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A Purist's Guide to Type-Driven Design

Using the Go type system to make invalid states unrepresentable.

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Enums: Rust Objects of Unusual Size

Learn how Rust compiler optimizations make enums more efficient.

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7 Tips to Mentor Junior Developers More Effectively

Upgrade your engineering management with advice for growing junior developers into all-star seniors.

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Logfusc: Surefire Secret Redaction for Logs and Traces

Make your secrets unloggable with logfusc, a Go library that makes redacting sensitive data from logs and traces simple.

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Writing Parallel Parameterized Tests with Kotlin and JUnit 5

Learn how to supercharge your Kotlin test suite without using @JvmStatic or companion objects.

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How to Write Atomic Repositories

Learn how to bundle business logic and database operations into atomic units, without leaking transactions into your domain model.

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How to Inject a Logger into Go's HTTP Handlers

Suggestions for cleanly inserting request-scoped loggers into HTTP handlers.