I'm Andrii, a PHP developer who spends way too much time thinking about architecture — and then breaking it in production anyway. This blog is where I write about the chaos behind clean code and what it actually means to build something that works.
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Every time I open some tech blog and see someone building a "recursive orchestrator for differentiated antimatter clusters," I start wondering if I'm even a real developer at all. Then I remember that one time I took down production because of an extra comma. So yeah.
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I clearly remember myself back in school, just getting into programming. That was long before my first job — I was building mobile games and writing backend scripts for their leaderboards. I did everything on my own, and almost no one ever saw my code. But even then, I was somehow
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Like most developers early in their careers, I used to think the hardest part was writing code. Designing architecture, hunting bugs, optimizing queries — that’s where the real pain is, I thought. But over the years, I learned a simple truth: all of that is just a warm-up for the
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Introduction How do you imagine the code of a true professional? Most likely, it's ultra-clean, following all the "best practices"—a well-defined structure, clear separation into contexts, layers, and domains… Everything is meticulously thought out. Now, imagine you need to launch an MVP quickly. You decide
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A Wake-Up Call: The Panic Is Already Here If you ask a random developer whether they know what DDD, TDD, or BDD is, they will most likely answer "yes." After all, understanding and applying core development paradigms is essential for a good developer. However, if you ask about