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Crossover Hiring Process – How it was

In October last year I landed a job at Trilogy Enterprises which hires solely via Crossover. I was thinking about writing an article on my experiences regarding Crossover hiring process ever since, so finally here we go. A bit of history Actually it was my third try to land a job via Crossover – XO…

Backend for Frontend – What is it?

Backend for Frontend design pattern – BFF for short while it’s definitely not “Best Friends Forever” 🙂 – seems to get some hype lately. It’s nowhere a new thing: one of the first mentions were by SoundCloud guys back in 2015. Basically it’s a specialized case of a more generic API Gateway pattern. Let’s figure…

503 Backend Fetch Failed – WTF?

At high level “503 backend fetch failed” boils down to an HTTP protocol status code from the 5xx group. 5xx group consists of so called “server errors” which means that client’s request overall seem to be valid but server failed to fulfill it. Some common reasons for such behavior include: Some bug in the application…

Why is there a big pay discrepancy between different software engineers?

From a client’s perspective it may be confusing to pick up an independent developer. That’s because prices for what seems to be similar work may be drastically different. For instance, it’s not uncommon for web development work to be priced in $20-200/hr range. How so? Why is there a big pay discrepancy between different software…

When to use microservices?

This is a follow up to an earlier article on microservice architecture implementation principles. It was promised back then to get back to the question of “when to use microservices”. A bit of history The overall architecture pattern of microservices was successfully implemented in 2010-ish. That was an endeavor on the part of a few…

Вера современного человека

Вопреки традиционной коннотации “вера” в заголовке не равно “религия”. Я обращаюсь к фразе “вера современного человека” в прямом значении – “убеждение, уверенность в чем-то” – как у Гугла: На мой взгляд в наше время вера в этом значении обрела не меньшее значение, чем она имела несколько веков назад в значении “религия”. Согласись, это малость странно…

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