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WASM Cloud

What is WASM Cloud trying to solve? Lets ask - what a typical “Development Iteration” look like? Start of with your Napkin Drawings - conceptual vision of what is it you want to build Initial Prototype, prove that it works Then, Figure out how to scale The challenge is between #2 and #3 there is more often a complete rewrite.

Rubber Duck Debugging

I have been in a similar situation multiple times - where in I was stuck on a problem. To get a solution, I would want to reach out for help. So, I would start to write it down - as it could post it in StackOverflow or send it as an email to my friend/colleague.

Software Enthusiast - Getting Started

I have been asked this question multiple times. I would like to be a software enthusiast and where do I get started. Thanks to my Friend to help put this together

Reverse ETL

While listening to Podcast stumbled upon this term of Reverse-ETL. First lets align on a few basic terminologies: What is a Data Warehouse (DW): Data Warehouse centralizes and consolidates data from multiple sources like application log files and transaction applications.

Access Control - Casbin

I was trying to read about RBAB (Role-Based Access Control) and ABAC(Attribute-Based Access Control); after some reading - I realized, as a software engineer - it’s way more easier when you get to read code - So, I started to search for open source project which implements access control infrastructure, and stumbled upon Casbin.

Premortem

Gary Klein - HBR - this article was quite intersting. I belive, this could be one of the procedures for thinking in organization - to help alleviate or provide feedback to quality of thinking.

One Percent - Per Day

Born and Brought in a middle class family in India. We are often set a goal to become the number one in the class - both by family and teachers. It is all about, topping the exams, getting the highest score, getting rank #1.

Bitmap Indexed Storage

Always been facinated by the ways - data structure’s can enable better storage and faster queries. BitMapped Indexed Storage - is useful while using Columnar Databases - where per column data is stored together.

Five Ideals of Software Development

Credits: Most of the text below are “Verbatim” notes from the book The Unicorn Project, by Gene Kim. There are times, when you read a book - it strikes you really hard/well and you would like to share it with as many people you would like.

Book - Making of a Manager, by Julie Zhuo

If you are a newly promoted manager and struggling to figure out what the job is like. Don’t worry you are not alone - this book is exclusively only for you - go get a copy and keep it on your table (I have mine).