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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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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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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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