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Best Developer Interview Question

I want to give you one of the best tips related to hiring and developer interview questions. It doesn’t matter if you are the one in the interview who’s answering or asking this question. This tip relates to one of my most significant issues with the software development community: we often take a concept and then butcher it to the point where it no longer has its original meaning. YouTube Check out my YouTube channel, where I post all kinds of content accompanying my posts, including this video showing everything in this post. Semantic Diffusion I first discovered the term Semantic Diffusion… Read More »Best Developer Interview Question

What are Business Rules? It’s not this.

What are business rules? Well, they often get confused with trivial validation. I think it’s essential to make the distinction because where you apply business rules and validation will differ and indicate the type of system you’re building. Let me explain and illustrate how you can make the distinction with a simple code example. YouTube Check out my YouTube channel, where I post all kinds of content accompanying my posts, including this video showing everything in this post. Example Let’s immediately start with a very simple code example. Here’s a single method that has two conditions. The first is that if the… Read More »What are Business Rules? It’s not this.

How to seed a new Microservice with data?

You’re ready to deploy a new service but need to seed it with data from other services. How do you do that? I’ll cover various solutions to this common problem I often ask about. Stick around because I will challenge you to comment to provide use cases and why I don’t think it should be that common. YouTube Check out my YouTube channel, where I post all kinds of content accompanying my posts, including this video showing everything in this post. Local Cache Often, people want to seed a new service with data from another service because they’re keeping a local cache… Read More »How to seed a new Microservice with data?