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Catch Up: Lessons Senior Engineers Know about ORMs
Think you know your ORM? Discover the subtle bugs, race conditions, and performance pitfalls many engineers miss. Learn expert strategies for Rails…
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Avoid Common Elasticsearch Pitfalls
Useful Tips from building Conversations' Search at Intercom
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Race Conditions/Concurrency Defects in Databases: A Catalogue
Or, how to create bugs that are hard to find
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Get your code reviewed by Martin Fowler, kinda
I picked up Refactoring, by Martin Fowler, and I am learning a lot.
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The Nature of Software Development, by Ron Jeffries
Learnings about building Software, and Product.
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Build Systems with Speed and Confidence by Closing the Loop First!
I re-learnt something recently: the importance of closing the loop on a system you are trying to build, as quickly as possible, and then adding the…
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Intercom's Interview Process and My Experience
Based on my interview for a Product Engineering role in 2019
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Postgres: Recreating Indexes supporting Unique, Foreign Key and Primary Key Constraints
I have frequently found myself in situations when I had to reindex a few indexes (because the index got bloated a lot), and I always have to lookup the…
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Avoid breaking habits with help from Economics
Recently, while reading “How Will You Measure Your Life?”, I came across the concept of Marginal Thinking and I thought that it could be used as a…
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Why do we make irrational decisions?
We often get surprised by the decisions taken by those around us.
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On taking feedback well
A colleague and I were discussing how it is difficult to take critical feedback well.
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Don’t be the Alpha Geek: Your team deserves better
Alpha Geek?
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I write about databases and product engineering: lessons that will come handy everyday in your job. No junk, I only write when I have something substantial to share.
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