In school we learn how to make a function that does x. In technical interviews we are asked to write a function that does x. But in a day of true software engineering, you may spend the first 30 minutes writing x and the rest of the day supporting x…

A JWT token consists of a header, body and signature. For the purpose of this article, lets combine the thought of header and body and just call that the body. The SHA 256 algorithm is a non reversable function of the body to create the signature. You can think of…

Are you a software engineer or data scientist? Especially if you are early in your career, you may think that your job is to come in, be told what model or API to build, build it and repeat. But this has a siloing effect — and is hard to get…

Are you a data scientist and want to write clean code in Python? Then you’re in the right place. There’s a lot that goes into writing good code. And as a data scientist, you’ll probably be doing a lot of R&D / PoC type work that requires you to move…

What’s the point in climbing the ladder faster if you’re climbing the wrong ladder? Maybe the hack to our productivity isn’t about finding ways to do more things more efficiently but rather taking a step back and questioning if we’re even solving the right problems to being with. A couple…