Found this good list while browsing the internet as the ‘Subtle Rules of Software Engineering’. These kinds of lists float around often, but this one felt especially thoughtful and more practical. Lists like this are both inspiring and… a little maddening. The advice is good. But like most software engineering principles, they occasionally pull in different directions. For instance: “Always …
This is script/project started when three of my friends ended up losing their domain simply because they forgot to renew the domain. It is a helpless situation to recover a lost domain and the ‘techie’ inside me realized I had to do something. Especially when I’m making more and more folks from my team to write on their own domain. …
When I started building HackerRank, I was expecting to get promoted (rather pushed) from an SDE to CTO. I was expecting the change and it wasn’t so bad. Since we acquired customers at a steady rate, I had the bandwidth to learn from my mistakes. We were extremely apologetic whenever something went wrong with our customers and made sure we …
This is my first tech talk after a long while. It was fun to have an open conversation about the various steps we took to scale our infrastructure and reduce the cost. The discussion was about the top 10 things we’ve learnt/implemented over the last years. Start Small – Starting small when building the infrastructure with AWS. Queues solve most …