Ivan Zakutnii articles - 29 total
Exception Generation is Pure Evil
Exception generation. You certainly know what this is and have definitely used it, if you've...
Why Augmented Intelligence after all?
Why Augmented after all? Why, when talking about AI, do I almost always primarily mean...
Productivity through primary metrics: how to finally understand where your time goes
Introduction In a world where we're constantly offered new task management apps, time...
Embedding Design Into Code
Over-engineering can probably happen at almost any stage of design (or lack of design) and actual...
The Wisdom of Avoiding Conditional Statements
Cyclomatic complexity is a metric that measures the complexity and tangledness of code. High...
What the heck is homomorphism?
Hello. Continuing my dive into the nature of abstractions in software engineering, I've reached yet...
What is Abstraction?
The definition of "Abstraction" in software engineering is expressed differently by various people,...
I have tried to love Python
This isn't clickbait, seriously. I'm not here to trash Python, just sharing my thoughts. For the...
HighLoad Saga. Part Three: Transaction Processing and Analytics
When we say "transaction," we refer to a group of operations (read/write in various combinations)...
HighLoad Saga. Part Two, Chapter 2: Data Storage and Processing Subsystems
So, databases are data storage systems. Essentially, they should solve just two tasks: save the data...
HighLoad Saga. Part Two, Chapter 1: Storing the Data
Modern tools and technologies are no longer fit in classical DBMS categoris. DBMS is database...
Hack in Declarative Model - Part 3
Hello! This is the third post in a series delving into the Declarative Computation Model. In the...
HighLoad Saga: The Fundamentals
In the modern big tech world, there are titans among mortal, tiny applications, and the common name...
The Essence of Error Theory
Good day, my friends. I always love to dig into computer science topics, learn about the history of...
Pitfalls in software design reasoning
Oh, hello there! Today I would like to talk about counterintuitive things in software...
You do not need TDD. Only if...
What is TDD, really? TDD is a somewhat underrated practice in the IT mainstream, but...
Hack in Declarative Model - Part 2
Hello everybody and everywhere! Let's continue our investigation into the declarative computation...
Designing Effective REST APIs: A Comprehensive overview
What is REST API? REST API is, first of all, an API. An API stands for "application...
The Value of API Gateway: When Does It Shine?
In the contemporary landscape, an API Gateway plays a pivotal role in the design of distributed...
General Techniques for Documenting Systems
Hello, friends. I've written about levels of reasoning about software systems several times before in...
So what is Design Patterns?
So what is Design Patterns? Basically, design patterns in OOP is an accumulation of other...
Hack in Declarative Model - Part 1
Last year I was studying a programming paradigms, and the first is declarative programming. It is...
Python's Concurrency
Kind of an intro Concurrency means doing multiple tasks at "once" in programming. In many...
Immutability is The Key
Immutable States State is one of the fundamental concepts in programming. We might say...
Debugging Python Code
Oh, hello there!!! Today, I'd like to talk about debugging in a more practical context. Please take...
"Levels" Of Reasoning About Software
What is erroneous program? How do we understand that a program is erroneous? How can we...
Bullsh*t Of Self-Documenting Code
Oh, hello there! So… yep. What is self-documenting code? It is a concept that applies to a codebase...
Hack in Fundamentals
Now I am taking a course which is called "How to Understand Everything in Programming." In reality,...
Algorithms Complexity
This is a complex topic, particularly if you have never studied data structures, never heard of time...