I'm Justin, a senior staff engineer focused on application architecture and code organization at scale. I build modular monoliths. Systems that stay maintainable without distributed complexity. Currently at Auctic.
Traditional web apps rot. Every dependency is a ticking clock. You ship something that works. Six months later you're updating packages not because anything broke, but because you got a security warning or a deprecation notice. Now you have to upgrade X,…
DRY is dogma. Don't Repeat Yourself. Nobody remembers learning it, but everyone believes it. See two similar things? Extract them. Share them. Reuse them. This has always been bad advice. AI just makes it indefensible. Shared Code is a Liability The pr…
The Open/Closed principle is the second principle of the SOLID acronym and is the broadest principle of SOLID. Because it so broad it can seem a little vague when you are first learning about it but it's actually a very simple concept. The official state…
