Have you ever read or heard about news where organisations got hacked due to hardcoded data in the code? Following are a few examples - Uber hack — hardcoded secrets in the PowerShell script. Toyota data leak Applications leaking AWS credentials Other more common problems that developers and organizations frequently…

After taking hundreds of developer interviews over the last ten years, I have realized that the available literature on programming, data structure, algorithms, system design and computer science, in general, has seen massive improvements. Most importantly, the content is easily accessible for free. The primary source of knowledge for learning…

Building technology product is a complex process. Building products for a particular use case while working in a fast-growing startup is even more challenging. In most cases, you have either ship product quickly or risk failure in that market. Over the last few years, I had numerous conversations with developers…

Microservices is one of the most searched topics on the internet by developers. Unfortunately, most of the content available tends to lean on implementing microservices in one language/framework. The topic is mainly covered from the lens of a single developer or a single product (or maybe two) experiences. The problem…

Live audio applications such as Clubhouse saw a big boom in adoption during the covid-19 lockdown. This sudden growth inspired a lot of other companies to introduce their own live audio/video products or features. In a few months, it became one of the most requested features in not only social…

Notifications are the lifeblood of all mobile applications. If a non-popular app stops sending notifications, people tend to forget it’s even installed on their phones. In most cases, the type of notifications sent by the apps fall under two different categories - Transactional notifications — To update you about some…