Career Growth (281)

My learnings and notes from 10+ years of experience on how to become a better engineer and accelerate the career growth.

6 blogs • 272 notes • 3 videos

2026

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Sep 01

NOTE Choose a Depth, Not a Duration, To Navigate Rabbit Holes

Career Growth #career-growth #curiosity #depth-boxing
Aug 21

BLOG Slop Debt

Career Growth #career-growth #consistency #devops-and-testing
Aug 19

NOTE Self-editing agents face Ship of Theseus task drift

Career Growth #ai-systems #ai-agents #career-growth
Aug 14

NOTE Fast Stores Can Mask Per-Item State Check Performance Issues

Career Growth #distributed-systems #access-patterns #batching
Aug 13

NOTE Visual Prototypes Offer Superior Product Specification Over Design Documents

Career Growth #software-engineering #ai-agents #career-growth
Jul 27

NOTE Employ Social Proof to Ensure Your Professional Ideas Are Heard

Career Growth #career-growth #external-validation #idea-acceptance
Jul 25

NOTE Building AI for Augmentation Creates Simpler and More Practical Systems

Career Growth #ai-systems #agentic-systems #ai-agents
Jul 16

NOTE Companies Hire Senior Engineers to Re-Solve Familiar Problems Efficiently

Career Growth #career-growth #career-impact #leadership
Jul 14

NOTE Direct Your Effort Towards Genuine Impact and Clear Personal Goals

Career Growth #career-growth #adaptability #goal-clarity
Jul 09

NOTE An Ideal Career Concludes With Five Dimensions Equally Balanced

Career Growth #career-growth #burnout #career-balance
Jul 05

NOTE Struggling While Learning Is Proof You Are Doing It Right

Career Growth #career-growth #confusion #learning-struggle
Jun 30

NOTE Optimizations Are Trades Made Within Constraints With No Free Lunch

Career Growth #career-growth #concurrency #concurrency-control
Jun 25

NOTE Effort and Intensity, Not Time, Determine Skill Acquisition

Career Growth #career-growth #clock-synchronization #effort
Jun 24

NOTE Leverage Curiosity or Fear to Boost Your Productivity Levels

Career Growth #career-growth #curiosity #fear
Jun 23

NOTE Resist Rewarding Shortcuts That Undermine First Principles Thinking

Career Growth #career-growth #cognitive-habits #first-principles-thinking
Jun 21

NOTE Owning Up to Mistakes Accelerates Learning and Builds Professional Trust

Career Growth #career-growth #accountability #leadership
Jun 19

NOTE Higher Compensation Limits Job Options But Demonstrable Impact Creates Opportunities

Career Growth #career-growth #career-choices #higher-compensation
Jun 17

NOTE Overcome Feeling Stuck By Prioritizing and Taking Action

Career Growth #career-growth #overwhelm #prioritization
Jun 12

NOTE Always Make Your Skills Visible To Secure Deserved Opportunities

Career Growth #career-growth #career-opportunities #self-promotion
May 28

NOTE Improving Engineer Skills In Listening, Communication, And Empathy

Career Growth #career-growth #active-listening #clear-communication
May 27

NOTE Leverage Self-Doubt to Drive Learning and Deeper Exploration

Career Growth #career-growth #confidence #growth
May 15

NOTE Designing Systems for Failure Ensures Graceful Error Handling and Quick Recovery

Career Growth #distributed-systems #career-growth #design-for-failure
May 15

NOTE Sound Confident and Trust Yourself Because Everything Is Figureoutable

Career Growth #career-growth #confidence #problem-solving
May 12

NOTE Cultivate Strong Relationships and Empathy to Prioritize Your Tasks

Career Growth #career-growth #appreciation #building-relationships
May 11

NOTE Artificial Intelligence Now Writes and Runs My API Tests

Career Growth #software-engineering #api-testing #career-growth
May 11

NOTE Make code reviews your P0 task to unblock teammates quickly

Career Growth #career-growth #blocked-momentum #code-review
May 07

NOTE Simplify Tasks by Thinking Backwards from Your Desired Outcome

Career Growth #career-growth #backward-thinking #building
Apr 26

NOTE Four Strategies to Build Strong Mental Models for Better Learning

Career Growth #career-growth #connecting-knowledge #first-principles
Apr 24

NOTE Professional Composure Shifts Workplace Dynamics When Confronting Arrogance

Career Growth #career-growth #collaboration #composure
Apr 22

NOTE Crashing immediately on startup prevents late-run fixable issues

Career Growth #distributed-systems #career-growth #configuration-validation
Apr 20

