You cannot be a professional developer without an encounter with Unix/Linux systems. Linux is the preferred operating system of choice for cloud machines. SSH is a magical technology to control the cloud machine without making a trip to the data center. All said but how to install and manage software on the Linux operating systems? The answer is Package Managers.

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.

I love online courses, it resembles the computer lab at college. The recent operations issues at work demanded me to get educated to combat the sudden hiccups. Here we go, the summary of the online course by a fellow Indian.

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.

The laptop keyboard is a critical input device. It's also prone to issues like the delete button not working or few buttons here & there giving up. Here is a workaround with sharp keys software.

I had previously written about how the employees working in major Indian IT companies became accidental remote workers. Adding to the puzzle was the 20000 to 50000 INR work from home allowance given by employers to set up or upgrade work from home infrastructure. Let's understand the what, how, why about the WFH allowance.

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.

As a developer, the most confusing part of GCP are the storage options. In this blog post, I explain the data storage options with some classification that makes sense for developers.