Tag: product

• 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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• 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 […]

  Priyank

  May 21, 2018

  Software Engineering

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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

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