NOTE Clear Goals and Visible Outputs Energize Work and Prevent Burnout

Career Growth #career-growth #burnout #goal-setting
Apr 11

NOTE It Depends Must Be Followed By Explanation

Career Growth #distributed-systems #consistency #databases
Apr 08

NOTE Asking for Advice Rather Than Feedback Is More Effective

Career Growth #career-growth #advice #feedback
Apr 07

NOTE Giving More Talks is the Only Way to Improve

Career Growth #career-growth #leadership #productivity
Apr 01

NOTE Forming a Career Thesis

Career Growth #career-growth #career-advice #career-planning
Mar 30

NOTE Inbox Zero Builds Trust Through Reliability

Career Growth #career-growth #communication #devops-and-testing
Mar 26

NOTE Cultivating Curiosity When Your Beliefs Are Challenged

Career Growth #career-growth #beliefs #curiosity
Mar 23

NOTE Do not keep looking for beginner-friendly content, because for harder topics, there is none.

Career Growth #career-growth
Mar 16

NOTE Fundamentals Still Matter, Despite AI Handling Implementation

Career Growth #career-growth #ai #fundamentals
Mar 12

NOTE The Value of Spiky Teams in the Tech Industry

Career Growth #career-growth #candidate-assessment #databases
Mar 11

NOTE Boredom as a signal to find a harder problem

Career Growth #career-growth #boredom #motivation
Mar 09

NOTE Clarity is the difference between a good design doc

Career Growth #career-growth #clear-communication #communication
Mar 05

NOTE Don't Use Chat For Critical Decision Documentation

Career Growth #career-growth #chat-tools #concurrency
Mar 03

NOTE Software Engineering Becomes Project Management Without Innovation

Career Growth #career-growth #bureaucracy #innovation
Feb 24

NOTE Wrote a deep dive on how databases actually execute JOINs

Career Growth #career-growth
Feb 20

NOTE Today, I was going through a GitHub blog from 2017,

Career Growth #career-growth
Feb 11

NOTE In 2022, I started exploring database internals out of pure

Career Growth #distributed
Feb 09

NOTE Venting Can Hurt Your Reputation at Work

Career Growth #career-growth #leadership #reputation
Feb 08

BLOG Why Half Your Skills Expire Every Few Years

Career Growth #career-growth #productivity
Jan 28

NOTE The Wisdom of Choosing What You Can Ignore

Career Growth #career-growth #attention-management #focus
Jan 26

NOTE Intentionally Go Deep Based on Curiosity and Career

Career Growth #career-growth #abstraction-layers #career-direction
Jan 19

NOTE Toxic productivity and the need for sustainable rest

Career Growth #career-growth #burnout #productivity
Jan 18

NOTE Delusional People Win by Building at Speed of Thought

Career Growth #career-growth #building #consensus
Jan 13

NOTE Curiosity Alone Does Very Little Unless Applied

Career Growth #career-growth #curiosity
Jan 11

NOTE Thinking Is a Habit, Not an Innate Talent

Career Growth #career-growth #habit #thinking
Jan 04

NOTE Software Knowledge Decay Requires Weekly Learning Investment

Career Growth #career-growth #half-life #knowledge-decay
Jan 03

NOTE We all have a negativity bias.

Career Growth #career-growth

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Dec 29

NOTE If you are looking for a New Year's resolution, here's a good one.

Career Growth #career-growth
Dec 22

NOTE If there was one sci-fi book you should read this year, it has to be Project Hail Mary.

Career Growth #career-growth
Dec 15

NOTE Bureaucracy takes over when innovation runs out.

Career Growth #career-growth
Dec 15

NOTE I never understood the need for a granular planning of projects.

Career Growth #career-growth
Dec 14

NOTE Recently, I finished reading 'The Book of Clarity' by Paras Chopra!

Career Growth #career-growth
Dec 12

NOTE As engineers, you will always be tempted to go down the rabbit hole while reading anything dense, be it a paper, blog, or book

Career Growth #career-growth
Dec 01

NOTE A simple check I use: if I imagine myself a year from now, will I wish I had stopped doing this sooner?

