Artistry of Code

📚 ABOUT THE EPISODE Software projects are filled with all these hard decisions. Deciding between making use of a known technology or pattern versus picking something entirely new is one of the most difficult and impactful ones. In this episode, Grzegorz Godlewski, Artur Wolny and Marek Urbanowicz discuss how they approach this particular type of decision. Tune in for valuable insights! 📑 TOPICS...

📚 ABOUT THE EPISODE Are you considering moving to Monorepos with your projects? In the 22th episode Grzegorz, Artur and Marek share their valueable opinions and experiences realted to working with these. Tune in to learn about the potential benefits and challenges of this approach. 📑 TOPICS COVERED 👉 We share subjective opinions and experiences from working with Monorepos in the JavaScript/Type...

📚 ABOUT THE EPISODE In the 21th episode Grzegorz Godlewski and Artur Wolny share their negative experiences with implementing Microservices. Three examples of misuse of that useful pattern shows us that even the greatest idea can lead us down the blind alley, when we are narrow-minded about it. Listen and take conclusions from those lessons that we learned! 📑 TOPICS COVERED 👉 Impact of blindly...

📚 ABOUT THE EPISODE In the 20th episode of the main series Grzegorz Godlewski, Marek Urbanowicz and Artur Wolny discuss their experiences and preferences regarding the implementation of Continuous Deployment. With this episode we complete our micro-series focused on CI/CD implementation. We strongly believe that all code should hit production as soon as possible, as frequently as possible in a re...

📚 ABOUT THE EPISODE In the 19th episode of the main series Grzegorz Godlewski, Marek Urbanowicz and Artur Wolny discuss their experiences and preferences regarding the implementation of Continuous Integration. We really encourage you to give this episode a listen, as we're sure that having a great CI implementation is key to launching products faster and with better developer experience!  Tu...

📚 ABOUT THE EPISODE Welcome to the 18th episode of the main series! This time Grzegorz Godlewski and Marek Urbanowicz met up to discuss their experience and recommendations on implementing background jobs. Any system which is growing in scale, will need those at some point either to implement performance improvements (by putting some work into the background) or new business requirements (which a...

📚 ABOUT THE EPISODE Welcome to the 17th episode of the main series! This time we reach the bottom of the Test Pyramid, focusing on the most common type of test: the Unit Test. As big fans of TDD (Test Driven Development) we happily discuss our experiences and approaches. We cover proven benefits which you could use as support material in introducing the practice of Unit Testing and TDD in your or...

📚 ABOUT THE EPISODE Welcome to the 16th episode! We continue our step-down and share with you our understanding of integration tests and best practices we've learned when implementing them. In the IT world full of APIs, SaaS and databases, checking how your code collaborate with third parties is a must have. Want to know our way of integration testing? Just press play  🎧 📑 TOPICS COVERED...

📚 ABOUT THE EPISODE In the 15th episode we met to discuss the matter of E2E (end-to-end) tests. Definitely  one of the most difficult types of testing which also has considerable benefits, next to a comparable list of drawbacks. We decided that from this episode we'll aim to deliver shorter content, so that you can enjoy it more spontaneously 🎧, without scheduling a big block of time. Tell...

📚 ABOUT THE EPISODE In the 14th episode we met in our full squad to talk about our hands-on experiences of data consistency challenges. Each of us has brought one detailed example from his career that challenged us to make the choice between strong and eventual consistency. Did you have to make that decision? Or maybe you're about to make one? Listen to this episode to learn what we have done to...

📚 ABOUT THE EPISODE In the 13th episode of the main series, we hosted a friend of ours: Jarosław Wiśniewski, who's working as Technical Leader and Architect at Viessmann R&D Center. Together with Jarek, we talked about "Why long-term projects are really awesome".  We did it by sharing valuable experiences, lessons learned and actionable tips you might want to pick up! 📑 TOPICS COVERED...

📚 ABOUT THE EPISODE In the 12th episode of the main series, we hosted Pierre de Wulf - the co-founder and one of the core developers of ScarpingBee.  Tune in to learn about Pierre, his path to running a successful business and the challenges he had to face along the way. In this episode, we also cover the technical challenges of building & operating developer-oriented software products....

