I'm like you; an engineer. I write about my own experiences and observations on system design and architectures.
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Whenever something feels like magic, it means I don't fully understand it. To truly grasp and improve things, I must go beyond the surface and examine the underlying machinery.
There is a surge of modern JavaScript libraries whose whole goal is to deal with HTML instead of JSON. Apparently, this makes the whole development process simpler and much more productive.
We have an export feature that can build an Excel file over the course of many background jobs. Worked beautifully for years. Man, those were the days.
The LoB principle dictates that the behavior of a unit of code should be as obvious as possible by looking only at that unit of code. But I think something is missing from this discussion.
