It's Not A Bug, It's A Feature

Content Backend Software Develo... D-Orbit Lisboa, Portugal in Candidatura simplificada Salvar Qualifications and Requirements Strong experience in Python programming (at least 3 years): Knowledge of asynchronous programming: Strong knowledge about Pythons' unit testing frameworks (preferably pytest); Experience in the use of Cython library for generation of python extensions; Strong experience in Java programming (preferable experience in Kotlin): Experience in maintaining Java based web applications: Strong experience in C programming; Strong experience in the use and design of REST APIs; Strong experience on event-driven architectures (pubsub pattern); Strong familiarity with Git distributed version control system; Strong experience of the use of commandline of the Linux based operating systems; Strong experience in debugging distributed applications potentially running in remote environments: Experience in agile development methodologies (e.g.. Scrum, TDD); Experience with applications that handle large datasets: Experience in implementing caching mechanisms (i.e., using Redis); Experience in NoSQL databases such as Cassandra and Redis; Experience in relational databases, namely PostgreSQL: Experience using Kafka, MQTT and Redis as message brokers: Experience in cloud-based environments, namely AWS; Experience in the definition and use of Docker containers; Experience in orchestration of docker containerized microservices using Kubernetes; Some experience in working under DevOps oriented methodologies: Pipeline definition: Test execution automation; Some experience in web application development using the microservices architectural paradigm; Experience in designing web-based applications considering the need for scalability, reliability and security; Experience with Jira framework: Experience of bash shell scripting; Experience in JavaScriptTypescript: Experience in authentication and authorization mechanisms; Experience with event bus technologies (e.g., Kafka);

The ENTIRE TRAGIC EXISTENCE of a programmer summed up in one image! 😭 We start as innocent babes, then BOOM—middle age hits and we're screaming "I DON'T KNOW WHY THIS CODE ISN'T WORKING!" while pulling our hair out. Then the ULTIMATE BETRAYAL happens! Just when we finally get our code working, we have absolutely NO IDEA why it's working! And then we DIE. That's it. That's the whole programmer lifecycle. No glory, no understanding—just confusion from cradle to grave! The yellow line of despair just keeps plummeting downward like our will to live during a production outage!

Ah, the classic "it works but I have no idea how" scenario! The bird drawings perfectly capture the chaos of software development. You start with a well-designed bird (your initial clean code), then it gets progressively more abstract yet somehow still flies (functions). Every developer has experienced that moment when your code resembles the bottom-left bird - a tangled mess of spaghetti logic, nested if-statements, and emergency patches - yet somehow it still performs its core function like the bird on the bottom-right. The true horror isn't that it works despite looking like a nightmare - it's that nobody dares refactor it because it might stop working altogether! Ship it to production anyway!

The endless cycle of software development in four painful panels. QA finds a bug that shouldn't exist ("a circle in the triangle factory"), escalates to junior devs who escalate to senior devs, who finally check it out... only to casually announce "I guess we doin' circles now." No discussion, no documentation, no questions asked. The feature that was once a bug is now a roadmap item! This is basically how half the "features" in your favorite software came to exist. No wonder tech debt is the only thing growing faster than AWS bills.

The FIVE STAGES OF PROGRAMMER GRIEF , darling! 💅 First, you write code with the AUDACITY of someone who thinks they're competent. Then you execute it with the BLIND OPTIMISM of a puppy chasing its tail. Next comes the CATASTROPHIC MELTDOWN where your entire existence crumbles because you forgot a semicolon. Your code becomes your emotional twin - COMPLETELY BROKEN. Finally, you curl up in the fetal position on the floor because your compiler has PERSONALLY BETRAYED YOU and no one - NO ONE - understands your suffering. The circle of life, but make it debugging! 💻✨

THE ABSOLUTE TRAGEDY of printf debugging in four acts! 😭 First, you confidently place your debug statement: "I'm here." Then the AUDACITY of your code to make you add "Here 1" and "Here 2" as you desperately try to narrow down where your program is imploding. And the GRAND FINALE? That pot of pure chaos showing your entire codebase vomiting error messages like a digital exorcism! Who needs fancy debuggers when you can just DROWN YOUR SORROWS in console output and pray to the coding gods that something makes sense?! The debugging equivalent of screaming into the void and having the void scream back with stack traces!