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I will implicitly trust anything Jessie Frazelle works on. Rare combination of taste, skill, and passion.

honestly just leave him. it's a more metal burial place than any other he'll get anywhere else.

Yeah, it's included as one of the gradle scripts which fails the build in CI if the rules don't pass. No template, as it's specific to my team's project, but one example is that we…

I love Detekt! It's particularly good for enforcing project conventions that can't be covered with standard linters. With access to the full AST, you can basically enforce any kind…

Almost my entire org uses it for backend server development at Amazon. There is very strong support for Kotlin support within the Amazon dev community.

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Someone who actually knows what they're talking about. Even with the Customer Obsession LP, it's not too hard of a stretch to arrive at a conclusion where more ads are shown. Bette…

There is organic matter buried in and around the site that can be used to date the point at which it was filled in.

In my Amazon team, we use PostgreSQL as a queue using skip-locked to implement transactional outbox pattern for our database inserts. People commenting 'just use a queue' are total…

Nothing about the outbox pattern guarantees ordering.

Even if are "down to several nano-seconds", a slight clock drift can be the different between corrupt data or not, and when running at scale, it's only a matter of time before you …

This is precisely why large tech companies generally offer parallel career progression paths for individual contributors who don't wish to go into management. A Senior or Principal…

A couple ways. If the need is not real-time and analytical, you feed the data from multiple services into a separate BI database which can do slower and more complex joins across d…

What does it mean for a field to be required in new API version but optional in the old version?

Man, I remember running this and ophcrack as a 15 year old to recover the windows login password for my mom's computer after she forgot it. She was convinced her password had just …

There is sooooo much more that Kotlin offers over Lombok it's not even close.

> Checked exceptions are optional. But they're one of the BEST features in Java. No > So much code fails unexpectedly. When you want to build a professional application you need to…

Yup, I work at Amazon and my team along with many surrounding teams are only coding in Kotlin from this point on. The JVM and its ecosystem brings insane value to the table, and Ko…

I have some hope for Hytale, an open sandbox game created by the creators of the HyPixel minecraft server. https://hytale.com/

Commit messages don’t matter. In fact they matter so little that I'm going to write a blog post about how much they don't matter. Commit messages are probably one of the worst plac…

+1 for Memrise

I agree with the author, but it's also possible to take the other extreme where engineers think they don't need any input from product.

Fasting is not unhealthy.

First question is already awful. "Haven't eaten in 4 hours? You need to eat!" Give me a break, I skip breakfast and usually do intermittent fasting every day, not eating until 4 or…

Yup, this exactly. It is often under-appreciated how much an active corporate engagement model is due to 1 or 2 highly motivated employees. Once they leave, engagement drops becaus…