confidence – Priyank Verma

September 2, 2018

A plea for lean software: 6 Lessons I learned to help keep software simple

Preface Recently, I was browsing the codebase of my company and saw that it has three versions of dashboards for an analytics page in it. I am pretty sure that customers don’t need that. This sparked something in my naive brain and I started exploring the internet for related ideas. That’s when I found […]

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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 14, 2018

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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A plea for lean software: 6 Lessons I learned to help keep software simple

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

Fail Fast: Hone Your Ability to Recover and Respond Quickly