Sung Jin's CS Devlopemnt Blog

  The article examines the question, “is clean code by Robert Martin still matters?” From author’s 16-year coding experience, he writes about reality in writing clean code and its criticism. He acknowledges that t in the end meeting the deadline with functional and bug free code is more important then elegant code following the principle of clean code. However, he argues in the end as a developer, trying to integrate small aspects of clean code into your code base is going to make your skill improve as an engineer in the long run even if many people will not care about it. I selected this article as it addresses some uncertainty that I had with clean code. All the code I have written feels like I got pressure to deliver functional code as quickly as possible and now I’m supposed to write elegant, maintainable code so I wanted to see the real live example from experience if clean code was that necessary. The author’s real-world experience and practical approach toward the subjec...

  This article by Jeff Gothelf asks the question “Is Agile finally over?” after 20+ years of implementation to tech field. He argues that even though Agile’s widespread adaptation hasn’t got the result that Agile was intended for. Many companies claimed to be “Agile” as they copy each other, but the implementation of it was shallow or almost non-existent to make changes according to it. Therefore, he says that agile does not seems working as companies try to make employee follow set of rules instead of working in following the basic principles of Agile. He concluded that organizations need to focus on true organizational agility rather than rigid framework adoption. This article caught my attention while searching through the internet as it criticizes Agile’s current status in the business world as ideal of agile does not really fit in reality in organization experience. The vague promises and core ideas are often overlooked to the ‘wants’ of either customer or the organization...