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#54: Code Coverage
When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.
#52: TDD
TDD is a personal choice, not a measure of test quality.
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#49: Survivor Bias
Survivor bias is the tendency to focus on entities that have successfully passed a selection process while neglecting those that didn’t.
#48: Streetlight Effect
Developers may focus on easily visible issues, such as syntax or styling, but miss more important problems, such as potential edge cases, logic issues…
#46: Cognitive Biases
As software engineers, we must be aware of these cognitive biases and recognize that they can lead us to make incorrect decisions; understanding this…
#41: Arrays vs. Linked Lists
Linked lists offer better time complexity for certain operations, but can lead to lower performance in practice due to a lack of spatial locality and…
#39: Gossip Glomers
Gossip Glomers is a fantastic challenge that explores the world of distributed systems.
#38: One Billion Row Challenge
The One Billion Row Challenge is a programming challenge designed to test how fast we can process a file containing 1 billion lines of data.
#36: Advent of Code
The Advent of Code is by far my favorite coding challenge.
#34: Consensus
Consensus ensures that all nodes in a distributed system agree on the same value, even in the presence of failures or network partitions.
#29: Coupling
High cohesion often leads to lower coupling, as components with a single responsibility tend to interact less with others.
#28: Cohesion
High cohesion improves readability, maintainability, testability, and reusability—making the code easier to understand and work with.
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