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Hide or Reduce: Why Modularity Abstractions Break Distributed Systems

Software engineers often default to encapsulation, hiding complex execution mechanics behind clean API boundaries. In high-concurrency distributed systems, hiding execution details masks race conditions, network latency, and non-deterministic interleavings until production failure occurs. Platform engineering leaders must teach teams to use modeling abstractions instead. Rather than wrapping…

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useState in React

When building interactive web applications with React, we often need to store values that can change over time. For example, a counter value can increase, a user's name can change, or a login status…

  • useState Hook enables functional components to create and maintain state
  • Syntax: const [ state, setState ] = useState(initialValue)
  • Direct state modifications discouraged, use setter function setState

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I Open-Sourced ApplyTrack — A Job Application Tracker for Android & Web

Hey everyone! 👋 I've been working on ApplyTrack, a job application tracker that started as one of my personal projects. Instead of leaving it as just another portfolio project, I've now turned it…

  • ApplyTrack is an open-source job application tracker for Android and web.
  • Features include offline-first experience, analytics, and cross-platform synchronization.
  • Project is hosted on GitHub with beginner-friendly contribution opportunities.

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