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  • April 1, 2023

    How Big Tech Companies Runs Project Management?

    If you’re looking to see which methodology your team should choose – it depends. Most tech companies don’t stick to one. In fact, various teams in same company may choose different ones or none at all. Lack of vision Good engineers leaving Lack of transparency Bad tooling The area where choosing a different methodology would…

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    categories:

    Career

    tags:

    #agile, #FAANGs, #kanban, #project-management, #scrum
  • March 20, 2023

    Why Pinterest Moved to HTTP/3?

    About a month ago (Feb 24, 2023), Pinterest published a blog that they moved to HTTP/3 HTTP/3 will help in cases of large payload transmissions such as image/video downloading. (No HOL in HTTP/3) Connection Migration across IP address, such as mobile use cases. (No Handshakes in HTTP/3) Congested network or limited bandwidth. (Less RTT in…

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    categories:

    Engineering

    tags:

    #http, #http/3, #pinterest
  • March 7, 2023

    Raft – the most popular distributed database consensus algorithm

    etcd CockroachDB TiKV InFluxDB Consul HashiCorp Kafka Dgraph It may be worthwhile to look into Raft as some of these databases are able to claim fault tolerance, high availability due to using Raft. It is also worthwhile to see the short comings of Raft as the system can go into error state if there are…

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    categories:

    Engineering

    tags:

    #architectures, #cockroach-db, #kafka, #raft
  • February 19, 2023

    Practicing Structured Communications – Bill Gates Leaked Email on Installing Movie Maker

    If you missed what “Structured Communications” is all about, please take a look here. Below is a leaked email from Bill Gates to Jim Alchin, the vice president of Consumer Division and couple of other executives. Bill Gates outlines his dissatisfaction as an end user experience when trying to install a single software called “Movie…

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    categories:

    Life Hacks

    tags:

    #communication, #microsoft
  • February 16, 2023

    Structured Communication

    Structured Communication style is an “effective” way of organising your ideas in a format that easily disperses information in a concise and easy to consume way.

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    categories:

    Life Hacks

    tags:

    #communication
  • February 8, 2023

    Monoliths to Microservices @ Khan Academy

    Khan Academy is a US Based non profit education provider that teaches math, art, software engineering for free – similar to Coursera. It is aimed towards middle school and high school students. It started as a Monolith written in Python2. In 2019, Python Software Foundation announced EOL of Python2 in 2020. The whole company faced…

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    categories:

    Engineering

    tags:

    #khan-academy, #microservices, #monoliths
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