Category: Tuesday Technology Thoughts

I recently completed 10 years in tech industry. There are so many people that me helped me grow as a person and engineer. I heard many horror stories

Teams have limited time and resources. There will always* be more things to do than what’s possible. Then how do teams choose what do ? many teams adopt

Every complex software system will have some edge cases. It might not be possible to enumerate all the possible edge cases in the design phase. Some will slip

When a colleague or a friend comes to you with a problem, most of the time it’s because they are so deep in the rabbit hole, they last

It has almost become a  standard practice to cache frequently used data in a distributed cache such as redis. Once a distributed cache is introduced into architecture if

Should the managers put conscious effort to drive the team ? Generally in a new startup or newly started project, there is enthusiasm in the team to deliver

Some time back there was a discussion in the cricketing community regarding bits-and-pieces players vs specialist players. The commentator felt that specialist players add more value to the

Mixing regular writes with LWT writes in cassandra on same column is a sure way to loose data. Datastax suggests that data loss can occur if LWT writes

Freshping is a free website monitoring tool provided by Freshworks. We can monitor up to 50 websites for free using freshping. In this post we will see how

It’s a common requirement to upsert (update if present, insert if not) a row in applications that have a database. This is not a big deal in NoSQL