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10 inspiring thoughts from developers guide book by John Somnez

· 6 min read
D Balaji
Lead Design Technologist

book praise

John somnez is the software developer guru who writes books and creates content for other developers. He is prolific, brilliant, and healthy at the same time. Needless to say, he is someone who can work 18 hours a day for years. His book is like Gita for developers. Here are 10 inspiring ideas that caught my attention. The complete software developers career guide is a fantastic read.

Simple feature switch ReactJS component in 5 lines of code

· 3 min read
D Balaji
Lead Design Technologist

React component code

Let us say your product is planning to introduce an experimental feature. Your customer may or may not like the feature. In this case, you may have to turn off the feature for some users & turn it on for the rest. This is called A/B testing. But how to build components to conditional render the content. We can build feature-switch components.

Cache busting GET calls with cache-control headers

· 7 min read
D Balaji
Lead Design Technologist

cache calls

One of the performance optimization techniques is to serve data from the cache and lookup for the network if the cache fails. It's called cache first then network strategy. Life moves fast and if the API has to get updated information, it's impossible because we are reading the cache always. Is there a way to bypass cache in this setup? Yes, it's cache-control headers.

How to refine your WFH etiquette

· 3 min read
D Balaji
Lead Design Technologist

work from home

The office bees were asked to work from home in March 2020. It means with no prior experience employees are expected to do something as part of a team. Here are 3 things which you should do as part of WFH etiquette.