a discussion of the scope of applicability.

Exploration of the benefits and the drawbacks of Event Bus design pattern and a list of best practices for working with these components.

Mocking is good, but also bad. You should feel ashamed for using mocks, but, in practice, everybody uses them. Wat? Let’s clear some things up!

Demonstration of so-called Callback Hell situation and explanation of how to prevent it (or fix, if needed) in your own code

Discussion of different package structures, which are crucially important, but often ignored part of your project’s architecture.

Summary of my thorough research concerning usage of client-generated unique identifiers vs. server-generated ones in web applications.

I’ll try to convince you that you absolutely need dependency injection in your software project by debunking several very common myths about it.