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Why Most Get the 80/20 Rule Wrong in Software Development

Why Most Get the 80/20 Rule Wrong in Software Development

How to apply the Pareto principle! It all started in Italy when Vilfredo Pareto observed that approximately 80% of the land in Italy was owned by 20% of the population. He came up with a principle popularly known as the 80–20 principle that states roughly 80% of consequences come from 20% of causes. The majority of results (80%) come from the minority of causes (20%). Various industries have their own interpretations of this rule: In business, 20% of input results in 80%…

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10 Essential Tips to Avoid Work From Home Burnout

10 Essential Tips to Avoid Work From Home Burnout

Strategies to make WFH easy There was a time when I was more productive and at peace when working from home. WFH helped me focus and I could clear days of backlog in a day or two. I used to love WFH because I did not have to commute to work, had no distractions, no/fewer meetings, and could spend more time with my family. WFH was great before the pandemic changed the dynamics of remote work. In the beginning, I…

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5 Additional Skills a Developer Should Learn To Improve Productivity

5 Additional Skills a Developer Should Learn To Improve Productivity

These skills ease your work I have been working as a software developer for more than 16 years. I have developed few skills in my early career that have helped me do my work efficiently and deliver a good quality code. I can not take the credit myself. It was my seniors who guided me and a little credit goes to the kind of work I got early in my career. These skills are not the core skills like you…

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4 Things You Don’t Actually Need To Be a Top Software Developer

4 Things You Don’t Actually Need To Be a Top Software Developer

You don’t have to be an expert All through my career in the software industry, I have seen many developers who want to learn and underestimate their capabilities. Many of us think we can be a top developer only if we are an expert in the language, framework, and domain. I am one of those as well. I have spent a lot of time getting expertise on certain topics just to realize there is always something new coming up. Here…

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How I Transitioned from Embedded Engineer to Cloud Developer

How I Transitioned from Embedded Engineer to Cloud Developer

It was not easy! I started as an embedded programmer. For the first five years of my career, I worked on the lowest layer of the software. I mainly coded in C, built protocol stacks, firmware, and media middleware. A few of my colleagues started an internet company and I decided to join them irrespective of my inexperience in the technology they were building. I am glad I took this decision. I faced many problems learning the application and backend…

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How Work From Home Has Changed And Became Less Desirable In last 18 Months

How Work From Home Has Changed And Became Less Desirable In last 18 Months

I used to love WFH, but not anymore. Work from home was something we all wanted before the pandemic changed everything. It saved us time, no need to commute to work, and more time with the family. Or at least we used to think that way. I must say, I used to love working from home occasionally in the pre-pandemic era. Traveling to work was a pain and I used to spend a lot of time on the road. Not to…

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How Money Saving Psychology Became an Expensive Affair

How Money Saving Psychology Became an Expensive Affair

Don’t cut corners everywhere — a lesson I learned from building a business Around 8 years ago, my friend and I played a game of Laser Tag for the first time. We loved it so much that we started thinking of opening our own Laser Tag arena. When we inquired about the equipment we realized that the equipment was too expensive. We saw an opportunity there and wanted to encase it. We pivoted before starting and started developing our own…

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7 Aspects Of Design That Make Its Review More Important Than That Of Code

7 Aspects Of Design That Make Its Review More Important Than That Of Code

Importance of the design and why you should get the design reviewed It is evident that each time a problem is given to a programmer to solve he tends to kick off with the code. This comes from habit, the eagerness of finding a solution, or the pleasure a programmer experiences from writing the code. Regardless of the domain and the expertise of the developer, if the code is being written without putting a design in place, it’s like constructing…

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Microservices are great. But Don’t Use Microservices for the Heck of It!

Microservices are great. But Don’t Use Microservices for the Heck of It!

Microservices can become painful to manage The Monolithic vs Microservices debate has been going on for quite some time now. I know many developers who started breaking down their monolithic apps into several microservices. I was one of them. Microservices have been gaining a lot of popularity in the developer community, we can not ignore the advantages of monolithic architecture in certain applications. You need to make the right architecture choice depending on numerous factors like the capabilities of your…

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5 Most Important Traits I Look For When I Hire A Developer

5 Most Important Traits I Look For When I Hire A Developer

My perspective towards the process of hiring I have been interviewing developers for years now. My most key lessons came from three types of people: Brilliant hires Ones I regret hiring Rejected candidates I paid more attention to the bad hires and analyzed what I missed when I hired them. I believe if the candidate is a good software developer and a good team player, he can learn any language and possibly any domain of software. It’s not easy to…

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