Project status:

• ✅ Actively maintained
• 🐢 Limited bandwidth
• 🔒 Not looking for contributions from others

These are some notes regarding things I have learned.

You can read the notes at learning-notes.mistermicheels.com or directly on GitHub. If you prefer to read them on GitHub, you can use the overview below to navigate (generated by markdown-notes-tree).

• Architecture and design
  • Architectural boundaries
  • Architectural fitness functions
  • Architecture and people
  • Circular dependencies
  • Deletes
  • Deployable components
  • Duplication
  • Exception handling
  • Humble Object pattern
  • Inversion of control
  • Names
  • Separation of concerns
  • Architectural boundaries details
    • Boundaries and the database
    • Boundaries and duplication
    • Boundaries and third-party dependencies
    • Boundaries and the web
    • Horizontal versus vertical separation
    • Separation mechanisms
  • Object-oriented design
    • Avoiding fat service classes
    • Composition over inheritance
    • SOLID principles
  • Reference architectures
    • Clean Architecture
    • Layered architecture
    • Microservices
    • Package by feature or component
  • Visualizing architecture
    • C4 model
    • Visual dependency analysis tools
• Data
  • CAP theorem
  • Data schema migration
  • SQL, NoSQL, NewSQL
  • SQL
    • ACID properties
    • Database normalization
    • Optimistic and pessimistic locking in SQL
    • Transaction isolation levels
• Java
  • Concurrency
  • Date and Time API
  • Equals
  • Exceptions
  • Generics
  • Interfaces
  • Java Platform Module System
  • Lambda expressions
  • Optional type
  • Overloading, overriding and method hiding
  • Streams
  • Concurrency details
    • Locking
    • Thread safety
    • Threads
• JavaScript
  • Event loop
  • Object prototypes and classes
  • Scope and closures
  • Spread syntax, rest parameters and destructuring
  • The this keyword
  • TypeScript
    • Compiler API
    • Conditional types
    • Index types
    • Nullable types and optional parameters/properties
    • Runtime type checking in TypeScript
    • Type guards
• Mindset
  • Ask the dumb questions
  • Concepts, not code
  • Fail fast
  • Hammock-driven development
  • It depends
  • It's about people
  • Keep it simple
  • Pragmatism and imperfectionism
  • Work-life balance
• Processes and techniques
  • Branch By Abstraction and application strangulation
  • Client-first design
  • Code review and collaboration workflows
  • Dealing with uncertainty
  • Feature flags
  • Issue troubleshooting
  • Managing technical debt
  • Refactoring
  • Small commits and pull requests
  • Static analysis
  • Team decision-making
  • Testing
  • Trunk Based Development
  • Testing details
    • Testing after production
    • Testing patterns
• Soft skills
  • Expectation management
• Web
  • Cookies and Web Storage
  • CSS
    • Box model
    • Browser compatibility
    • Flexbox
    • Grids
    • Inheritance, the cascade and specificity
    • Naming classes
    • Positioning
    • Responsive design
    • Sass/SCSS
    • Selectors
    • Units

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