Once upon a time, there was a Sr Developer who thought he was irreplaceable. He worked for the same company since its inception. He architected the main web app and set up all infrastructure. He went through 5 CTOs, migrated from AWS to Azure and back, fixed innumerable bugs, and…

Where is DevOps going? What’s the future? What is coming next? This article is based on summarizing the fantastic work by Puppet on their report ‘The State of DevOps Report’. This report can be found on the official puppet resources page, and I’d highly recommend you read it. However, not…

There is an understated art to building good APIs — ones that are easy to integrate with, have high operational availability, offer readily attainable performance insights, and are easy to maintain. …

Install these powerful VSCode extensions to significantly improve your productivity during web development. — Visual Studio Code is one of the most widely-used source code editors out there, with over 136k stars on GitHub. Its popularity comes about due to its lightness, flexibility, open-source nature, simplicity, and extensibility. Speaking of extensibility, VSCode has thousands of extensions you can install to ramp up your developer…

Aesthetically Pleasing… After shuffling through a lot of ideas about what should be my next blog post, I decided to go with a fairly simple one this time: How to create a visually appealing GitHub Profile Readme. You all knew this was coming right? Some of you might be thinking…

You’re not alone. It’s a very common story. Working as a developer (often) goes like this: Get a new job or start a new project Spend the first few months excited, learning, and curious Reach a plateau & become bored If you’re feeling bored in your developer job, you’re not…

Save money by picking the right technology — So you got a great idea to offer a brand new service. The first step is making the right investments on a tight budget as a startup. You certainly do not want to burn your money on resources doing nothing for you. Would it not be nice if costs only…

Full form of YAML: Previously it was ‘Yet Another Markup Language’ and currently it is ‘YAML Ain’t Markup Language’. YAML is basically a data format used to exchange data. And in this, we can only store data but not commands. Data Serialization: This means a process of converting data objects…

I have been writing on Medium passively for a long time and boom suddenly one of the article went “sort of viral” — now I feel like an imposter! Backstory I have been blogging passively on Medium and my personal blog for a long time. I work full time at Google…

Razor-sharp focus on one thing, and one thing alone — software development. Does the M2 Air do the job? — This honestly feels like deja-vu. The M1 in 2020. The M1 Pro/Max in 2021, and now the M2. I’ve had more laptops go through my hands in the last two years than the previous 7 altogether. I’ve reviewed the 13” M1, the 16” M1 Pro and the 16” M1 Max…

Beyond Application Development — The advent of smartphones in 2007 by Apple with the launch of the iPhone, marked a new era for businesses as well as tech hobbyists, and although many did not know how exactly these small sophisticated devices would change the world they knew, in the course of time, it became…

Nowadays, there are a lot of different tools to work with components. Some of them help us to decrease the coupling between our code, others help us to have better communication, and some others give us a better DOM performance or teach us how to structure our files. Choosing a file naming convention The naming…

The technical lead (or tech lead) is a common role at software companies. One of the challenges in defining the tech lead job description is that the shape of the role varies widely from company to company — sometimes even from team to team. That said, everyone from product managers…

As more companies strive to deliver software faster it becomes clear what legacy processes are slowing them down, one of these is Feature Branching. The use of Feature Branches separates work, increases the size of code changes, and prevents Continuous Integration. …

TLDR: react-hook-form is a powerful library for handling form, it reduces the number of re-render because it’s embracing the uncontrolled way of handling form. You will often use useForm hook provided by the library to use its power. This hook is explained in section 2a. useForm. Validating a form in…

5 Ways Deployments Go Wrong and 5 Solutions — All happy cloud deployments are alike; each unhappy cloud deployment is unhappy in its own way. Leo Tolstoy, Site Reliability Engineer At Gruntwork, we’ve had the chance to see the cloud adoption journeys of hundreds of companies, from tiny startups to Fortune 50 giants. We’ve seen many of those journeys…

Deploying your application to production can become quite expensive on AWS if you don’t take the time to think about your infrastructure. …

Or a note-taking app like Notion or Obsidian — We’re not geniuses, duh. Unless you have a photographic memory and can remember all the language syntax and commands you’ve ever typed, including those crazy regex ones, you’d need a second (metaphorical) brain like Notion or Obsidian. No but seriously, as engineers, we absorb new knowledge on a daily basis…