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Fail Fast: Hone Your Ability to Recover and Respond Quickly
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Practical Problem Solving Framework: Inspired By The Toyota Way
We all will agree to a certain point that having a system/process for anything reduces chances of errors. As an engineer or someone people look forward to propose solutions to problems it’s beneficial to have a framework in place to solve problems effectively. Recently I was reading The Toyota Way, and it suggested a framework to Practical Problem…
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8 System Design Principles I learned After Doing It Wrong More than 50 Times!
At Squad, we strive to build awesome products to solve customer(internal and external) needs. As a product engineer, paramount part of your job is to design and build products. Dig deep into the root cause of the problems, design solutions and implement them as the end product. Over the course of my journey so…
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Introduction to Ingressing With Kubernetes
Single responsibility is a magical notion. Whatever it touches, it makes it more manageable and efficient. With Kubernetes, we have the power to spawn many services. As many of them as we would like. But how inbounds requests are routed among these services? Ingressing is a powerful way to decouple routing rules with core application logic. According…
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2018, New Year: Let’s Set The Rhythm For What Lies Ahead
Here are the 9 things I would love to incorporate into my life as I set myself to see the sun of 2018. 1. Stop chasing the long dream, start conquering the micro-goals: Start cultivating a passionate dedication to the pursuit of short-term goals, being micro ambitious. Putting my head down and work with pride,…
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Basics Of Kubernetes Volume Management : Mounting a simple hostPath directory
Kubernetes is a system for automating deployment, scaling, and management for containerized applications. As we know, containers, which create the Pods, are ephemeral in nature. All data stored inside a container is deleted if the container crashes. However, kubelet will restart it with a clean state, which means that it will not have any of…
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Deploying a nginx application using Kubernetes for Self-Healing and Scaling
Kubernetes is an open source system for automating deployment, scaling and management of containerized applications. A more technical term for it is, container orchestrator which is used to manage large fleets of containers. Minikube is an all-in-one single node installation for trying out kubernetes on local machines. And the following post covers deploying a nginx…
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Estimation Peril: How To Estimate Software Projects Effectively(or How Not To Lie)
Consider, you are a rockstar engineer and you are given a task by your favorite person, your project manager, to show some new fields in the dashboard. As usual, you are asked to estimate it as soon as possible. You think that well, seems like a quickie and you are tempted to estimate it a…
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Clean Code Chapter 1&2: Clean Code & Meaningful names
I have started reading the book Clean Code by Robert C. Martin, which is considered to be a industry standard for writing maintainable and elegant code. Because this book is such a heavy read, and each chapter is full of content and a knowledge bank in itself, for personal reference I’ve decided to summarise each chapter in…
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The Alchemist : Reading Experience
Reading The Alchemist was like getting up at dawn and seeing the sun rise, while the whole world slept. The Alchemist doesn’t teach you anything, but you can learn a million things from it. “Lead will play its role until the world has no further need for the lead, and then the lead will have to turn…