As a professional programmer, I've been raised on a JVM diet of Java and, more recently, Kotlin. So, statically typed languages. Such languages have great characteristics, code navigation with an IDE ...

I think the biggest pitfall with programming paradigms is not picking the "wrong" one – they all have their place – but using a paradigm in a wrong way. It's a problem I've had myself and that I've se...

When trying to perform an action – especially one that changes the state of the system – in an API the request often needs to be validated. The question is, what validation should happen where? The D...