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Dorota Parad's blog

On FOMO

Hand drawn picture of sun and rainbow, flying, angel-like bunnies, and flowers. It's so idyllic.

Ever heard of this great new invention, AI? Have you adopted it thoroughly yet? No? Aren’t you afraid? The FOMO in the industry is real. Executives either have this fear themselves or are pressured into it by their boards and peers. It seems, at the very …

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Quality or speed - why not both?

Hand drawn picture of a stick figure putting a slice of what looks like a strawberry cake in their mouth, while simultaneously holding another slice of said cake

One of the most annoying myths in software development that just won’t die is the supposed tradeoff between speed and quality. The common thinking goes: quality, speed, cost - pick 2. And because time is money, this in turn gets simplified to speed OR qua…

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Slow and boring: how to build reliable software

Hand drawn picture of a troll attempting to jam a rod between two perfectly working cogs

How does one get to a 99.999% of uptime on their public, frequently used API? The usual answers are all focused on technical solutions. I suppose your tech stack, architecture, deployment strategy, and all these wonderfully concrete choices matter a lot. …

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Aiaiaiaiaiaiaiaiai

A question mark in the top left, a smiley face in the top right. A jumbled mess of colored lines connect the dot of the question mark with the corner of the smile. Child-like colored pencil drawing, hand drawn.

No, a cat didn’t just step on my keyboard. There is a lot about the hottest topic in (every) town that is just… confusing. Every single product out there has to have AI in it. Even a toothbrush. This must mean that everyone wants it and customers are supe…

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The myth of complexity: why microservice architecture doesn’t work for you

A line drawing of a sad face saying 'head hurts'; a swirly line above the head indicates confusion

When I started my company, it was very obvious that we were going with a microservice architecture from the get go. Even though we were just two people, it seemed like the right choice. Different pieces of your business have their own different rhythms af…

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