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Book Recommendations: Shape Up

I love reading about how people do creative work. Be it writing books or designing video games, there’s something magical about peeking behind the curtain and learning how the pros do their thing.

Today I’m reviewing Shape Up, a book about the process of writing software at Basecamp.

written September 15, 2019 in agile, basecamp, book, books, design, planning, processes Read on →

Book Recommendations: The Advantage

Today I’m reviewing The Advantage by Patrick Lencioni. A book written for leaders looking to build a healthy organization.

written August 11, 2019 in book, business, culture, health, leadership, organizational Read on →

Graphic Design Tools for Backend Engineers

You might think that being a backend engineer means you’ll never have to draw anything more complex than a bunch of boxes connected with arrows (or hexagons if are going all cloud native). This is simply not true, and that’s why you’re here.

At some point you’ll find yourself producing system diagrams, flow-charts, slides, mockups, maybe even icons! So, let me show you some tools and tricks I picked up over the years to fake it at design.

written June 7, 2019 in communication, design, draw, graphic, graphs, productivity, soft-skill, tools, visual Read on →

Mockk All the Things

Over the last few years Mockk has been gaining ground as the go-to mocking library in KotlinWorld ™. Just recently, it was listed as “adopt” in the ThoughtWorks technology Radar. Want to know what all the fuss is about?

written May 9, 2019 in kotlin, mocking, mockk, spy, stub, test Read on →

Different Kinds of Channels in Kotlin

Overview of the different kinds of Kotlin channels and their behaviors.

written April 18, 2019 in channels, concurrency, coroutines, kotlin Read on →

SQS Consumer Using Kotlin Coroutines

Today we’ll see how to write a SQS consumer that processes messages in a parallel, non-blocking way, using Kotlin coroutines.

written February 23, 2019 in aws, consumer, coroutines, kotlin, producer, queue, sqs Read on →

Guice at a Glance

A visual overview of Google’s Guice model.

written February 8, 2019 in cheat-sheet, dependency, framework, google, guice, injection Read on →

How to Prepare for the Silicon Valley Interview - Part 3

This is the third and final post of the Interviewing in Silicon Valley series. In this last piece I talk about how to make the most of your on-site, how to handle rejection and how to compare competing offers.

written January 23, 2019 in hiring, interview, interview-series, interviewing, job, silicon, tips, valley Read on →

How to Prepare for the Silicon Valley Interview - Part 2

Welcome to the second part of the Interviewing Series! It’s time to cover the thing that terrifies most candidates¹: the technical questions. We’ll see what different types of questions there are, and how we can prepare for them. We have a lot of ground to cover so let’s jump right into it.

written January 10, 2019 in hiring, interview, interview-series, interviewing, job, silicon, tips, valley Read on →

How to Prepare for the Silicon Valley Interview - Part 1

For the past few months, I’ve been interviewing with different companies on the Valley, from some of the well-known giants to promising startups. Over the next couple of weeks I’ll be publishing a series of articles about the things I learned in the journey. This is Part 1.

written January 6, 2019 in hiring, interview, interview-series, interviewing, job, silicon, tips, valley Read on →

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