🔮 Crafting Tech Teams

Home
Notes
🏔 Our Tech Journey
TDD
Book Club
Archive
Leaderboard
About
🎂 This all started a year ago
A moment of gratitude, introspection and celebration to the year we spent together. To new challenges, optimal growth and joyful experiences in your…
 • 
Denis Čahuk
3
Engineers want the ergonomics of SQL query languages. So why do NoSQL databases exist?
SQL is added to everything from Kafka, Clickhouse, Elasticsearch to Log monitoring and parsing JSON. On top of that, SQL RDBMS systems race towards…
 • 
Denis Čahuk
TDD in Go—Pair programming with Jonathan Hall
We have been coding on and off with Jonathan as an exercise and mutual guest-streaming. This time we followed-up on a conversation that was sparked from…
 • 
Denis Čahuk
 and 
Adrian Stanek
2:06:05
The worst test suites read like word salad after a C++ compiler had a stroke. The best test suites adopt business language.
Write Tests in plain language
 • 
Denis Čahuk
📚 Book club: Release It!, Domain modeling made functional, Peopleware
Join the book Club! Set intention. Read. Learn. Apply. Or procrastinate. Your choice.
 • 
Denis Čahuk
7 Types of Tests
Comedy gold, with a bit of satire and painful technical debt lessons. Adrian joined about an hour into the stream. Summary and highlights of the 2h30m…
 • 
Denis Čahuk
2:51:37
Practical Session: Learning from mistakes in a legacy codebase
This is part two of a double-stream we did with Adrian on Our Tech Journey. Inspired by our friday coding session, we noticed resistance bubble up…
 • 
Denis Čahuk
2:29:30

March 2024

Do you need to plan so much? Agile Planning and Estimations
We dedicate this episode to our OTJ regulars. You voiced wanting to learn more about agile planning, how to deal with conflict during estimation…
 • 
Denis Čahuk
2:26:39
Will TDD Boost Your TEAM?
A look at TDD from the perspective of executives and managers. We look at how business outcomes shift when addressing quality needs through…
 • 
Denis Čahuk
2:09:53
Engineering Management: Dealing with the Broken Window effect, understanding Resistance and Objections to Quality
The first broken window is the signal that no one cares, and so breaking more windows costs nothing. An essay on technical debt and bad habits.
 • 
Denis Čahuk
📚 Book club: Join Team Topologies kickoff
Join the book Club! Set intention. Read. Learn. Apply. Or procrastinate. Your choice.
 • 
Denis Čahuk
Nik Sumeiko: React with Test-driven Development
Over 400 people watched us live as Nik presented a clear and simple approach to designing frontend business architecture to make it easily testable and…
 • 
Denis Čahuk
1
2:54:26
© 2024 Denis Čahuk
Privacy ∙ Terms ∙ Collection notice
Start WritingGet the app
Substack is the home for great culture