The Software Development Monthly is a monthly blog post that shares interesting or useful content which I consumed during the previous month. This blog post is always published on the seventh day of the month.
Let's begin!
AI
AI Assisted Engineering With an AI Chatbot - From Idea to Working Code is my own blog post which highlights six concrete success stories from my short AI assisted engineering journey.
LLMs are bullshitters. But that doesn't mean they're not useful explains why LLMs deliver the best results when they are used to assist an expert.
Vibe Coding: The Final Form of Hyper-Individualism provides an interesting take on vibe coding and the developers who practice it.
On AI Code Reviews describes the author's experiences on using Github Copilot for code reviews.
Cloud
I Took All My Projects Off the Cloud argues that using cloud makes no sense.
Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025 is an honest postmortem of the Cloudflare outage which basically broke the internet.
Software Development
Don't sell to developers provides three tips which help us to sell our products to developers.
Architectural debt is not just technical debt argues that architectural debt spans every layer of an organization’s architecture and wrong decisions at the enterprise level can cause more damage than technical debt.
Business Value Gone Wild is a somewhat depressing blog post that explains what corporate life is like and why software built within large organizations often turns into a big ball of mud.
Null-Safe applications with Spring Boot 4 provides an introduction to the efforts which aim to reduce (or maybe even eliminate) the risk of NullPointerException in code bases which use Spring.
Don’t Refactor Like Uncle Bob (Second Edition) is a review of Uncle Bob's book Clean Code, 2nd Edition.
Arconia for Spring Boot Dev Services and Observability provides a quick introduction to Arconia which enhances the development experience and observability of Spring Boot applications.
Are you really wasting your time in Java without these 10 libraries? shares the author's opinion on 10 popular Java libraries.
On finding clients as an independent consultant identifies five ways a freelancer can find gigs even when the market has slowed down significantly.
What still fascinates me about software dev 15 years into my career identifies six things that still fascinate the author after 15 years in software development.