How elevating quality content can be a competitive strength — I’m a stickler for visiting bookstores. I spend a not insignificant amount of my time — and money — at local booksellers, browsing covers, trying to find my next read. Even when visiting new cities, I find the urge hard to resist — a fact to which many of my…

I’ve always had a strong disdain for the word “process”. It invokes deep dread and my brain automatically conjures an image of myself sitting at a desk, surrounded by stacks of paper towering over me. Like most engineers, I instinctively view processes as unnecessary and wasteful — nothing but red…

For better or worse, the information you expose yourself on a day-to-day basis shapes not just how you think but also how you see the world. This has become particularly important in the last few years, with the amount of misinformation and “fake news” now at astronomically high levels. …

Over my relatively short career, I’ve noticed a gradual shift in how I think about my roles and responsibilities at work. When I first started out, I felt that engineers should be valued for their technical skill-set alone. …

We are closing in on an entire year since the pandemic induced lock-downs started. With that, it’s also going to be a full year since a lot of us started working remotely, myself included. For the last year or so, I’ve worked predominantly from the makeshift office in my bedroom…

How to rethink your relationship with the technology around you — I absolutely love technology. Smartphones, computers, gadgets, any and all new tech — I’m all for it. It’s one of the many reasons that prompted me to take up a career in software development. Just so I had a chance to be at the forefront of cutting edge technology. I…

What OSS is, what it stands for, and why it matters — The development industry has been seeing a growing towards software that is openly available, shunning proprietary software. For new developers, the reasons for this can be a bit confusing. So let’s try to break things down. For a piece of software to be open source, it simply means that the…

Cloud computing is a roughly 400 billion dollar industry that has completely transformed the way software gets built today. But cloud computing as we currently use it is a fairly recent idea.To …

For better or worse, for the average user, search engines are the gateway to the internet. When trying to find relevant information on the web, most people tend to go to their favorite search engine, type in a couple of keywords and visit the first handful of links that show…