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Latest — Apr 16, 2025

My writing journey & how writing helped me

As per my blogging platform, this is my 100th blog post. In this post, I would like to reflect on my writing journey and pen down my thoughts on writing. While the scope of impact of writing goes beyond one's professional career, I will try to limit it

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A tale of a prediction gone wrong

This post focuses on yet another incident from my college days. It was the early 2000s, and SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol)- based services were emerging. When most of the solutions were technology/ programming language specific, integrating multiple solutions was difficult. With SOAP-based web services integration, programming languages/platform-agnostic

How Extreme Programming (XP) started my TDD journey

In a previous post, I mentioned how I happened to land in JUnit while I was trying to find implementations of design patterns. In this post, I will talk about how I could take that test automation to the next level by practising Test-Driven Development (TDD). I first learned about

My journey with the Agile India conference

Agile India is the longest-running conference I have attended for over a decade. Unfortunately, this year (2025) will be its last edition. I started attending this conference in 2012 as an attendee, and in later editions, I have also been a volunteer and a speaker. The conference had a significant

A search for design patterns that landed me in TDD

During my college days, "Design Patterns" was one of the topics that caught my attention. It wasn't part of our curriculum. The aspect of design patterns that mainly seemed very attractive to me was that by using them, a developer with less experience might be able

Groovy Elvis Operator ?:

In a previous post, I discussed the Nullish coalescing operator in JavaScript. On a related note, I thought of writing about the Elvis operator (?.) of Groovy. A good starting point would be the ternary operator. The ternary operator takes the form of <expression>? <true return expression>

Continuous Delivery vs CI/CD

I have already written about the problems with the tech jargons in general here, and here. This post is on a very particular jargon CI/CD. The software developers' community learned about this excellent practice from the book "Continuous Delivery", authored by Dave Farley and Jez Humble.

JavaScript - Nullish Coalescing Operator

Overview The nullish coalescing operator (??) was introduced in ECMAScript version 2020. It combines two expressions to return the value of the first expression if it is neither null nor undefined or returns the value of the second expression. Let's take an example to get a clear picture. let

Is ambiguity in communication a side effect of creativity?

Previously, I had written about how Jargons are not very effective in the IT industry. You might need that context to understand what I will discuss here. I saw similar concerns shared by many professionals from the industry. For example, one post talked about how people use jazzy titles such

Engineering includes Economy

One of the travel vloggers I occasionally watch recently started a new venture - an E-commerce service for unique traditional products from rural areas. In one of the videos, he mentioned that his website had crashed on launch day. He claimed the crash was due to the high load. It