Software Development, Finance and AI
We’ve been doing Software Development and Architecture work for a while at Snowpal, and currently have several B2B and B2C products in production. In this podcast, we’ll share our experiences on a regular basis to help you & your teams build great software. The topics covered in this podcast will include Product Management, Project Management, Architecture, Development, Deployment, Security, Release Management, Sales, Marketing, Advertising, and just about everything else an ambitious, fast growing startup based out of the US is likely to be involved in. So, join us. Let’s become better!
Episodes
Jan 12, 2021
Jan 12, 2021
9 min
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!
Jan 10, 2021
Jan 10, 2021
9 min
How much time are you spending in meetings? And are you sure you needed to be in these meetings?
Dec 31, 2020
Dec 31, 2020
10 min
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.
Dec 25, 2020
Dec 25, 2020
7 min
While it would save time (which is priceless for everyone, not to mention smaller startups where it is even more valuable!) to use UX designs created for the Web for Mobile Apps, and vice-versa, it is hardly ever possible (if a seamless User Experience across devices is at the top of your priority list).
Dec 25, 2020
Dec 25, 2020
2 min
Well, as technology improves, we get smarter as humans. But, so do bots. There's any number of things you can, and should, do to ensure your app is not hit with bot (aka: fake) sign ups.
Dec 1, 2020
Dec 1, 2020
2 min
We use our own product (obviously!) to give us a federated view of all the projects that our ecosystem comprises of but at a code repository level, we use GitHub's Project feature to manage repo-specific issues. Here's how we do it.
Nov 28, 2020
Nov 28, 2020
3 min
There is no single answer to what branching strategies work for you when it comes to GitHub. We've tried more than a few ourselves but eventually arrived at one that works quite well for us.
Nov 27, 2020
Nov 27, 2020
5 min
While it's important to not be bogged down by terminologies, it is also imperative that there is consensus within any given team so there is no confusion.
Nov 21, 2020
Nov 21, 2020
2 min
It is hard to overstate the value strong typing brings to the table, especially in the context of teams that move real fast (and have fun doing so)!
Nov 20, 2020
Nov 20, 2020
1 min
If you upgraded to heroku-20, and ran into SSL errors, this quick video (less than 2 minutes is very, very quick for someone for who brevity ain't always a forte!) may help you. It took me 3 hours to figure this out, and if I can save you that time, it would be worth it, right!