Career Growth #career-growth
Nov 24

NOTE Risk is part of building meaningful things.

Career Growth #career-growth
Oct 24

NOTE If you think you've made a bad career decision, fix it.

Career Growth #career-growth
Oct 16

NOTE The best plan A has a great plan B standing behind it.

Career Growth #career-growth
Oct 14

NOTE It's not about how many times someone succeeds, but how costly it is for them to fail.

Career Growth #career-growth
Oct 01

NOTE Complete the course, playlist, or roadmap you've already started before jumping to the next shiny new resource.

Career Growth #career-growth
Sep 25

NOTE When Emotions Spill Over at Work

Career Growth #career-growth #leadership #productivity
Sep 22

NOTE Meetings With No Agenda Are a Waste of Time

Career Growth #career-growth #leadership
Sep 18

NOTE Growth Isn't About Doing Everything

Career Growth #career-growth #leadership #system-design
Sep 15

NOTE If you really want to learn or achieve something, you will find a way.

Career Growth #career-growth
Sep 13

NOTE Career Longevity Beats Constant Job Hopping

Career Growth #career-growth #productivity
Sep 01

NOTE Should You Do a Master's My Honest Take

Career Growth #career-growth
Aug 23

NOTE Most people fall into a hollow productivity trap and think they are actually productive.

Career Growth #leadership
Aug 19

NOTE My research paper just got published 🎉, and we were

Career Growth #career-growth
Aug 11

NOTE How can you not know this?

Career Growth #leadership
Jul 29

NOTE Empathy Makes Great Engineers Unstoppable

Career Growth #career-growth #communication
Jul 24

NOTE ULIDs are great, but they are not the ultimate ID

Career Growth #career-growth
Jul 24

NOTE You are only as good as the last problem you solved.

Career Growth #career-growth
Jul 21

NOTE Good Mentors Build People, Not Just Skills

Career Growth #career-growth
Jul 14

NOTE Why You Should Always Have Back-Burner Projects

Career Growth #career-growth #communication #leadership
Jul 07

NOTE productivity hack: do not sign in to YouTube or social accounts on office machines, and notice how much time you save and how focused you become.

Career Growth #career-growth
Jun 30

NOTE Before You Push Back, Know What You're Standing On

Career Growth #career-growth #communication #productivity
Jun 27

NOTE Writing a Design Document Improves Project Ideas

Career Growth #career-growth #design-document #project-idea
Jun 23

NOTE Be the One They Can Count On

Career Growth #career-growth #communication #fault-tolerance
Jun 16

NOTE How Much Are People Willing to Bet on You

Career Growth #career-growth #leadership
Jun 13

NOTE Everyone tells you to dig deeper, and

Career Growth #career-growth
Jun 12

NOTE Curiosity-driven development is the best approach to software

Career Growth #software-engineering #curiosity-driven-development #software-development
Jun 10

NOTE How to Get Leadership to Say Yes to Your Project

Career Growth #career-growth #leadership
Jun 02

NOTE Don't Let Your Best Ideas Die in Silence

Career Growth #career-growth #communication #leadership
Jun 02

NOTE Retention is the worst way to measure understanding.

Career Growth #career-growth
May 26

NOTE Be the Person Everyone Wants to Work With

Career Growth #career-growth #communication
May 22

NOTE The XY Problem and How to Avoid It

Career Growth #career-growth
May 16

NOTE You Won't Be Promoted Unless You Ask

Career Growth #career-growth #leadership
May 12

NOTE It's Not Enough to be Right; Learn to be Heard

Career Growth #career-growth #leadership
Apr 26

NOTE Phone on silent mode + thrown in another room.

Career Growth #career-growth
Apr 25

NOTE A good question to ask yourself: a year from now, what will you regret about something you're doing today?

Career Growth #career-growth
Apr 23

NOTE No One Ships Great Software Alone

Career Growth #career-growth #communication
Apr 15

NOTE If you're only learning while preparing for interviews, something's fundamentally off.

