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Maciej Palczyński

Junior Software Engineer

Maciej Palczyński is a junior software engineer and author on CodiLime's blog. Check out the author's articles on the blog.

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Golang code refactoring: Best practices and a practical use case

Anyone working as a software engineer has experienced diving into existing code written by another person or team. Despite many articles, courses, and blog posts that emphasize the need to write clean and tested code, the reality never really lives up to the idealistic picture presented to us. Inexperience and deadlines, among many other reasons, can leave code repositories with suboptimal documentation, resulting in a constant need for refactoring and a growing to-do list. In this blog post, I would like to invite you to take a peek at the ongoing development of one such repository my team has inherited.