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A collection of 17 issues

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

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.

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

Remembering Comment Ratio

Back in my college days, I had studied the "comment ratio" metric in my Software Engineering class. It was still in use when I joined the industry, though nobody on my team gave it much importance. Comment Ratio is the ratio of the number of lines of comment

Conferences and Tech Failures

I have been speaking at conferences for about ten years now. Internet failures are common at conferences, and I have seen presenters impacted by these failures. Before speaking at conferences, I have been attending them for many years. Initially, local-first tools like PowerPoint and Keynotes were quite popular for creating

A tale of an advice gone wrong

This time, it is a story from my college days. By this time, I had owned a PC for about nine months. I had learned a few things from my experiences and failures. I was eager to offer these bits of advice to my classmates, of course, for free. I

Favour empirical evidence over extended arguments

Often, we get into extended arguments when we have to pick an optimal solution from multiple available options. Especially in the case of science and technology, gathering empirical evidence is a highly effective solution. In this post, I share my experience of a code review. This was the first piece

Accepting our shortcomings is a pre-requisite for an improvement

In the initial days of my professional career, I joined a project as a Software Engineer. Once I got access to the codebase, I started going through the codebase. The project was using JSP technology for the views (server-rendered views). A senior developer from the team was demonstrating the implementation

What is in a Jargon?

During my interactions with engineers in various training programs, I noticed a common trend - they often used the term' story point' instead of 'user story' or simply 'story'. These engineers, all graduates from reputed educational institutions and had interned at well-known software development