I’ve come across this interesting quote recently by Stephen King where he says: “Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work” And this is where I started thinking about the very concept of “hard work”. I started...
Don’t ever think there’s such a thing as perfect software, there’s no such a thing. There are, however, relatively satisfying experiences that slowly decline as technology advances and new tools are implemented for better experiences. The trick here is to build your software to be adaptive to the inevitably upcoming...
How is technology born? What makes some technologies so popular while other don’t make it past the drawing board? Why do some technologies get all the way to the top, then die far too soon, when others live on for decades? In this article, I’m going to discuss the life-cycle...
These are some principles that I’ve lived by and learned working with the best engineers in the best business around the world, and from building a one client to a billion users systems from startups to big corporate, here’s my software engineering manifesto: Don’t jump to the first solution you’re...
