Jeffrey Barron

I was approached by a technology company specializing in training and certification software to help them create a content build system for their product. Their web application uses a standardized XML format called DITA (Darwin Information Typing Architecture), as well as leveraging a custom markup language to generate dynamic content.

When I started building the Order Management System (OMS) demo app, I had a clear vision: create a full-stack application that would showcase modern web development practices while serving as a practical learning experience. I set out to build something that would demonstrate a successful integration of frontend and backend technologies in a meaningful way.

Let's face it: traditional technical interviews like leetcode-style challenges can feel disconnected from real-world software development. They often focus more on memorization of algorithms than on the practical, collaborative skills engineers use every day.

Congratulations! Your engineering team has grown to the point where they must take on more engineers to simply keep up with maintenance demand, let alone tackling the tsunami of new features being requested. Each new team member adds additional overhead, communication becomes harder, and you have to find a way to make things more efficient.