Santiago (Chile) in 4 days
Chile is one most remote countries in the world to visit. It is far from Europe. It is far from Asia. It is far from North America as well. And the country is deceivingly large. Unlike the USA, Canada, or […]
Too much documentation is harmful
As code changes, documentation becomes stale over time. This happens at big companies. This happens at small companies. Unlike code, documentation is not compiled or tested. The code is executed. If the code execution fails or produces incorrect results, it […]
Book Summary: The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins
The book is a memoir of John Perkins who worked as an economic hitman.
API backend should use dataloaders
Data Loaders allow transparent batching of requests to a data provider (e.g. database). More often than not, this leads to reduced latency and better performance without forcing an explicit batching of requests for the API users, for example, your frontend […]
Two days in Stockholm (Sweden)
Day 1 We started the trip with the Nobel Prize Museum, which comes with access to an interactive Audio Guide. It takes 2-3 hours to fully check it out.
Engineering stack
Most startups think of the engineering stack as if it is a single cohesive thing. However, I believe that there are three different engineering stacks that are loosely coupled to each other.
Nillion
Recently, I came across Nillion‘s whitepaper. Nillion at its core is trying to be a new decentralized encrypted data-processing layer. Here’s how it works.
Spicy vs Chilli
When Americans say spicy, they usually mean chili. For some weird reason, other spices that are more aromatic like Turmeric, cloves, cardamom, etc. do not seem to fit the definitely of “spicy”. That’s why in a typical Indian/Thai restaurant in […]
Book Summary: The Mom Test by Rob Fitzpatrick
The Mom Test is an intriguing book by Rob Fitzpatrick about how to do user research and validation of one’s product idea.
Engineering Guardrails
Guardrails are meant to protect us from tripping over. The same can be said about engineering guardrails.