Tag: how

• 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 […]

  Priyank

  September 2, 2018

  Software Engineering

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• 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 […]

  Priyank

  August 6, 2018

  Software Engineering

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• 6 Lessons On Work Ethic I Learned In One Year Of Professional Career

  

  Time flies. Recently I had completed one year as a full-time employee at my current employer Squad. A year has passed, and I decided it was time to revisit instances, memories, and experiences and to recollect what I had learned as a professional in this past year. It was also a wake-up call to reassess and […]

  Priyank

  July 21, 2018

  Growth and Self-Development

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• Organization Archetypes And The Concept Of Market-Oriented “Solver Teams”

  Organizations which designs systems are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structure of the organization. In other words, how we organize our teams has a powerful effect on the software we produce, as well as our resulting architectural and production outcomes. Thus, in order to get a fast flow of work from […]

  Priyank

  May 5, 2018

  Uncategorized

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• 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 […]

  Priyank

  April 29, 2018

  Uncategorized

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• 7 Tips On Making Your Engineering Workflow Faster

  One of the most important thing that I like about pair programming with other awesome engineers is you get to see their workflows. How they get things done? How they get find and make their way around tools, terminal, and editors? After witnessing and getting awestruck by many such experiences I realized that having an […]

  Priyank

  April 23, 2018

  Uncategorized

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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 […]

  Priyank

  April 14, 2018

  Uncategorized

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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 […]

  Priyank

  March 11, 2018

  Uncategorized

  8, coding, deisgn pattern, design, engineer, engineering, google, how, iterate, lean, pattern, principles, product, programming, ship, software, software engineing, system, technology

• 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 […]

  Priyank

  November 19, 2017

  Uncategorized

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

• 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 […]

  Priyank

  October 15, 2017

  Uncategorized

  art, Bob, books, business, code, coding, css, design, engineering, entrepreneurship, estimate, estimates, how, learning, programming, scrum, software, story, tasks, technology, to, uncle