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Are You Failing Fast or Miserably?

The philosophy of failing fast only works given one important condition, one that seems to often be ignored, turning the whole idea into…

6 min readJul 16, 2023

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Illustration of going in the wrong direction and spending resources on what is not even needed.

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How to Spot Primitive Obsession Before It Becomes A Headache

Primitive obsession is typically noticeable when it’s already a pain to deal with. Luckily, there are some things we can think about to…

5 min readJan 23, 2023

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Primitive value

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Basic Secure Programming Principles Everyone Should Know

How to make it harder to hack your application.

9 min readJan 19, 2023

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Security

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How to Differentiate Business and Service Layers in Layered Architecture

Exploring the relationship and differences between business logic and services.

17 min readJan 12, 2023

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How to Differentiate Business and Service Layers in Layered Architecture

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Inheritance Should Not Be Preferred as a Means to Extend Code

Inheritance tends to create inflexible codebases and is often misused

6 min readNov 28, 2022

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Bad example of inheritance

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Microservice Design Mistakes (Part 2): Data Cache Chains

Handling data in microservices can be difficult, and careless use of caches and event buses can be problematic

8 min readNov 14, 2022

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Data storage device

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How To Be A Good Mentor To Junior Developers

Mentoring junior developers is not an easy task, which does more harm than good if done wrong

7 min readNov 10, 2022

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Growing plants to symbolize a person’s growth

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Stop Using YAGNI as a Lazy Excuse to Write Bad Code

You must have robust code to apply the YAGNI principle

5 min readNov 4, 2022

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Lazy programmer

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Over-Mocking in Unit Tests and How to Think About Units

Having too many mocks in code is bad, and one of the reasons for many mocks is a misconception about units.

6 min readNov 1, 2022

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Pieces of a puzzle to illustrate units

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Microservice Design Mistakes (Part 1): Ignoring Context

Concepts and entities in a microservice architecture should be contextual.

4 min readOct 30, 2022

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Microservices

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Giedrius Kristinaitis

Giedrius Kristinaitis

I’m a software engineer who loves to explore ways to make development more effective and enjoyable. Love to call out bad practices and misunderstandings.

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