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Clean Architecture: Controllers Should NOT Catch SQL Exceptions
Error Handling - API layer
May 29
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Valentina Jemuović
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Build + Deploy Is NOT a Pipeline
Most teams *think* they have a pipeline.
May 26
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Valentina Jemuović
9
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DRY is not about *code duplication*
DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself)
May 21
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Valentina Jemuović
5
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Jenkins is *not* CI
(Continuous Integration)
May 18
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Valentina Jemuović
7
2
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Hexagonal Architecture: The “Microservices First” Mistake
The Distributed Monolith Trap
May 15
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Valentina Jemuović
9
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Why Developers Hate Meetings
Meetings that go nowhere
May 13
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Valentina Jemuović
8
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Most Bugs Start Before Coding
The bug wasn’t in the code
May 11
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Valentina Jemuović
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Clean Architecture: Do NOT Inject Loggers Everywhere
Code Example
May 7
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Valentina Jemuović
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I Thought I Was a Developer. I Was Just Retesting.
Every change meant retesting
May 5
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Valentina Jemuović
10
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April 2026
Stop Duplicating Acceptance Tests
How to avoid double maintenance costs
Apr 30
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Valentina Jemuović
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Hexagonal Architecture: Your Driven Ports Are Leaking Infrastructure
Clean Interfaces, Leaky Abstractions. Your driven ports look clean — but they're leaking infrastructure into your domain. Your domain is coupled to…
Apr 23
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Valentina Jemuović
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Unit Tests are NOT enough!
You have 100% coverage. All the unit tests are passing. But then, in production, a horrible bug happened.
Apr 21
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Valentina Jemuović
8
4
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