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…
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Intuit OA 2026 Guide: Code, SQL & Bash Questions Explained
The Intuit Online Assessment (OA) has started rolling out again, and the format remains very similar to previous years. Most candidates receive three …
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…
We got used to it before we understood it
Swipe and there is food at the door. Swipe and there is a date on Thursday. Swipe and there is a stranger's car outside taking you home. Ask for a fun…
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…
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…
How to Write a Career Change Resume That Actually Gets Interviews
A lot of people reading dev.to didn't start in software. Bootcamp grads, teachers, nurses, retail managers, marketers who taught themselves SQL. And p…
Why Your AI Resume Sounds Generic (And How to Fix It)
I'm Larbi, and I build Roleframe, an AI tool that tailors resumes to specific jobs. I spend a lot of time looking at what large language models (LLMs)…
Three failures I still think about
People sometimes ask where the discipline comes from — the three-line rule, the habit of trusting nothing except my own running code, the assumption t…
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…
You're Not Blocked. Your Work Is.
What my grandfather understood about being indispensable Let me tell you about the most productive week of my career, during which I accomplished abso…
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…
41 percent of engineers admit ignoring alerts and I found out I was one of them
Tuesday evening I counted something I had never counted before. The number of times my own tooling interrupted me in one working day. Not other people…
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 …
Just for Fun: Fear and Loathing in the Age of Coding Agents
There is a distinct, quiet disquiet settling over the software engineering landscape today. You can feel it in LinkedIn post threads, in hushed conver…
The Person Who Fixed the Bugs Just Vanished
We've been testing a new project this week. The project's origin story is a mess. Upper management used AI to generate an HTML demo, then handed it to…
🚨 AI Should Assist Developers, Not Define Them
Every day, I see discussions about how AI assistants and Copilot are changing software development. And honestly? I agree. AI is helping us save time,…
Your first developer is statutorily your cheapest one: the in-house vs agency arithmetic in India
Disclosure: I work at ZoopCoder , an Indian development agency. That means I have an obvious commercial interest in you buying agency hours instead of…