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Communication isn’t just a soft skill. It’s the foundation of every high-performing engineering team. When done right, it enables clarity, alignment, and momentum. When neglected, it can slow down progress, create frustration, and even unravel otherwise great projects.
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In the race to deliver faster code, meet aggressive deadlines, and scale products globally, technology teams risk overlooking the human element that underpins sustainable success. Empathy, the ability to understand and share another person’s feelings, may feel at odds with data-driven cultures, yet it is precisely this human skill that elevates technical leadership from good…
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When people think of product development, they often imagine a single app. But in one of my most complex and rewarding projects, we weren’t building just one — we were building an entire ecosystem of applications designed to work together as a single, seamless EdTech platform.
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My journey started at the age of 15, when I was accepted into the Computer Academy, an institution that typically only admitted students aged 16 and up. They made an exception for me, and it was there that my passion for technology truly began to take shape. Initially, I had aspirations to be a Web…
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As the tech lead responsible for keeping our product both evolving and maintainable, I’ve spent countless hours wrestling with the age-old tension between shipping new features and paying down technical debt. Over the years, I’ve distilled our approach into a set of practical principles and tactics that let us move fast and stay sane.
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As the tech lead on this project, I oversaw the transformation of our legacy monolithic application—handling everything from user accounts and digital card sharing to lead capture and CRM integration—into a suite of independent microservices running on Google Cloud Platform. In this article, I’ll share both the theoretical underpinnings and the hands-on steps we took…
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In this article, we walk through the design of a modern, scalable e-commerce system. The goal: to create an architecture that is resilient, high-performing, extensible, and can handle the realities of a busy, dynamic online store.
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While this Loan App system dates back to 2018—built on Laravel 5.x and a React 16 (without Hooks) front-end, it had a structured, layered test suite. In 2018, the popular choices included ESLint and JSCS for linting, PHPUnit for PHP, Jest + Enzyme for React, and Cypress or Selenium for end-to-end. Below, we’ll map out five…
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Imagine your E-Commerce platform uses a Next.js/WordPress monolith that seamlessly routes users to two React SPAs (seller and customer) via JWTs and OAuth 2.0. To harden this flow against XSS and CSRF, we have to shift all tokens into HTTP-only cookies, implement rotating refresh tokens, and provide a robust logout/expiry strategy. By the end, you’ll…