Building a Resilient Meta Ads Scraper: What Breaks (and What I Learned Fixing It)
When I set out to build a tool for pulling ad data from Meta's platforms, the brief I gave myself was deceptively simple: let someone search for ads b…
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The Difference Between a Product and Infrastructure
One of the most interesting realizations I've had while building software is that products and infrastructure are not the same thing. At first, that s…
Your feature flag defaults are backwards in tests
Most test suites get feature flag isolation backwards. The instinct is to opt in to a feature when a test needs it. The correct default is to force th…
Tackling Performance Bottlenecks in Full-Stack Development: A Senior Engineer’s Guide
As a full-stack product engineer, one of the most persistent challenges I face is managing performance bottlenecks that arise between frontend, backen…
Agentic QA Pipelines in 2026: Why Test Scripts Are Already Dead (And What Replaces Them)
Agentic QA Pipelines: Why Your Test Scripts Are Already Obsolete You wrote the test. You maintained the test. The app changed. You rewrote the test. I…
🎯 The STAR Quest: Level‑Up Your Behavioral Interview Like Neo Seeing the Code
The Quest Begins (The "Why") I still remember the first time I faced a behavioral interview. I walked in feeling like I’d just aced a whiteboard algor…
Your Spec Files Are Lying to You. Mine Were Too.
Preface I want to be upfront about something before we get into it. None of the frameworks in this article is mine. The ideas here come from two peopl…
Why most AI apps fail in production (not in demos)
A demo is a story. Production is a stress test. I’ve seen AI apps that feel like magic on a laptop… then crash the moment 10 users show up. Why? Laten…
AI Agents Explained: The Impact of Autonomous Systems on Software Engineering
Introduction Artificial intelligence is now much more advanced than chatbots. With little assistance from humans, modern AI systems are capable of rea…
HLD Fundamentals #3: Monolithic vs Microservices Architecture
As applications grow, one of the biggest architectural decisions is whether to keep everything in a single application (Monolith) or split it into ind…
Systems Thinking: The Missing Skill in Modern Software Engineering
Many developers learn programming by focusing on functions, classes, frameworks, and algorithms. Early in our careers, success often means writing cod…
The Jedi Mind Trick: How One Resume Line Turned My Job Hunt Into a Victory Lap
The Quest Begins (The "Why") Honestly, I felt like I was stuck in the opening scene of The Matrix —surrounded by green code that made zero sense, exce…
Admin Panels Are Not Configuration Systems
I learned this the annoying way: admin panels are not configuration systems. They can become one, but not by accident. Early on, it feels harmless. So…
Defensive Algo Design: Error Handling, Backtesting, and Mitigating Simulated Slippage
Every quant developer knows the feeling: you write an algorithmic strategy, run it against a basic backtesting script, and the equity curve looks like…
Wiring the Guardrails
A Level 5 Engineer — Issue #6 Preface I want to be upfront about something before we get into it. None of the frameworks in this article is mine. The …
Why Custom Software Projects Fail (And How to Avoid the Most Common Mistakes)
Why Custom Software Projects Fail (And How to Avoid the Most Common Mistakes) After working on software projects of different sizes, I've noticed that…
AI Fluency for Software Engineers: A Practical Playbook Beyond Prompting
AI Fluency for Software Engineers: A Practical Playbook Beyond Prompting A few years ago, being productive with AI mostly meant knowing which tool to …
Fixing Bugs Is Easy. Preventing Their Return Is Hard
Most developers celebrate when they identify the root cause of a bug. The debugger finally reveals the problem. The fix is coded. Tests pass. A pull r…
Why 60% of Enterprises Are Shipping Untested Code in 2026 (And How Agentic QA Fixes It)
The 2026 Agentic Coding Trends Report buried a stat that should be on every engineering leader's radar: 60% of enterprises are shipping untested code …
AI Code Refactoring: Why Testing Still Matters
Quick Answer: While AI agents can rewrite or refactor thousands of lines of code in hours, generating the code is only half the battle. Verifying that…
"It Works" Has Never Been Good Enough
It all started when the Senior Architect dropped by the daily standup. The team lead had the backlog up on the big screen and there was a story about …
How a Magento 2 Upgrade Broke Our Multi-Website Setup (And Why the Problem Wasn't Magento)
A few weeks ago, I was working on a Magento 2 upgrade for a project that hosts multiple websites under a single Magento installation. The upgrade itse…
Part 5 ("The Author Doesn't Have to Be an Engineer") has been generating sharp comments. Worth a read for the thread alone.
The Author Doesn't Have to Be an Engineer: How the Harness Holds Quality (Series Part 5) Self-healing guardrails for business-side PRs Ryosuke Tsuji R…
How Databases Impact System Scalability and Speed in Software Engineering
Databases are core to most software systems, and their design directly influences both scalability and performance. Here’s what every engineer should …
The Spec That Doesn't Lie
A Level 5 Engineer — Issue #5 Preface I want to be upfront about something before we get into it. None of the frameworks in this article is mine. The …
Andy's Laws of AI in Software Engineering
Shareable blog post edition: https://andymaleh.blogspot.com/2026/06/andys-laws-of-ai-in-software-engineering.html Law #1: "The more Software Developer…
【Deep Dive】Frontier Code: The Benchmark That Asks "Would a Maintainer Merge This?"
Abstract Cognition's Frontier Code benchmark reframes how we evaluate AI coding capability. Instead of asking "does the code pass tests?", it asks a h…
The Future of Software Development Isn’t Writing More Code — It’s Building Smarter Systems
For decades, becoming a better developer meant one thing: Write more code. Learn more programming languages. Memorize more syntax. Build more features…
Breaking the Monolith: Achieving True Scalability in Flutter Mobile Applications
For modern software and product teams, speed is no longer just about reckless sprinting; it is about building a hyper-efficient feedback loop that tra…
Securing AI Systems: Red Teaming, Prompt Injection, and Adversarial Testing
Part 6 of a series on building reliable AI systems In the previous parts of this series, we explored: Testing AI systems Evaluation pipelines RAG eval…