Career Growth #career-growth
Apr 14

NOTE Don't waste time finding the best resource, because the best resource is mythical 💥

Career Growth #career-growth
Apr 14

NOTE You Don't Win by Proving Others Wrong

Career Growth #career-growth #communication #leadership
Apr 10

NOTE Setting Up Engineering Teams for Quantifiable Impact

Career Growth #leadership #career-development #engineering-leadership
Apr 09

NOTE Appreciate Generously; It Costs Nothing, But Builds Everything

Career Growth #career-growth #communication #leadership
Mar 28

NOTE If some event is important, it will reach your ears, maybe eventually, but it will.

Career Growth #career-growth
Mar 25

NOTE Not all books are worth your time to complete.

Career Growth #career-growth
Mar 24

NOTE Your Soft Skills Aren't Soft at All

Career Growth #career-growth #communication
Mar 21

NOTE Before you form an opinion, experience it

Career Growth #career-growth #communication #productivity
Mar 18

NOTE Why You Need Both Curiosity and Action to Thrive

Career Growth #career-growth #productivity
Mar 10

NOTE A Daily Worklog Changed Everything

Career Growth #career-growth
Mar 06

NOTE How We Handle Mistakes Defines Us

Career Growth #career-growth
Mar 06

NOTE Own Your Mistakes

Career Growth #career-growth
Mar 04

NOTE Don't Wait. Step Up.

Career Growth #career-growth #leadership
Feb 25

NOTE Temporary Fixes Are Permanent

Career Growth #career-growth
Feb 25

NOTE When I interview engineers about estimating database size, they get

Career Growth #career-growth
Feb 24

NOTE The more you learn, the easier it gets.

Career Growth #career-growth
Feb 20

NOTE spent some time digging deeper into AVX2 - a SIMD

Career Growth #career-growth
Feb 19

NOTE disagreements without data are just opinions.

Career Growth #career-growth
Feb 18

NOTE Why Interviews Are Biased And What Sets You Apart

Career Growth #career-growth #fault-tolerance #interviews
Feb 18

NOTE math is more beautiful when you can visualize it

Career Growth #career-growth
Feb 11

NOTE Saying 'This isn't my problem' is actually the problem

Career Growth #career-growth #code-review
Feb 07

BLOG How to Write Effective OKRs

Career Growth #career-growth
Feb 04

NOTE Never Lose a Battle due to Miscommunication

Career Growth #career-growth
Jan 23

VIDEO Accelerating Career Growth: Learning, Mindset, and Navigating the Tech Landscape

Career Growth #career-growth #learning-strategies #imposter-syndrome
Jan 14

NOTE want to stay relevant?

Career Growth #career-growth
Jan 07

NOTE Lead Projects That Land, Execution Over Everything

Career Growth #career-growth #communication #leadership
Jan 06

NOTE Most engineers get stuck at the senior level (L5) and find it difficult to move up to the staff (L6).

Career Growth #career-growth #asli-engineering
Jan 02

NOTE When working on a new project, we engineers almost always start with the most fascinating part.

Career Growth #leadership #asli-engineering #career-growth

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Dec 23

NOTE Life is a gradient descent.

Career Growth #career-growth
Dec 18

NOTE If you're capable of performing at the L+1 level, start doing so - do not wait to be promoted or compensated for it first

Career Growth #career-growth
Dec 16

NOTE Clout chasers share and sell comforting lies, but those who care about your growth will tell you uncomfortable truths.

Career Growth #career-growth
Dec 11

NOTE We Engineers Suck at Task Estimation

Career Growth #career-growth #devops-and-testing
Dec 10

NOTE Shiny Obect Syndrome in Tech

Career Growth #career-growth
Dec 01

NOTE Why are managers even needed if they are not coding?

Career Growth #leadership #career-growth #asli-engineering
Nov 26

NOTE at least once in your career, take a step back, and

Career Growth #career-growth
Nov 26

NOTE Not every project is exciting and is a chance to learn new skills or tackle fascinating challenges, and that's okay.

Career Growth #leadership #asli-engineering #career-growth
Nov 25

NOTE Everything eventually becomes boring, so make the most of it while it still interests you.

Career Growth #career-growth
Nov 25

NOTE Sometimes a complete rewrite is the only option

Career Growth #career-growth
Nov 20

NOTE Leave your job with grace and gratitude.

Career Growth #career-growth #asli-engineering
Nov 20

NOTE the world has moved beyond your ability to remember.

