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You know the sales pitch, of course. If you work in the DevOps, Platform or SRE field you have probably made it yourself. Infrastructure as Code! The benefits are many, varied and self-evident:It’s reproducible!It’s self-documenting!It’s visible!It prevents mistakes!It lowers cost!It prevents drift!It prevents toil ...

Scala has been with us since the company’s inception, and we are really satisfied with how it served us in all these years. In this article, we want to share our journey with Scala, highlighting the challenges we encountered, the solutions we crafted, and debunking some common myths about Scala based on our experien...

·FollowWe’re in the midst of midterm season and for computer science majors, that means doing what they hate most: coding on paper.There’s no syntax highlighting, auto-formatting, or error messages. You can be 10 lines deep into your solution, realize you’ve made a mistake, and have to erase and rewrite everything.I...

I’m not your typical programmer. While some colleagues chase the mythical “10x” status, churning out code at breakneck speed, I embrace the “0.1x” mentality. You might scoff, thinking I’m a slowpoke, but hear me out.My approach is about more than just lines of code. It’s about building code that lasts. I spend time ...

For several years already, my StackOverflow profile has consistently ranked in the top 1%, having now several tens of thousands of points.When people see my score, they often assume that I spend hours going through random questions and providing answers. However, this is a complete misconception. In reality, I rarel...

Previous major advancements in Computer Science and its applications always felt empowering to me, AI feels different.Dall-E 3, “A drawing of a software engineer overwhelmed by recent advances in Artificial Intelligence”To find out why I feel this way, I had to look into the past couple of decades and compare the ma...

Join me on Discord: discord.gg/streamdalThis is an “opinion piece”. For the actual “how-to” guide, read Migrating Repos on Github to a Monorepo.I think monorepos are a waste of time, at best, and idiotic, at worst. Usually, it’s both.Of course, there are exceptions but they are few and far between (ie. node, well-es...