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.
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…
Project structure is a hot topic that has likely challenged us all throughout our careers. It's common to find ourselves questioning where a particular piece of code should go, which can be disruptive to the development process. This constant self-questio…
You probably already know it - The Single Responsibility Principle, one of the five SOLID principles of object-oriented design. It states that a class should have only one reason to change, meaning it should only have one job or responsibility. This princ…
