PinnedInLevel Up CodingbyJavier Lopez·Apr 18, 2025How to use Tech Debt for development?You’ve probably heard this phrase, “We’ll refactor it later”, what do you feel with that?. Some people don’t trust this statement, so they…A response icon1A response icon1
PinnedInLevel Up CodingbyJavier Lopez·Feb 5, 2023User Stories and User ExperienceDon’t write user stories based on your UX designs.A response icon1A response icon1
PinnedInDev GeniusbyJavier Lopez·Jul 30, 2022Continuous integration challengesWe always try to integrate the knowledge we acquire in our practices, but Continuous Integration as many other paradigms requires breaking…A response icon2A response icon2
PinnedInDev GeniusbyJavier Lopez·Oct 16, 2021The whys of hexagonal architectureHexagonal architecture has become in a very popular “layered” (no need to be implemented with layers) architecture in the last years. I…A response icon1A response icon1
PinnedInDev GeniusbyJavier Lopez·Oct 17, 2020The Good, the Bad and the UglyA lot of developers are not able to distinguish between a good and a bad design and which are the problems of their code. Is your code The…
InLevel Up CodingbyJavier Lopez·May 10, 2025Cascading failuresNow in Spain we are thinking what happened to have a power outage. Integration points are usually the cause of this.
InLevel Up CodingbyJavier Lopez·Apr 30, 2025Dog-pile effectThe 28th of April in Spain, the whole country was under a power outage. The way the system was restarted, remembered me about the dog-pile…
InLevel Up CodingbyJavier Lopez·Apr 5, 2025How does my mother cook?When I ask my mother about the recipe to do anything she makes, her answer usually is just taste it and decide from that. Can we do the…
InLevel Up CodingbyJavier Lopez·Mar 22, 2025How much upfront design is enough?Design is a word that we use to mention the abstract properties inherent to a product, in hardware this usually means to think in design…
InLevel Up CodingbyJavier Lopez·Feb 9, 2025Tests are closer to sacred cows than codeChange is the only constant in software, and we can change tests, but we should treat tests more as sacred cows than code. At the end, they…A response icon2A response icon2