📚 ABOUT THE EPISODE In the 11th episode of the main series, Grzegorz, Marek and Artur talk about their experience with live coding during job interviews for programming positions. How did these look like and if they enjoyed it at all. Tune in to hear about the thoughts and opinions on the matter, along with ideas on how to make it a pleasant experience for everyone involved. If you're hiring a lo...

ABOUT THE EPISODE This episode follows up on the subject of challenges in asynchronous communication which was started in episode #009 🧵.  Join us for another journey into the depths of this domain! TOPICS COVERED In episode #010, in which we dug deeper into the ground of Asynchronous Communication, talking about: 🔢 How we can deal with "out of order" processing? Is it the responsibility of...

Welcome to episode #009. Today's topic is the Challenges of asynchronous communication. Do you have enough of waiting for HTTP responses to finish? Your application times out on a day-to-day basis? Check out the 9th episode to see if async communication patterns can ease, or maybe aggravate your pain? In this episode, you'll learn: 👉 How to determine if using asynchronous communication is the rig...

In the fifth bonus episode of the Artistry of Code Snippets series, Grzegorz shares his experience in achieving the "Sustainable Pace of development". Tune in for an interesting story and some good tips on how to implement this practice for yourself or the team you're working with. The steps are simple, and the return of investment is quite fast. What to expect from it? Happy and performant teams,...

Another episode is out live! In the #008 we’ve taken a look at the latest 26th volume of ThoughtWorks’ Technology Radar. Each of us brought a few points of his choice from the report, making a highlights list of things that we find especially interesting, valuable or important in our daily work. If you don’t know what the Technology Radar report is - it’s fine, because we’ve made an effort for our...

Welcome to the “James Bond” of AoC episodes - #007. We used this special opportunity to host a special guest - Nicolas De Boose, Tech Lead from Urbantz. Nicolas is a friendly, warm and open-minded person and a true professional at the same time, which makes him a perfect fit for the position.  In our conversation we revealed a few highlights from his career, we got to know what drives him for...

In this episode, Artur, Marek and Grzegorz share their views and experiences with different forms of so-called "knowledge sharing" on levels of: organizations, teams and individuals. 💡 Some of the ideas can be implemented by you in a matter of hours, some of them require more time and alignment with the surrounding organization. But all of them are worth giving them a try! 🎬 We'd like to encoura...

In the third episode of the Snippet series, Marek shares his 4 tips on the professional development of software developers. If you want to grow as a developer - this episode is for you! Do you have any other tips to help others to grow? Share them in the comments on our social media profiles! Make sure you've subscribed to our podcast, don't hesitate to share this episode with others and tell us w...

Another episode released! In #005 we’ve tried to answer the question “Who is the QA anyway?” of delivered software. Is it a manual tester, Quality Assurance Engineer, or someone else? We’ve analyzed the typical process of Agile software development to find an answer. Do you have your opinion already? Press the “play” button and compare it to our findings!

In the third episode of the Snippet series, Grzegorz shares his tips on implementing the "Learn, Apply, Repeat" mantra. If you were looking for ways on how to structure your personal development - you will find this episode really useful! The full article can be found here: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/learn-apply-repeat-grzegorz-godlewski Make sure you've subscribed to our podcast, don't hesita...

Episode #004 is already here! This time we wanted to share with you the selection of tools that might help you forget about the routine tasks and focus on things that really matter (and fortunately machines can’t do them yet 😅 ) - solving business problems. We’ve brought our daily helping tools that can:  keep an eye on the code quality and style, help you write the code or can be useful whe...

In the second episode of The Snippet Series Artur is giving his insights into the topic of proper sizing "unit" for Unit Testing. How to make Unit Testing well-grained?  Is every piece of code worth having separate test suite?  What to do when the size of your test files overwhelm you?  You can find answers to those questions in the episode. 00:00 Intro 🎼 00:28 How it all started?...

In the third episode, Artur, Marek and Grzegorz share their approach towards refactoring of code. How to be well prepared? What to focus on? What to avoid while performing refactoring? Answers to these and other questions can be found inside. Make sure you subscribe to the show in your podcasting app! You can also drop us a review :)