Technical Leadership, Engineering Management, and Software Engineering
Excuses are easy, take ownership and drive for results
Less can be more - remove, don't add: say less, delete code, write tersely. Find the smallest things with the highest impact. The end
I have had several managers across several teams and projects. This has exposed me to various management styles and taught me what to emulate and what to avoid. There are no silver bullets when it comes to leadership however these are a few things I appreciate.
An idiomatic way to create shallow copies of arrays uses slice. This post dives into the slice method and describes a few more tips and tricks. At the end of this post you should know the output of [1,2,3].slice(-3,-1). Slice The full method signature is arr.slice(start, end). Start and end are optional parameters defaulting to 0 and arr.length respectively. … Continue reading Understanding JavaScript Array methods (2): slice
Are you working on the right problems? If no, then focus all your energies on identifying the right problem with the biggest impact.
JavaScript sort algorithm gives surprising results. Read on to learn more.
Shift and Unshift are the counterparts of Push and Pop. This post provides a deep dive into their applications.
Push and Pop are two popular methods for handling arrays in JavaScript; this short post explores both array methods.
A summary of chapter 2 of high output management
How do you drive change across difficult environments? For example, presenting radical new ideas to an unreceptive audience or collaborating with parties with opposing interests
Stop giving people answers all the time!
How to brilliantly deliver on seemingly impossible projects
This is a screenshot I took of my CPU metrics on my computer. This post provides a deep dive into the information contained in the Task Manager panel. The Graph The graph shows a sliding window plot of CPU utilization against time. Utilization: shows how much 'work' is being done by the processor. This includes … Continue reading Windows Operating System Metrics: CPU
That is the question I like to ask nowadays at the beginning of anything: a sprint, a project or a book.
5 important ideas that engineering teams need to keep in mind to optimize value delivery.
How to check for endianness using JavaScript
Tips for making learning a habit and maximizing knowledge acquisition
Constantly factoring deletes into your iterations keeps your code base healthy
My heuristic is to green-light full adoption only if the long-term benefits outweigh the costs and risks
Tips for running services at scale with minimal toil
A couple of months ago, I needed to create backups of a database dump on one of my VMs. I initially thought it would be a difficult task but was pleasantly surprised to find it easier than I thought. Despite the excellent documentation; I still needed to do some research to get my automated pipeline … Continue reading How to backup files to Azure Blob Storage from VMs using managed identities
One of the most underrated parts of working at any job is interacting with people. It is amazing how much humans achieve via collaboration and also how fast relationships can degenerate.
Some engineers believe they have to go to great lengths to eliminate every single piece of technical debt in their codebase. This focus on perfection ignores the cost of fixing debt, the risk of introducing new bugs and contagion (the chances of debt spreading).
These are a few strategies I employ to be more efficient at work.
Habits die hard It is hard to focus in a fast-paced work environment: there can be live-site incidents out of the blue; bugs to fix and meetings to attend. I have always struggled with coping with incessant demands and distractions; the urge to drop whatever I am doing and hop on the next fire is hard … Continue reading Less Work, More Impact