Career Growth #career-growth
Nov 19

NOTE if for 3 months straight you dread waking up on Monday, it is time to

Career Growth #career-growth
Nov 14

NOTE Never believe that there is just one solution to a problem.

Career Growth #career-growth
Nov 02

NOTE Build a habit of reading 100 pages in one sitting.

Career Growth #career-growth #asli-engineering
Oct 26

NOTE While exploring deadlock management in databases, I stumbled upon an

Career Growth #database-internals #system-design
Oct 25

NOTE Next time a Java "expert" asks me to write extensible,

Career Growth #java-internals #concurrent-data-structures
Oct 24

NOTE Code reviews are essential, and here's how I review code

Career Growth #career-growth
Oct 24

NOTE It is easy to build complex systems and come up

Career Growth #career-growth
Oct 23

NOTE One coding project that I recommend every engineer to build

Career Growth #career-growth
Oct 21

NOTE No company can give you the most exciting, challenging, and impactful project around the year, so the ups and downs in the kind of work you'd get are expected.

Career Growth #leadership #asli-engineering #career-growth
Oct 19

BLOG When to Change Jobs - The 3P Framework

Career Growth #career-growth
Oct 18

NOTE Good engineers are never scared to compete.

Career Growth #leadership
Oct 09

NOTE When you join a new org or switch teams in the same, it is quite an unsettling and borderline anxious experience.

Career Growth #leadership #asli-engineering #career-growth
Oct 08

NOTE Back your disagreement with data.

Career Growth #career-growth
Oct 01

NOTE It is a common misconception that projects and initiatives are only decided at the top and then percolated down to the engineers for execution.

Career Growth #leadership #asli-engineering #career-growth
Sep 26

NOTE be blunt in asking questions.

Career Growth #career-growth
Sep 25

NOTE Writing a good, concise, yet detailed self-review is essential to pitch yourself for a good appraisal, a bonus, and even a promotion

Career Growth #leadership #asli-engineering #career-growth
Sep 23

NOTE I felt like an imposter for the first few months at Google.

Career Growth #career-growth
Sep 21

NOTE Not every time you will get the most exciting and impactful project at work.

Career Growth #leadership #career-growth
Sep 15

NOTE Every engineer should work in SRE for at least ~2 years.

Career Growth #distributed-systems #asli-engineering #sre
Sep 10

NOTE Not everything needs to be dumbed down.

Career Growth #career-growth #asli-engineer #be-curious
Sep 08

NOTE becoming a better engineer is a simple 4-step process

Career Growth #career-growth
Sep 04

NOTE Not everything in the real world needs a syllabus.

Career Growth #distributed-systems #asli-engineering #career-growth
Aug 26

NOTE Don't Wait, Learn - The Best Resource is Mythical

Career Growth #career-growth #productivity
Aug 25

NOTE if you want to become a better engineer, just understand and remember

Career Growth #career-growth
Aug 23

NOTE No question is stupid if you know how to put it across.

Career Growth #career-growth #asli-engineering
Aug 22

VIDEO Writing Code That Matters: Prioritizing Impactful Engineering Work

Career Growth #career-growth #software-engineering #impactful-code
Aug 19

NOTE It's not about what you know, but about how you think.

Career Growth #ai-systems #asli-engineering #career-growth
Aug 13

NOTE The Unexpected Benefit of Reading Random Engineering Articles

Career Growth #career-growth #communication #databases
Aug 12

NOTE Roadmaps Are Limiting Your Growth

Career Growth #career-growth #productivity
Jul 31

NOTE Never Bad-Mouth Your Past Employers

Career Growth #career-growth #interviews
Jul 29

NOTE Show You're a Culture Fit

Career Growth #career-growth #communication #interviews
Jul 25

NOTE I recently posted a short/reel video talking about why you

Career Growth #career-growth
Jul 24

NOTE Every company is chaotic.

