It was an ordinary day. I was out and about in my building’s residential gym, cranking out yet another workout. I was quite breathless, finishing my last few sets, when it happened. He walked in. A guy wearing jeans, a polo shirt, and a pair of work sneakers. …

I gotta get up and do something productive, I thought to myself. This recurring thought seems to occupy my mind every time I’m not actively engaging in something productive like work or working out. Sometimes, I do manage to get up and do something productive, and I get some relief…

PromQL. No matter how good you are, there will come a time when it’ll make you want to bang your head against the keyboard and beg for mercy. However, today is NOT that day my friends. Today, we learn! So… how do they work? The Difference Between Increase() And Rate() Increase() Let’s start with increase() as it…

An honest take on AI’s impact on the job market and our lives — The Current State of Affairs This post doesn’t really need a preface. Literally, everyone, including my future mother-in-law (who’s still asking me to help her write one-line emails) has heard about or even actively used AI. What was until quite recently the realm of a chosen few and the subject of frightening news articles like…

In the beginning, there were scripts and configuration files Every developer that’s been around the cloud ecosystem for a while, knows how life-changing it was to transition from error-prone scripts (or worse yet, manually working with your favorite cloud provider’s UI), to 1st generation IAC tools like CloudFormation and Terraform. However, that approach wasn’t really infrastructure as code. It…

Tips to keep your software engineering features balanced — Have you ever heard of the Waterbed Theory? I’m assuming you’re all familiar with waterbeds. Waterbeds may be quite amusing, but the main issue (at least with the inexpensive models) is their stability. If you sit on one side of it, the other side gloriously rises up to compensate. You…

Brought to us by the inventor of AngularJS (and a few of his friends), Qwik seems to be the O(1) JS framework we were all waiting for. Now, it’s worth mentioning. Qwik won’t solve all of your problems. if you’re working on a data-intensive application that is only available to…

Don’t wait for the postmortem to learn from your mistakes — We all know that planning is important. Those who fail to plan are planning to fail. Or so the saying goes. There’s just one problem. Even if we plan, we plan while implicitly assuming the “happy flow.” …

Behind all APIs resides a lower-level cousin, a different kind of beast: the ABI — Application Binary Interface — Why Should You Care? Well, I don’t have a very good answer here other than my belief that learning the ins and outs of our profession makes us better developers. It also tends to awaken our curiosity, which is always a good thing. What Are ABIs? To understand ABIs, let’s remember for a second what an API…