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Fail Fast: Hone Your Ability to Recover and Respond Quickly
It’s close to midnight and you are about to wrap your day off. Suddenly you get a pager-duty to resolve a critical bug that’s failing some of the automated reporting emails. You go on to check the logs in the log management tool. This is not the ideal time to find out that logs are not…
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Strive to learn : 8 Ways to optimize for learning at work as a software engineer
A large open space with amazing ergonomic chairs where people discuss and execute upon disrupting ideas. It’s right next to company’s game room where you unwind after a hard work day. Here is we as engineers, get to work on products that our customers love and we love delivering that delight by continuous delivery (or…
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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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