A curious backend engineer based in Austria

In agentic engineering iterative prompting is a useful first step to reach a solution. Once a workflow is verified and clear, it should be transformed into repeatable software.

While I am a big fan of automated tests and TDD, I have seen code bases that were unnecessarily difficult to change, because of sub-optimal tests. The following list contains the 7 most common problems I have seen in such test suites.

While DynamoDB does not directly support join operations like a relational database, we are still able to model relations and to perform complex queries on them via a single-table design.