Posts with tag: development

Education and Innovation in IT

12 min

Factory of Performers: How Kazakhstan Trains 100,000 Programmers and Produces Zero Products

Ten unicorns in a country with a population smaller than Almaty. Zero in 20-million-strong Kazakhstan with billion-dollar grants, accelerators, and forums. The problem is not in the code, not in the money, and not in the people. The problem lies in the system that produces executors, not founders.

Mar 19, 2026 486 1

Education and Innovation in IT #development #programming #startup #ecosystem

24 min

TDD programmers always seemed like fanatics to me. Here's why.

Over the years, I have encountered dozens of developers who passionately advocated for TDD. They spoke about "confidence in code" and "clean architecture." Yet, when I looked at their projects, I saw bloated teams, slow development, and tons of code that no one understands. In 2014, the creator of Rails publicly buried TDD. The creator of the methodology acknowledged its limitations.

Jan 19, 2026 446

#development #architecture #team #testing

15 min

Algorithms vs Reality: Why I Gave Up on LeetCode and Don't Regret It

A few years ago, I told my colleagues that focusing on algorithms and exotic language features was a dead-end path. They didn't understand me, and during interviews, I was bombarded with questions about merge sort. But I continued on my path: front-end, back-end, DevOps, mobile, architecture. Now the market is beginning to understand the value of this approach.

Dec 11, 2025 455

#development #architecture #infrastructure #devops

Technology and Business

11 min

Microservices Are Killing Startups: Why Monolith Is the Best Choice in 2025

The team has grown fourfold, but features are released 40% slower—this is a typical result of transitioning to microservices. We analyze real cases of Cookpad and Ghost, where a monolith handles millions of requests, and provide criteria: when to break down the system and when it's shooting yourself in the foot.

Nov 29, 2025 484

Technology and Business #microservices #development #infrastructure #monoliths

Artificial Intelligence and Its Impact

22 min

Why Developers Without AI Are Losing the Competition in 2025

AI has changed web development forever. 82% of programmers use assistants, productivity has increased by 1.5-2 times, and quality has not declined. We analyze real figures, specific cases, and the best tools of 2025: GitHub Copilot, Claude Sonnet 4.5, GPT-5, Cursor. How to work correctly with AI, what to avoid, and why developers without AI lose in competition 🚀

Nov 26, 2025 520

Artificial Intelligence and Its Impact #artificial-intelligence #development #tools #productivity

5 min

Project Rescue: How I Killed 20 Microservices and Built a Modular Monolith

Microservices are not a silver bullet. A story from personal experience: how blindly following the hype led a team with 20+ microservices to failure, and why a timely assembled modular monolith turned out to be the only salvation for a project that had already been written off.

Sep 08, 2025 369

#modular-monolith #microservices #development #architecture