What's the Financial Impact of a 4-Day, 32-Hour Work Week

There’s been a lot of buzz recently around the idea of a four-day, 32-hour work week. The concept is to keep the same weekly pay, work fewer hours, and deliver the same output that you previously delivered in a 40-hour work week. I’m curious to see how this concept plays out in reality.

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The Art of Engineering Management

The engineer manager post is a journey that may require a different approach across different teams and organizations. Hear Thomas Hanson's journey here. Engineering teams are the core of every software development company.

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From Development to Real Users: How to Create a Web Performance Story

Some of the most common questions asked when it comes to work with performance are, How do you convince stakeholders that improving the performance of your project is actually worth the investment? How can you prove that the work is necessary to begin with? Or prove that you have shipped improvement

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How to Choose the Ideal Length for Your Team’s Sprints

Whether starting a new software project or simply transitioning to agile project management, your team needs to pick a length for upcoming sprints. A sprint is a repeatable, fixed-length iteration. During this time, the team delivers a potentially-shippable product increment.

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When life gives you lemons, write better error messages

Error messages are part of our daily lives online. Every time a server is down or we don’t have internet, or we forget to add some info in a form, we get an error message. “Something went wrong” is the classic. But what went wrong? What happened? And, most importantly, how can I fix it?

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Blogged Answers: A (Mostly) Complete Guide to React Rendering Behavior

I've seen a lot of ongoing confusion over when, why, and how React will re-render components, and how use of Context and React-Redux will affect the timing and scope of those re-renders. After having typed up variations of this explanation dozens of times, it seems it's worth trying to write up a consolidated explanation that I can refer people to.

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React Hook Form: Schema validation using Zod

React hook form is a library for working with forms in React. It is flexible, performant, and straightforward to use. On the other hand, Zod is a TypeScript first schema declaration and validation library.

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How to write CommonJS exports that can be name-imported from ESM

This blog post explores how to write CommonJS modules so that their exports can be name-imported from ESM modules on Node.js. When importing CommonJS modules, the module.exports object is provided as the default export.

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Microfrontends: Microservices for the Frontend

Can we take microservice architecture patterns and apply them to the frontend? Microservices are a popular way to build small, autonomous teams that can work independently. Unfortunately, by their very nature, microservices only work in the backend.

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Mastering data fetching with React Query and Next.js

React takes pride in calling itself an unopinionated UI library by giving you as a developer a choice for everything from bundling, routing, state management, etc.

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Hiring for remote work in 2022

I've written twice about remote work so far, but only from the perspective of an engineer looking for work. Last year me and old co-worker of mine decided to start something on our own. It started as something to be done on the side.

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React Best Practices for Software Design and Architecture

I have been working as a React developer since 2018 and there is no single great practice to structure and design a React app. At the micro level, there are some fine practices but if you are working in a team then the team has its own architecture.

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Structures, roles, responsibilities and comparison with common…

Software engineering teams can be complicated, and finding a solid approach to structure them for success is not easy. Probably, because there is no single way of doing it.

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Building a design system with Radix

Radix is an open source library that provides components for building accessible, high-quality React web applications and design systems. Radix is part of a new wave of headless components being created in the frontend space, and this pattern has been gaining a lot of traction lately.

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Interview the interviewer

It’s easy to think that an interview is mainly for a hiring manager and their team to evaluate and judge candidates. The truth is that interviews are a two-direction experience. The team has to decide if they want to extend you an offer and, if so, you have to decide whether to accept it.

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Considerations When Submitting a Pull Request to Open-Source Projects

Committing to open-source projects on GitHub is one way to improve the overall quality of experience when developing. It’s also a great way to elevate your understanding of project tooling. Many of these considerations are similar to those you would follow on any project.

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Dealing with Imposter Syndrome : Harness It for Growth

The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines imposter syndrome as a psychological condition that is characterized by persistent doubt concerning one’s abilities or accomplishments accompanied by the fear of being exposed as a fraud despite evidence of one’s ongoing success.

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I Read 21 Articles About How to Become a Senior Developer So You Don't Have To

I think it's fair to say that almost everyone wants to move forward in their career. For some, that means becoming a Senior Developer. Since there are a lot of people that have this dream, there are also lots of people that write about how to attain it.

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What Makes a Great Manager?

This is the latest issue of the Software Engineering Review. Each week I share a summary of a research paper or talk on building effective engineering teams. Reach out with thoughts on Twitter at @abinoda, or reply to this email.

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What is competitive analysis? Template, examples, and how-to

In this comprehensive guide, we’ll define what a competitive analysis is, describe the benefits product teams stand to gain from conducting one, and walk through the steps of how to do a competitive analysis.

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Let’s Build Micro Frontends with NextJS and Module Federation!

That headline is a mouth-full, I know! In the past several years I have been working on distributed and multiple teams as well as being a pretty early adopter of NextJS (since around V2.0!) in production.

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A Software Developer’s Most Important Skill? Communication

Communication might just be the most important skill to have as a software developer. It’s more important than typing speed or your data structures knowledge. It’s more important than math, coding language knowledge, or perhaps even more important than knowing how to Google.

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Why is React Declarative? A Story About Function Components

React is declarative. It’s almost the first thing you are told about the library in its home page: But, what does it mean? “Declarative”, at least in the programming sense, is usually defined as “telling what to do instead of how to do it”.

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A React Hooks Challenge for Senior React Developers

This is indeed an interesting challenge. Here I want to share this challenge with you. After reading this article, you will have a deeper understanding of functional components. The demo’s structure is simple: it contains a button and a list.

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How Big Tech Runs Tech Projects and the Curious Absence of Scrum

Project management is a topic most people have strong opinions on, and I’m no exception. To answer this question, I pulled in help from across the industry as well. In this issue we’ll cover.

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6 Best Practices for Software Delivery

Over the years, I’ve shared my knowledge with my clients and colleagues about what Good Software Delivery looks like. There’s a lot of great publicly available information out there for teams that are trying to improve their software delivery, increase quality, and ship to production with more confidence, but where do you start?

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The Role of an Enterprise Architect in a Lean Enterprise

If you are an Enterprise Architect (EA) in an organization transitioning to lean or agile practices, you may be feeling a bit lost. You have worked hard to get where you are. You probably wrote most of the critical system software keeping your enterprise running.

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Top 10 Microservices Design Patterns and Principles - Examples

Hello guys, if you are using Microservice architecture and want to learn about different Microservice design patterns and principles to better architect your application then you have come to the right place.

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