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This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/what-i-learned-from-giving-people-a-choice-in-ride-types. How I redesigned a ride-hailing order form for 360M users inside a 7-year-old monolith. Lessons on legacy code, user habits, and breaking production. Check more stories related to programming at: https://hackernoon.com/c/programming. You can also check exclusive content about #software-architecture, #programming, #system-design, #distributed-systems, #microservice-architecture, #legacy-code, #monolith-vs-microservices, #tech-debt, and more. This story was written by: @nualimov. Learn more about this writer by checking @nualimov's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com. How I redesigned a ride-hailing order form for 360M users inside a 7-year-old monolith. Lessons on legacy code, user habits, and breaking production.

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/the-api-first-illusion-why-your-simple-endpoints-turn-into-technical-debt-and-how-to-fix-it. Stop treating API design like a plumbing task. Use this system prompt to enforce Richardson Maturity Model Level 3 and build endpoints that actually scale. Check more stories related to programming at: https://hackernoon.com/c/programming. You can also check exclusive content about #api-design, #software-architecture, #rest-api, #ai-programming, #developer-productivity, #system-architecture, #openapi-specs, #hackernoon-top-story, and more. This story was written by: @huizhudev. Learn more about this writer by checking @huizhudev's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com. In a microservices world, your API *is* the product. Bad API design isn't just ugly code; it's architectural entropy. The "Contract-First" Enforcer forces Large Language Models to stop being "code generators" and start being "specification designers"

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/heres-how-you-can-build-a-fintech-approval-system-with-symfony-74. In this article, we will build a robust Multi-Signature Approval System for a FinTech application. Check more stories related to programming at: https://hackernoon.com/c/programming. You can also check exclusive content about #symfony, #security, #fintech, #php, #productivity, #software-architecture, #fintech-approval-system, #hackernoon-top-story, and more. This story was written by: @mattleads. Learn more about this writer by checking @mattleads's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com. The symfony/workflow component has long been one of the framework’s most powerful, yet underutilized, gems. It allows developers to decouple business process logic from entity state, transforming complex “spaghetti code” status checks into clean, visualizable directed graphs. In this article, we will build a robust Multi-Signature Approval System for a FinTech application. We will explore how to configure weighted transitions, implement the entity logic, and verify the flow with rigorous testing.

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/code-smell-316-the-syntax-police-review-anti-pattern. Syntax-focused code reviews hide architecture flaws, waste human attention, and lower quality. Automating style checks lets teams review what truly matters. Check more stories related to programming at: https://hackernoon.com/c/programming. You can also check exclusive content about #clean-code, #refactor-legacy-code, #code-review-best-practices, #ai-assisted-code-review, #software-design-principles, #pull-request-review-process, #automated-linting-tools, #engineering-productivity, and more. This story was written by: @mcsee. Learn more about this writer by checking @mcsee's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com. Teams waste valuable review time debating syntax instead of evaluating architecture, intent, and risk. Automate formatting checks, raise the abstraction level, and reserve human attention for design, security, and domain alignment.

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/flight-recorder-a-new-go-execution-tracer. Flight recording is now available in Go 1.25, and it’s a powerful new tool in the Go diagnostics toolbox. Check more stories related to programming at: https://hackernoon.com/c/programming. You can also check exclusive content about #go, #golang, #golang-flight-recorder, #go-execution-traces, #hackernoon-top-story, #go-tools, #what-is-flight-recording-in-go, #go-new-execution-trace, and more. This story was written by: @Go. Learn more about this writer by checking @Go's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com. The flight recorder is just the latest addition to the Go developer’s toolbox for diagnosing the inner workings of running applications.