Technology, Insights, Travel and Philosophy
There has never – literally never been a better time to build software as an individual developer.
Not during the open-source boom.
Not during the mobile app gold rush.
Not even during the early cloud era.
I am often faced with the question of what makes a good technical candidate. Many companies require an engineering degree in their job descriptions. Many high-functioning delivery teams consist of qualified engineers working on real-world problems, and I have learned a great deal from such engineers, who were at the peak of their powers.
Many startups or small companies have very small teams developing big enterprise products, while there are larger companies having multiple people developing and managing the products. A basic enterprise software has the following functions:
Some of these activities can be performed by people having more than one responsibility. For example, a Program Manager might have a dual role of performing Project Management. Or a Lead Developer can take up the role of a project manager besides leading the team.
I always wanted to have a workspace that could replace many a tool I use as a paid alternative or tools hosted in the cloud. Specially now, when most of the time I spend at home working, I have a need to manage my productivity. It uses docker for easy siloed management and it does not require any complicated system changes that break one app or the other. Additionally Dockerhub is a treasure of images that can be run very easily and can be leveraged.
Flagship phones are premium phones that identify the brand of the company selling it. They are usually built with best-in-class hardware and software. They are also the costliest phones in the market just because they have cutting edge hardware and software which gives them unique features.
Recently I gave a presentation on learning multiple programming languages quickly. The idea of the presentation was to quickly start coding in multiple languages and learn the toughest or the unique parts as we go along practising.
The technique is just common sense though, and has mostly worked for me in my career where I have used it to learn multiple programming languages – Java, JavaScript, Python, Go and Rust to name a few. I intend this article for anybody with interest to learn new languages.
We are killing ourselves and our children. We have about twenty years. Climate change is real.
There are so many mobile companies in India cashing in on the mobile craze. There are at least 500 million users in India and it is only growing. It is at least less than half of India’s population.