in – 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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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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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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May 5, 2018

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…

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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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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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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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August 17, 2016

How to detect emails, phone numbers, web URLs, hashtags in Android TextView? : SmartTextView library

Smart Text View Star On GitHub Follow On GitHub Many applications in android use TextView that detects and highlight various string patterns like emails, phone numbers, web URLs and even hashtags. This functionality is very common and and is used extensively and frequently in many app. Thus to ease the process of adding this functionality…

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June 21, 2016

Marketing Your Retail Store in the Internet Age by Bob Negen : Reading Experience

This was the book that I knew prior to reading it that it won’t be too interesting and might even feel too slow. I searched it on the internet and picked it to read to get a perspective of a retail seller. As me and my team are trying to start a company that will…

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