Adam - The Developer articles - 28 total
The Unwritten Laws Running Your Code
Nobody warns you about these in bootcamp. You learn them the hard way, usually at 11pm before a...
When Past Team Failures Become Your Team's Problem
I want to tell you about a situation I'm currently navigating as a team lead. A senior technical...
Why Most Teams Shouldn't Build a Chat System
There's a moment in every product team's life. The roadmap is open, someone's had a coffee too many -...
Only The Strong Survive: Breaking Into Software Engineering in 2026
I don't have a solution to offer you. I wish I did. But I do have a warning. If you're trying to...
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The Junior Developer is Extinct (And we are creating a...
Sharding Databases with Spring Boot: Patterns, Pitfalls, and Failure Modes
Sharding is one of those topics that sounds intimidating until you actually understand what's...
The Cult of Clean Code
A few days ago, I watched a senior developer spend 3 days refactoring a perfectly functional feature...
We Ship 5MB of JavaScript Then Gaslight Users About Their WiFi
Your site takes 10 seconds to load on a phone. Your users complain. You blame their internet...
The Invisible Hand That Fed Us
A few days ago, I learned that Tailwind laid off 75% of their workforce. Their framework is...
Concurrency Without the Pain: A Guide for Beginner & Mid-Level Developers
Ever since I first encountered concurrency, I've been fascinated by it. If you've ever wondered why...
Technical Debt Is a Myth Created By Bad Managers
Hot take incoming. Buckle up. I've spent quite some time writing about technical debt, preaching...
Code Reviews: Quality Control or Ego Olympics?
Let's talk about what's really happening in your code reviews. You know that junior who just quit?...
Technical Debt vs Structural Debt: A Complete Guide for Engineering Teams
We've all been there. Sprint planning rolls around, and someone raises their hand: "We need to pay...
NestJS Dependency Injection: Why Your Services Won't Inject (And How to Fix It Properly)
If you've worked with NestJS for more than a day, you've seen this error: Error: Nest can't...
You're Not Building Netflix: Stop Coding Like You Are
You know what's hilarious? Fresh bootcamp grads write code that's too simple. Six months later, after...
Why Developers Fear Simple Requirements More Than Legacy Code
This blog was inspired by a 30-minute meeting I had this afternoon - the kind where the user story is...
Efficient S3 File Uploads: Speed & Large File Handling in Spring Boot
Uploading files efficiently to S3 isn't just about getting data from point A to point B—it's about...
Efficient S3 File Uploads: Speed & Large File Handling in NestJS
Uploading files efficiently to S3 isn't just about getting data from point A to point B—it's about...
A Full-Stack Developer Is A Myth
We've all seen the job postings. "Looking for a Full-Stack Developer proficient in React, Vue,...
Your "Microservices" Are Just a Distributed Monolith (And Everyone Knows It)
🕵️ The Scene of the Crime Let me paint you a picture. You're in a meeting room. Someone's...
I Spent 2 Days Migrating to TypeScript So I Could Write JavaScript Anyway
Congratulations! You've adopted TypeScript. Now you're writing JavaScript with commitment...
Deep Dive: What Actually Runs When You Write 'await' in JavaScript?
Ever wondered what's really happening when you write async and await in JavaScript? Let's peel back...
A Tribute to the Java Pioneers: You Built the Foundation We Stand On
Picture this: It's 1997. You just downloaded the JDK 1.1 from Sun's website after waiting 45 minutes...
Spring WebFlux: When to Use It and How to Build With It
Spring WebFlux promises to handle thousands of concurrent users while your code stays blissfully...
Repository Pattern in NestJS: Do It Right or Go Home
In my last blog, I roasted developers who treat the repository pattern like a junk drawer—cramming it...
Stop Massacring the Repository Pattern: A Love Letter to Separation of Concerns
So... I've been reviewing code for years, and I've seen things. Terrible things. Things that would...
Java Isn't Verbose – You Are
Every week, some developer crawls out of their legacy codebase to announce that Java is "too...
Modern Code, Ancient Habits: Why Your One-Liners and Cryptic Names Aren't Clever
We live in 2025. We've got 32GB RAM machines, terabytes of storage, AI-powered IDEs, and linters that...