7 Learnings from Jersey #7

Now when emotions have settled down. It’s time to write the farewell post to the captain. My generation has grown up between “Sachin hai na” to “Keep calm and trust Dhoni”. Having said that, we all knew, it was coming. Isn’t it ? Since last few years, his ability to finish the game or reflexes…

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They’re Coming Home !!!

India has given some of the best Software Engineers to the world. Not only did we build a few of the largest and best service companies but have also contributed to great product companies like FAANG. We have been great in delivery since ages but lacked in entrepreneurship and innovation. Well, time is changing and…

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Dear Interviewer, you need to make a great first impression too!

Interviews are not only a tool to hire a candidate but also serve the purpose of presenting an organisation to a potential employee. Lack of enthusiasm, impatience and ineptitude, during an interaction, can work against the employer just as much as it can work against a candidate. And today, when one of the biggest challenges…

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Think these before thinking microservices

Microservices architecture has been discussed and practiced, at least for half a decade now. When to use Microservices and when not to, this is something that really troubles a lot of people. A few influencers advocate microservices architecture over traditional monoliths only if your team is having a deep understanding of the domain/ business. But…

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Ways to create an object of a class

Using constructor: It’s the widely used way of creating objects of a class in most of the programming languages. Based on the need you can overload constructors. See a sample code snippet below. Usage of the above mention code snippet looks like following. Using syntax sugar: Programming languages provide many ways of creating an object…

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Why should we write unit tests?

When I joined my first organization, my seniors asked me to write unit tests for each and every line of code. I was new to the formal IT industry, hence I just followed my seniors. No one explained any reasoning to me. I kept asking this question to my self, why should we write unit…

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