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Prevent accidental deployments on Friday

You feel you should not deploy your code on Fridays but nothing stops you. Can you prevent accidental deployments?
Bartosz Mikulski
18 Feb 2018

Developers just wanna have fun

Software maintenance is painful because of hype driven development.
Bartosz Mikulski
22 Jan 2018

Support for old browsers — is it necessary?

Do you think that every web page should support all existing browsers? How about all versions of those browsers?
Bartosz Mikulski
17 Jan 2018

The beauty of properly used statically typed languages

The real power of programming in Scala is not in mimicking Haskell and overusing monads, but in taking advantage of its type system.
Bartosz Mikulski
14 Jan 2018

Extreme ownership and software engineering

What a software engineer can learn from “Extreme ownership” book? How can it influence your daily work?
Bartosz Mikulski
11 Jan 2018

Perpetually dysfunctional software

What happens when we release another beta version? Are users happy or angry? What if the reality is different than we think?
Bartosz Mikulski
26 Jul 2017

4 reasons why TDD slows you down

It is easy to announce that TDD slows you down, but have you ever wondered why it happens? Is there anything you can do better?
Bartosz Mikulski
08 May 2017

Always stop unused Akka actors

Akka actors do not magically disappear when you no longer need them.
Bartosz Mikulski
03 May 2017

Scalar 2017

Scalar Conference 2017 — everything I liked
Bartosz Mikulski
12 Apr 2017

Reversing a binary tree and other great interview questions

We do not like being asked to write an algorithm on a whiteboard during job interviews, but is there a better way?
Bartosz Mikulski
19 Mar 2017

The importance of documenting things

What happens when someone asks you about your code and you cannot answer because you have no idea how it works? That happened to me… again.
Bartosz Mikulski
12 Mar 2017

One thing can improve LambdaDays

One thing that can significantly improve LambdaDays.
Bartosz Mikulski
12 Feb 2017