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Most Developer Profiles Break the Moment You Ask for Proof
A few months ago, I started looking at developer profiles the way a reviewer looks at production logs. Not the polished summary, not the clean headlin…
Brownfield System Design Interviews: How to Answer Migration and Legacy Questions
The Prompt That Filters Greenfield Preparation Somewhere in the middle of many senior loops, the interviewer abandons the clean-slate prompt and reach…
Design Engineer is the title that quietly ends your career
It seems that becoming a "Design Engineer" is the best way to ensure that you'll never be able to retire and you'll be stuck working forever. The job …
Sunday at 2, Thursday at 8
Mark and Thando met as teenagers at the United World College of the Adriatic, on a cliffside campus in Italy; a kid from Eswatini (Thando) and an isla…
"Kubernetes Interviews Are Broken When Trivia Matters More Than Real Skill"
Kubernetes Interviews Are Broken When Trivia Matters More Than Real Skill Kubernetes interviews often fail when they test whether a candidate can reca…
How I Crashed My TCS Prime Interview and Talked My Way Out of Hell Mode
Picture this, sitting in front of a panel of seasoned pros for a TCS Prime interview, your palms sweating, your brain rewinding every tutorial you eve…
Building My Developer Portfolio: More Than Just a Personal Website
A portfolio is often the first impression a recruiter, hiring manager, or fellow developer gets. Instead of treating it as a static resume, I wanted t…
Transitioning from Python to Rust or Go: For Which Workload?
Python's rapid development capabilities and rich ecosystem make it the starting point for many projects; however, when performance limits are reached …
Entry-Level Data Engineering Is Gone. Here's the Proof.
I've been on both sides of the data engineering hiring table for years. Interviewed candidates, been the candidate, watched the market shift underneat…
What a Decade in Software Taught Me About Technology
Reflections from a full-stack engineer who started with small websites and ended up building systems for banking, government, and marketplaces. Ten ye…
How to Build and Sell Coding Challenges Online
How to Build and Sell Coding Challenges Online tags: programming, money, teaching, career tags: programming, money, teaching, career How to Build and …
Happy Monoversary!
Dang! Its been a whole year. Doesn't even feel like it. About a year ago I was employed at Techinnover Analytics Ltd, where I had several firsts - but…
Common Mistakes Beginner Software Engineers Make (And How to Avoid Them)
Starting a career in software engineering is exciting, but it can also be overwhelming. With countless programming languages, frameworks, tools, and b…
Nobody Hands You Day One: Stepping In as CTO on a Live Product Across Three Runtimes
Most engineering stories start at day one with a clean repo. This one did not, and I think the messy version is the more useful one to read. I stepped…
The Most Enduring Skills of a Software Engineer
Understanding software architecture, adaptability, risk assessment, and writing readable code. There is a harmful myth that a developer’s job is solel…
I Had Zero Programming Experience. Two Months Later, I Built My First Real-World Solution.
Two months ago, I couldn't explain what a variable was. Today, I'm writing backend code in Go, working with APIs and databases, using Git, Docker, and…
The Laws That Quietly Govern Good Software (Part One)
"We'll clean it up later." — every engineering team, at some point In my last post, I wrote about the hidden complexity behind simple products . The s…
From Java Monoliths to LangGraph Agents: What Transfers
I spent ten years building enterprise Java systems — a payments monolith broken into Spring Cloud microservices, banking applications, and currently a…
I Ran an AMA on Dev.to. Here Are My Favorite Questions
This month, my personal blog turned 8 years old...and my dev.to account turned 7. To celebrate it, I ran [an AMA session: I've Spent 10+ Years in Soft…
From Learning to Implementation: My Journey with Firebase Analytics & GA4
Over the past few weeks, I've been focused on deepening my understanding of mobile analytics—not just by completing a course, but by putting those con…
What Judges Actually Score: Notes From a Year of Hackathon Judging
I judged three hackathons over about ten days this July: MLH x DigitalOcean "AI for Social Good" on July 11, the Sports World Cup Hackathon in San Fra…
JWT vs Session Tokens | What’s the Difference and Which Should You Use?
JWT vs Session Tokens : The One Sentence That Actually Matters If you've built more than one web app, you've had this argument with a teammate: "just …
Hello DEV — I’m Mahdi, a Full-Stack Engineer Building Reliable Systems and Open Tools
Hello DEV Community! I'm Mahdi, a senior full-stack engineer and international STEM educator. Over the past eight years, I've designed and shipped sof…
Feeling lost as a Software Engineer in the age of AI. What’s next?
Hey dev community 👋 I’m a web developer, and lately, I’ve been feeling a bit stuck on where my career is heading. Where I started vs. Where I am now B…
The Moment the Server Room Goes Dark
The usual warning about AI starts like this: the moment the lights go out in the server room, every step we leaped forward with AI snaps back to where…
Why Andrés and I Started Developwave
I met Andrés at EAFIT, in a group project, and what stuck with me wasn't that he was smart — plenty of people in that program were smart. It was that …
How to Pass the Technical Interview: A Practical Guide for Arab Developers
Originally published on the Talents-OS blog . Disclosure: I work on Talents-OS. TL;DR: A practical preparation plan for technical interviews: intervie…
I'm Entering My First Sherlock Audit Contest: The Setup, the Plan, the Fear
I have shipped software for 18 years. Roughly 8 of those in crypto. And this week I signed up for my first Sherlock audit contest, and my hands were a…
The New Developer Portfolio Is Not a Screenshot. It Is the Work Trace.
AI makes it dangerously easy to look productive. A screenshot can look impressive. A demo can look polished. A generated article can read smoothly. A …