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.
Hey, I am going to discuss how I did my yearly goal setting. This blog post is inspired by the book “The one thing”. If you are thinking about **New Year Resolutions” then this blog post may also help you. Until last year I did new year’s resolutions and it was naive in my opinion.
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.
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.
On my first dev job around a decade ago, I worked as an agile team member. Ever since every project I worked on used some variant of scrum framework like agile, broken agile, pseudo agile, etc. There is a new kid in the block called shape up which also talks about executing projects with a team. Here are some differences and similarities between scrum and shape-up.