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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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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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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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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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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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