Are you building a Maruti or a Ferrari? Over the last 20 years, I have had an opportunity to work with 0 to 1 products (made popular by Peter Thiel ), 1-10, and 10-100 products. After talking to 100s of engineers, product managers, and founders; it's very clear to me that the engineering team's communication
Why are tweets limited to 280 characters? "Oh no, Adi is in why mode!", Groaned Pratham and our family mentally started preparing for the onslaught of the word why for the next 10-15 minutes. Life is different with 10-year-olds around, they can keep asking why until you start saying "I don't know&
Manager Code Reviews: What 20 years of code reviews have taught me Many brilliant developers become engineer managers and stop coding. Even worse they stop code reviews too. I believe engineering managers and if possible senior engineering leaders should continue to do code reviews. 🏏 Managers leaving code reviews is like Rahul Dravid retiring to become Indira Nagar ka Gunda instead of mentoring
How I learned Drawing in a Year On 25 October 2020, exactly a year ago, I decided I want to start learning drawing and painting. I realized only too late that my friends had arts and drawing teachers in school. I somehow never had a drawing class growing up. [https://photos.app.goo.gl/jQLsChmmiwQWRVco7]I was
Tender Loving Care for Mobile Apps Mobile app developers- Do you love your app enough? Mobile app development has many differences when compared with web or backend development. These apps need Tender Loving Care (TLC) that web applications don't need. Mobile developers need to understand app rollout and adaption cycles. They need to build
The "Other Skills" Needed for Senior Engineers I am already good at programming and system design. How do I become a senior engineer? I get this question a lot. Here is my latest attempt to answer the question around career progressions and skills needed to move from freshmen to a junior engineer to senior engineer levels. A
Positive Impact of Code Reviews Everyone understands the importance of code reviews and in general developer community has accepted the immense value code reviews add for code quality. I want to look at the people aspects of code reviews and share my observations and tips. Junior engineers, senior engineers, and managers all benefit from code
How to find the time to learn? This seemingly simple question seems to puzzle a lot of people. In the daily rush of life where people are working hard, barely finding time for family; how can they find the time to learn? I see two distinct patterns and potential solutions to this problem: 1. Binge-watching → Timeboxing 2.
Learning method for the current times I like to learn different things. I have tried out many different methods for learning and I have arrived at a method that works really well for me. You can also use my 7 step method and learn new things; try it out and let me know if it works.
RCAs = Stable products & happy teams RCA or Post-mortem meetings for production issues are super powerful! A friend called to ask what I do for reducing outages and production downtime for my teams. I advised him to do deeper RCAs for issues. This got me thinking about RCAs and how follow-up actions from thorough RCAs contribute
