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Read code reviews of senior developers.

I follow several public and private projects that I do not contribute at all. Any time there is a review comment on a pull request from senior devs, I try to check if it is new to me. If so, I note down the problem and suggestions.

Here are some examples:

- Aleks suggested to limit the try to the places where exceptions can be thrown and move everything else out of the try.

- Thomas suggested to use =StringBuilder= instead of =String.format=. The former is faster and more robust.

- Oscar suggested to use a =parameter object= or a =builder= when there are many (more than 3-4) parameters.




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