At least 3 out of 5 electronic goods do not work at peak performance for 5 years without a repair. Many open-source repositories go unmaintained after a few months of activity. What if every engineer takes an oath to develop products that run till the end of the earth without a major outage? What system design decisions and quality benchmarks would be needed to achieve a long shelf life of the hardware, software, services, or firmware product? Let's discuss it.

The frontend tech hiring process is not new to me but I still struggle to find the right angular developer. If the technology is a simple one like bootstrap, JQuery then the process is simple. But the Angular being a framework, it been a different game to be a part of the tech hiring panel

Back in 2015, I was reading the book Remote, office not required by Basecamp and it felt like a distant dream to work from home (WFH) even though I worked in the tech industry as an independent contributor. Due to the pandemic, almost overnight the IT employees became accidental WFH professionals. It was a good choice because the infrastructure inside and outside the office was built around the concept of Social distancing. Back to the topic, I have tweaked and adapted to my WFH lifestyle, I have enough maturity to establish the process at the new location. Download my checklist for WFH in 2021.

In this how to article, I will be discussing how we can set up a GitHub application to automatically keep our npm packages updated without breaking the app. We will also discuss the shortcomings of this application and if it's the right fit for use in production or in a team environment.

If your NPM package is composed of self Javascript code, then code rewrite or optimization is the way to go. If your npm package is composed of other JS libs which would also be a dependency of the host application, then we have some good news. Have you thought of using peer dependencies?

To implement a data structure in Javascript, we used Array or Object but things are set to change. We have 4 new entrants with ES6 or ECMAScript Harmony. They are Map, WeakMap, Set, and WeakSet. Let us look at each one of them in detail.

GET and POST are the two commonly used HTTP methods. The REST API calls can return a variety of response data types like text, array buffer, blob, document, and JSON. Let us discuss the lesser-known response datatypes in this article.

How do the stack and the queue factor into event handling? This is cryptic question that checks candidates awareness about event loop in Javascript. This is my favourite question because I can check for programming concepts like stack, queue and thinking in threads right away. Let us discuss the question further.