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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…
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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…
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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…
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