Career Growth #career-growth
Jul 24

VIDEO The Transformative Power of Diverse Programming Languages

Career Growth #programming-languages #career-growth #software-engineering
Jul 19

NOTE ULIDs are great, but are they the ultimate ID generation solution

Career Growth #system-design
Jul 08

NOTE Questions to Ask Your Interviewer

Career Growth #career-growth #interviews #leadership
Jul 04

NOTE Go is pretty awesome at managing memory and there is

Career Growth #go
Jul 03

NOTE One of the unsettling trends I observed at big tech and FAANGs is that people are more interested in critiquing ideas than in understanding them 🤦‍♂️

Career Growth #career-growth
Jul 01

NOTE How to Build Trust Through Collaboration

Career Growth #career-growth #communication #concurrency
Jun 20

NOTE Do This, Once You Are Out of the Interview Cycle

Career Growth #career-growth #databases #interviews
Jun 17

NOTE Stop Pitching Ideas, Start Pitching Projects

Career Growth #career-growth #leadership
Jun 13

NOTE One really interesting blog I read today was about how

Career Growth #system-design #recommendation-system
Jun 10

NOTE Read Those Design Docs, Even the Ones That Seem Irrelevant

Career Growth #career-growth #leadership
May 29

NOTE A good codebase is always the one that makes it

Career Growth #career-growth
May 29

NOTE The Best Engineering Lessons Happen During Outages

Career Growth #career-growth #productivity
May 27

NOTE Great Engineers Start Broad

Career Growth #career-growth #leadership #productivity
May 15

NOTE Functions in your code should be no longer than five lines

Career Growth #career-growth
May 13

NOTE You are not hired to just ship features ...

Career Growth #career-growth
May 04

NOTE One of the most interesting projects that I did in

Career Growth #system-design
May 01

NOTE Once I was reviewing a code and I found that

Career Growth #system-design
Apr 24

NOTE I once saw a FAANG codebase with 100% test coverage

Career Growth #career-growth
Apr 18

NOTE Engineers Should Align Work With Business Priorities

Career Growth #career-growth #business-outcomes #leadership
Apr 17

NOTE LeetCode has induced instant gratification and made building boring ⚡

Career Growth #distributed-systems #asli-engineering
Apr 11

NOTE It is not worth optimizing your code further ⚡

Career Growth #system-design #optimization
Apr 08

NOTE Do not keep looking for beginner-friendly content ⚡

Career Growth #career-growth #asli-engineering #system-design
Apr 02

NOTE Programming languages are evolving, and evolving for good ⚡

Career Growth #career-growth
Mar 27

NOTE Title Inflation

Career Growth #career-growth #interviews
Mar 21

NOTE What makes Goroutines highly efficient

Career Growth #go
Mar 18

NOTE Documentation is important, but most companies do it wrong ⚡

Career Growth #career-growth
Mar 15

NOTE How do updates work under the hood in Elasticsearch

Career Growth #elastic-search-internals
Mar 14

NOTE You can always further optimize your code, but stop when it has been optimized and made efficient enough.

Career Growth #career-growth
Mar 12

NOTE A very convenient keyword in Go is `defer` which allows

Career Growth #golang-internals
Mar 11

NOTE At Work, Find Your Own Projects

Career Growth #career-growth #leadership #productivity
Mar 08

NOTE Don't be limited by someone else's curation.

Career Growth #career-growth
Mar 08

NOTE This afternoon, I got curious about image formats and started

Career Growth #career-growth
Mar 07

NOTE early career - you are paid for your speed of execution

Career Growth #career-growth
Mar 04

NOTE Chandrayaan-3 piqued my interest in exploring the actual algorithms that

Career Growth #career-growth
Mar 03

NOTE Interfaces in Go are costly

Career Growth #system-design #database-internals
Mar 01

NOTE What are zero-cost abstractions and why do they matter

Career Growth #career-growth
Feb 29

NOTE Frontend is the worst place to hardcode the errors ⚡

Career Growth #system-design
Feb 27

NOTE All frontend frameworks are converging ⚡

Career Growth #career-growth
Feb 26

NOTE I have seen a lot of good engineers getting stuck in tutorial hell, and here's how to get out of it ⚡

Career Growth #career-growth #asli-engineering
Feb 22

NOTE Do not limit yourself to becoming just an API integrator ⚡

Career Growth #career-growth
Feb 22

NOTE Go handles errors and exceptions better than Java ⚡

Career Growth #career-growth
Feb 18

NOTE Spent Sunday afternoon prototyping probabilistic counting ⚡

Career Growth #system-design #algorithms
Feb 12

NOTE How do you get better at writing and structuring a large codebase?

