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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…

Software Engineering

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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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July 21, 2018

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…

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April 23, 2018

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…

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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

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

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

7 Tips On Making Your Engineering Workflow Faster

Fail Fast: Hone Your Ability to Recover and Respond Quickly