Application – Priyank Verma

August 6, 2018

Acceptance Tests: The Best Medium of Communication Between Stakeholders (if done right)

It’s a nice pleasant morning, and you have just entered the office. You greet your friends and grab a cup of coffee. You check your email and there is a new story assigned to you. “As a customer, I get my usage logs backed up” This is where is fun begins. Communicating Requirements A…

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May 21, 2018

Tracking Metrics to Surface and Solve Problems: Metric Tracking Practices I’ve Learned So Far

It is a nice pleasant evening, you are sipping coffee and reviewing your code one final time, just so that you can gather enough confidence to hit the deploy button. But a fact of life as a software engineer is that things can go wrong. Small changes may result in unexpected outcomes, including outages, errors…

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April 29, 2018

Devops and The Principle Of Flow

In the technology value stream, work typically flows from Development to Operations, steps consisting of functional areas between our business and our customers. As stated in the lean principles developed by Toyota, we should optimize to get a single-piece fast and smooth flow for our releases. We increase flow by: Making work visible, Reducing batch…

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November 19, 2017

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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alpine, app, Application, coding, container, deploy, DevOps, docker, google, healing, how, in, Internet, introduction, k8s, kubernetes, minikube, nginx, scaling, self, technology, tp, tutorial, web
December 19, 2016

5 notes on MVP architecture pattern for Android

Image credits Macoscope MVP (Model View and Presenter) is an architectural pattern inspired by the popular MVC pattern. MVP addresses two main points : Make views as…

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android, android studio, Application, architecture, coding, development, fun, how, Internet, introduction, java, learning, libraries, Linux, mobile, MVC, MVP, pattern, programming, technology, to, web
March 22, 2016

Business in Boxers : 1 Month Into Running a StartUp

Why the Series? (Inspired by book : Business In Blue Jeans) Hi! This is Priyank. This series is about me pen downing my start-up ride. Don’t know if it’s fast or slow, all I really know is I’m gonna enjoy the ride. Why the name? Boxers is what you’ll find me almost every time in and…

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android, Application, Book, boxers, branding, business, experience, in, lean, marketing, pivot, programming, reading, Readings, review, series, startup, technology, web design
December 28, 2015

Practice Shapes : Android App To Learn Shapes

Only way to learn something is to learn it by yourself. Recently I have been playing with Canvas in android and it has been fun! 😀 As they say knowledge is knowing tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in vegetable basket. And best way to persist new gained “wisdom” is to put…

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android, Application, canvas, edtech, education, java, layout, pratice, programming, shapes, technology, XML
October 20, 2015

How Mobile Devices Can Change the Educational Technology and Education?

Educational technology is growing rapidly and thus is catching everyone’s attention. At the same time mobile devices are part of are lives from a long time now. Students and teachers are increasingly embracing tablets and e-book readers in their personal lives. Accessibility of educational technology is one of the biggest barrier that we are facing.…

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Application, education, mobile, technology
September 11, 2015

Making GCM client in Android and Application server in Ruby on Rails

It is always fun to play with new APIs and tools. GCM is not something I was getting my hands on for the first time but it changed completely since last time I did a project using this. But the good news is it has changed for good. New service classes makes it easier to…

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android, Application, cloud, gcm, google, java, messaging, rails, ror, ruby
September 6, 2015

Paint App in Android

Recently I was learning about Canvas and Custom views in Android and to put the theory in practice I made a pretty simple Paint App. Source code of the app can be found https://github.com/priyankvex/Paint-App-Android. The App is pretty simple with features 1. Create Drawings (Obvious one :P). 2. Select different brush sizes. 3. Eraser with…

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android, android studio, Application, canvas, drawing, git, github, java, paint, programming

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