- Essence of a code review When the code is flowing, easy to read, easy to follow, and easy to understand, the reviewer does not notice the code at all – the code is good.
- Practices leading to Enhanced Developer Productivity Notifications, Meetings, Emails, Interruptions are some of the major developer’s productivity killers. Great managers know and try to obliterate them. Bad managers cause them!
- Motivation, Terms and Tools for Distributed Systems Sincere and honest development of one’s potential – it does not apply only on us but also on the things we build. When demand goes up the supply must also match, failing which can be chaotic. Capacity for expansion and growth is vital for survival of not only ours but also of our creations. We need to ensure that our software is scalable.
- Concurrency and it's forms Thinking about concurrency is vital to writing correct, scalable, and performant software. However, the successful application of concurrency is a perfect mix of theory and practice. Concurrency is a great way to get more stuff done faster. Due to limitations in heat dissipation technology, Moore’s Law hit practical limits over a decade ago and the only way computing has progressed has been to cram more cores onto a die, and/or use more CPUs. And Amdahl’s Law has ruled ever since
- Healthy Agile Healthy Agile: What it is - Short cycles, Adaptive process, Transparency. What it is not - Ticket Counts, Micromanagement, Mandatory Meetings
- Quips to Ponder Words of wisdom, culled from various places
- My Favorite TED Talks I like the inspiration or information packed short videos a great deal and what’s a better place for it than the TED Talks, the introductory music and clapping itself gets my adrenaline rush.
- A Look at Redis 4.0 With the release of 4.0, Redis comes with a long list of much sought-after improvements, let’s take a look at the major items in the improvements list and know what it means
- Say Hello to p5js p5js provides way to create complex interactions compatible across devices with remarkable ease
- Essential Studies in ES8 ECMAScript 2017, 8th edition (ES2017/ES8) has been released in June 2017. Since the standard is evolving as open source project, the change requests are actively being made, monitored and adopted by the community as proposals in ES.Next (a dynamic name that refers to whatever the next version is at time of writing). All of the changes in ES8 are available with Node 8 and with the latest version of browsers without babel or any polyfills. Let’s figure out some important changes…