Software Engineering

Avoiding problems is faster than solving them — “There is no greater fool than he who thinks himself wise; no one wiser than he who suspects he is a fool.” Marguerite de Valois Most developers are clever at writing code, in many situations the cleverness is a strength and a weakness. Common sense, street smarts and experience can…

Is this the beginning of the next revolution for JavaScript Framework? Apparently, YES! The paradox in web development is that more JavaScript is required to implement the features that your customers desire. However, less JavaScript is required to make your site load fast. As a developer, you will always be…

Do you think Python is slow? Here’s a fast way to loop in Python — Python is known for being a slow programming language. Although it’s a fact that Python is slower than other languages, there are some ways to speed up our Python code. How? Simple, optimize your code. If we write code that consumes little memory and storage, not only we’ll get the…

I am a senior software engineer at Google Singapore and very often I am asked about which programming language to learn — Sometimes this question manifests as “Should I learn Java, Python or JavaScript?” To be completely honest, I decided to write this article after reading a take on the same question by Eric Von Reinhard in the article “The Best Programming Language To Learn in 2022? — Google Lead Developer Explains”…

3 common mistakes junior engineers make. Are you making them? — The best engineers are 10x better than an average engineer. Like a one man army, they deliver more value, faster, by themselves, than a team of junior engineers combined. But how could that be? Isn’t more always better? In my time as an engineering lead at Netflix and Amazon, I’ve…

Imagine you are buying a car. What essential features do you need in it? A vehicle should deliver a person from point A to point B. But what we also check in it is Safety, Comfort, Maintainability, Ease of repair or Better mileage. You may also look for an electric…

All the agility has been sucked out of agile projects — Doing agile is not the same as being agile Agile projects have become bloated, lazy waterfall projects with two weeks sprints. The waterfall production line approach is suited to projects with known requirements or making widgets. Currently, agile projects are turds rolled in raisins and called roses. Any developer with…