Polyglot Software Development

Heroku Deployments to Production & Lower Environments

You've built your app and think you are good to go. But there's one more step. Deployment!

Scenario: Coding Challenge to be completed in 90 minutes.What are some of the strategies?

It is quite natural to feel overwhelmed when someone gives you 90 minutes and a long list of requirements. Here are some strategies that might help you be successful.

How best to prepare for Technical Interviews

I've been on all sides of technical interviews for years, and I figured it wouldn't hurt to share my thoughts on them!
 
And don't forget to prepare for your next interview in a more structured manner. Do it on https://snowpal.com!
 

Do not over-Design. While a design is imperative, how much of it is needed is completely up to you.

It’s sometimes compelling to try and get every question answered before you start working on coding a feature (regardless of which part of the stack it belongs to). But it may or may not be a good idea. Find the right balance. Here’s how we do it.

How to set up Campaigns in Facebook, Pinterest, App Store, etc.

Well, there's a lot to learn here, and I've hardly scratched the surface. But my hope is that it at least gives you a starting point.

I do a lot of our Software Design work while walking!

When I am sitting in front of my machine, I want to be coding (or doing something that I really need the machine for). Design work doesn't necessarily fall in that category for me - at least not all the time.

Should your Product Manager have to be cognizant of your Architecture?

The correct answer is "No". Or, is it? It really depends on a few different factors. Let's talk about a few pros and cons of either approach.

When we embarked on building a product, we expected some challenges. But not a few others.

I knew we would have engineering challenges and that didn't bother me (having done this for a while). But what kept me awake were the roadblocks that were bound to be there that I had little clue about!

The True Cost of Meetings - it is more than what you think

How much time are you spending in meetings? And are you sure you needed to be in these meetings?

One approach to create UX Designs is to draw them out quickly without relying on tools

If you can draw, this approach will work really well! But, even if you are like me and cannot really draw, it will still save you a ton of time if you manually drew out the UI pages to share with your development team.