/en/categories/programming-talk/ Recent content in Programming talk on Pollito Dev Hugo -- gohugo.io Thu, 09 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000 /en/blog/2025-10-09-large-software-projects/ Thu, 09 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000 /en/blog/2025-10-09-large-software-projects/ This post is part of my Programming talk blog series . My Mindset For Software Projects Good Code Has Two Requirements Not Everything That Can Be Done Should Be Done Fragmented Codebases Lead to High Developer Frustration You Don’t Need to Be an Expert to Make Great Software Project Size ≠ Team Size Sometimes Rewriting Is Worth It People That Inspire Me Theo Dreams of Code carykh Eskil Steenberg In the previous post , we established the grim reality: the default setting for large-scale software development is complexity. /en/blog/2025-10-03-large-software-projects/ Fri, 03 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000 /en/blog/2025-10-03-large-software-projects/ This post is part of my Programming talk blog series . A Developer’s Perspective The Facts That Shape Our Chaotic Pipeline Onboarding Hell is the Default You Are a Maintainer, Not a Builder (And That’s Okay) Human Creativity is Measured by Story Points The Default Architecture Has Too Many Moving Parts So What Now? If I had to describe the current state of large-scale software development in one word, it would be: Chaotic. /en/blog/2025-05-06-i-built-a-spring-boot-guide/ Tue, 06 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000 /en/blog/2025-05-06-i-built-a-spring-boot-guide/ From Quick E-book Idea to Something More… What “Pollito’s Opinion on Spring Boot Development” Is All About Who is this Guide For? Work in Progress (But Already Valuable!) From quick e-book idea to something more… Interestingly, the seed for this "Spring Boot Guide" thing was planted with a somewhat more modest goal. Initially, I started this with the idea of creating a simple e-book, to be published internally or on my current employer's page, hoping to earn the "content creator" 80 USD bonus from it. /en/blog/2025-02-12-i-built-the-same-app-thrice/ Wed, 12 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000 /en/blog/2025-02-12-i-built-the-same-app-thrice/ Inspiration Understanding The Application Quick Metrics There’s No The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly The Good: Java The First Love: Groovy Groovy Relaxed Typing Writing Tests With Spock I Would Use Groovy Again Given The Chance The Disappointment: Kotlin OpenAPI Generator Didn’t Work Out Of The Box Handling Java Time In Tests It Was Not Bad Conclusion Inspiration This blog is heavily inspired by Theo's "I built the same app with 5 different stacks" video. /en/blog/2023-07-26-the-perfect-software-project/ Wed, 26 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000 /en/blog/2023-07-26-the-perfect-software-project/ Introduction A monolith Frontend + Backend Microservices There is not a perfect software project approach, isn’t it? Introduction What would the perfect software project even look like? I think that if I was asked this question when I started my path as a web developer (September 2021), a year ago (July 2022), and now (July 2023), you would get three different answers. That means I'm learning and changing perspective of what "the perfect software project" looks like.