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Strive to learn : 8 Ways to optimize for learning at work as a software engineer
A large open space with amazing ergonomic chairs where people discuss and execute upon disrupting ideas. It’s right next to company’s game room where you unwind after a hard work day. Here is we as engineers, get to work on products that our customers love and we love delivering that delight by continuous delivery (or…
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Practical Problem Solving Framework: Inspired By The Toyota Way
We all will agree to a certain point that having a system/process for anything reduces chances of errors. As an engineer or someone people look forward to propose solutions to problems it’s beneficial to have a framework in place to solve problems effectively. Recently I was reading The Toyota Way, and it suggested a framework to Practical Problem…
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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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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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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…
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The Blue Ocean Strategy : How To Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant
When Henry Ford made cheap, reliable cars people said, ‘Nah, what’s wrong with a horse?’ That was a huge bet he made, and it worked. The whole idea of The Blue Ocean Strategy is to create uncontested market spaces that creates new demands and make the competition irrelevant. The book describes Red Oceans as known…
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Learning How To Learn : Course Experience
The human brain has 100 billion neurons, each neuron connected to 10 thousand other neurons. Sitting on your shoulders is the most complicated object in the known universe. What is learning? Well basically, forming and consolidation neural patterns. Recently I took the course “Learning How to Learn” on Coursera. I really wanted to figure out…
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5 notes on MVP architecture pattern for Android
Image credits Macoscope MVP (Model View and Presenter) is an architectural pattern inspired by the popular MVC pattern. MVP addresses two main points : Make views as…
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Business In Boxers 3 : The Psychological Roller Coaster
One of my favorite things about instrumental music is that the listener is encouraged to use his or her imagination. I have been a huge Owl City and Adam Young fan since forever. Lately he is releasing sets of instrumental music called as Adam Young Scores inspired by incidents that made a lasting impression on the…