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Sticky Documentation, Part 1: Code as Documentation

How to make the most of the documentation that "sticks" closest to an application through its lifecycle—the code itself.

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Using Reflection to Test Complex Objects

Testing large, complicated Java objects can be done with reflection instead of by writing lots of redundant and error-prone tests.

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What Does Good Code Look Like?

Four qualities I prioritize when evaluating whether I'm reading good code.

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Intro to Refactoring: Making Code Easy to Understand in 4 Steps

At some point, someone (possibly even you) will wonder, "What in the heck does this piece of code do?" Refactoring can make their job infinitely easier.

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Keeping it Simple… Again and Again

Overly-complex code is hard to change and understand. Pay down on your sanity via simplification and sustainable practices. You won't regret the investment!

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Why You Can’t Just “Do Better” on Code Quality

If your code is not a good model of the problem anymore, it's time to take a comprehensive review of the problem-space and think about what has to change.

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Empowering Our Clients to Deploy Their Own Apps

Giving out customer the keys to deployment has been gratifying and liberating--I highly recommend you try it on your own projects.

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Five Steps to Finding Performance Bottlenecks

How to pinpoint the source performance optimization problems in your applications.

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Breaking Things Is the Best Way to Fix Them

Stuck while debugging? A little creative destruction can shed some light on the shape of the problem and narrow down your options.

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Test-Driven Infrastructure (TDI)

Many of the benefits of Test-Driven Development can be applied when managing infrastructure as code by pursuing a Test-Driven Infrastructure approach.

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Keeping a Development Journal

A development journal is a great way to keep track of work done, tasks outstanding, and the learning that happens in projects. You should keep one!

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Turning Asynchronous Networking Inside-Out

Using Python's new asyncio library, we see how coroutines dramatically simplify asynchronous networking code vs. callback-based asynchronous implementation.

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