Career Growth #career-growth
Feb 09

NOTE If you want to know how payment systems are implemented,

Career Growth #career-growth
Feb 07

NOTE Why do I read papers

Career Growth #career-growth
Feb 05

NOTE Comments make the code easier to read, but most of

Career Growth #career-growth
Feb 01

NOTE Makefiles are boring but extremely useful ⚡

Career Growth #career-growth
Jan 31

NOTE Showing extreme ownership is the easiest way to climb up the ladder faster.

Career Growth #career-growth
Jan 30

NOTE Finding a mentor is hard, but it definitely should not be a blocker.

Career Growth #career-growth
Jan 22

NOTE Designing systems requires a deep understanding of the problem statement and it is better to never write your first line of code unless you understand the context, input, expected output, and potential outcome well; because;

Career Growth #career-growth
Jan 15

NOTE 6 Simple Strategies to Cracking Any Tech Interview

Career Growth #career-growth #interviews #python-internals
Jan 11

NOTE Optimization is a zero-sum game ⚡

Career Growth #career-growth
Jan 11

NOTE Some internal tools at cloud companies like AWS, GCP, and

Career Growth #system-design

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Dec 28

NOTE Error and exception handling is an integral part of programming,

Career Growth #career-growth
Dec 23

NOTE We can optimize for anything, and the context determines what we choose to optimize ⚡

Career Growth #career-growth #asli-engineering #system-design
Dec 22

NOTE Writing efficient code or queries almost always takes a backseat ⚡

Career Growth #career-growth
Dec 20

NOTE The coolest thing about Google's Spanner Database is its clock

Career Growth #system-design #distributed-systems
Dec 18

NOTE Following roadmaps is like being spoon-fed ⚡

Career Growth #career-growth #asli-engineering
Dec 18

NOTE One paper that sparked my interest in the big data

Career Growth #system-design
Dec 08

NOTE Pre-signed URLs are great, but should we add an extra

Career Growth #system-design
Dec 07

NOTE How do libraries like OpenCV and ImageMagick written in C,

Career Growth #go
Dec 04

NOTE How to benchmark your Go code

Career Growth #go
Dec 03

NOTE Pointers are a great way to pass large objects across

Career Growth #go #pointers
Dec 02

NOTE I am kicking off 30 days of Go challenge on Duggup ⚡

Career Growth #30days-of-go
Dec 01

NOTE Before you ship your next big feature, just put it

Career Growth #system-design
Nov 25

NOTE Your day job should not be your sole source of learning ⚡

Career Growth #career-growth #asli-engineering
Nov 16

BLOG How to Remain Unblocked

Career Growth #career-growth #leadership
Nov 13

NOTE Your job isn't to write code; your job is to help your company succeed.

Career Growth #career-growth
Nov 08

NOTE Building a career in software engineering is not just about coding ⚡

Career Growth #leadership #asli-engineering #career-growth
Nov 07

NOTE Senior engineers always juggle the following 3 hats ⚡

Career Growth #distributed-systems #asli-engineering #seniorsoftwareengineer
Nov 01

NOTE While going through the release notes of Python 3

Career Growth #python
Oct 25

NOTE Golang is beautiful and here's an example of its well-designed

Career Growth #go
Oct 24

NOTE Netflix gave up on strict data consistency and guarantees to

Career Growth #system-design
Oct 19

NOTE Picking the right primary key is one of the most

Career Growth #career-growth
Oct 11

NOTE To have a stellar career, drive impact, but how?

Career Growth #career-growth
Oct 04

NOTE Just built a SQL connection pool in Go from scratch ⚡

Career Growth #system-design
Sep 25

NOTE Why do Go routines take up just 2KB space while

Career Growth #golang-internals
Sep 14

NOTE Clarity is not what you know you want to do, but it is what you know you want to avoid ⚡

Career Growth #career-growth #asli-engineering
Sep 10

NOTE Spend first 3 years of your career doing these to accelerate your growth ⚡️

Career Growth #career-growth #asli-engineering
Sep 08

NOTE Recently, I was going through the source code of Python

Career Growth #python-internals
Aug 22

NOTE Since 2016, I have built countless production-grade services in Go,

Career Growth #career-growth
Jul 18

NOTE Something that always gets us confused

Career Growth #system-design #python
Jul 06

NOTE Want to have a thriving career?

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