Published inBetter Programming·Apr 8Web Workers, Open Stack and Artillery — Distributed Systems on JavaScriptThis article is a summary of one of the projects I worked on while taking the course Building Scalable Distributed Systems in my master's. The base premise is building a backend service that allows one to compress images. However, to sprinkle in the distributed goodness, I decided to opt for…Distributed Systems7 min readDistributed Systems7 min read
Dec 23, 2022An attempt at fixing state managementIssues with the current meta The frontend meta, as of writing this article revolves a lot around writing redundant state management logic coupled with the network calls. It’s the same cycle — call certain API, get the data, parse it and then push it over onto the client side state management framework. A multitude of Libraries & a multitude of ways of doing things This has become…React4 min readReact4 min read
Aug 27, 2022Frontend feature flaggingFrontend feature flags are pretty much a quintessential feature for companies who value Continous Delivery — one cannot realistically deploy at a high pace and also get parts entirely ready in time for frequent deployments. This is probably one of the places where feature flagging comes in handy. Many other…QA4 min readQA4 min read
Jun 25, 2022Setting up fool-proof linter rulesIt doesn’t take too long for a newly setup typescript repository to be riddled with wild any ‘s and a bunch of copy-pasted files from developers in the team who didn’t bother to get rid of the imports they didn't use or the variables they never cared to plug in…Typescript3 min readTypescript3 min read
Apr 17, 2022Architecting your iconography — A developer’s perspectiveIn a well-organized team with a dedicated UI/UX Engineer, we often layout ground rules about icons and iconography in general, however in actual implementation, we often find a wide variety of code smells varying from defining different CSS rules for each and every icon to outright being reliant on what…CSS3 min readCSS3 min read
Mar 27, 2022Using generics to create extensible components using TypescriptWe often run across this wormhole of creating elements that match our codebase/designs by over-riding the ones provided out-of-the-box via the front-end library or, in general, try and create custom elements for our codebase. The issue comes when the code-base expands and now you want your component to do more…Typescript4 min readTypescript4 min read
Feb 10, 2022Solving the cold-start problem for new EngineersIn January of 2022, I started working at Event Temple, the leading CRM tool for Hotel and Event management spaces. …Hiring3 min readHiring3 min read
Dec 21, 2021Reflections from a Programming Design course“It’s programming if ‘clever’ is a compliment, but it’s software engineering if ‘clever’ is an accusation.”― Titus Winters, Software Engineering at Google: Lessons Learned from Programming Over Time September 2021 — I enrolled (was forced to, since it’s a mandatory course) in what many graduates consider to be the most…Programming6 min readProgramming6 min read
Jul 9, 2021Marketing automation with intercom — using series!Intercom provides us with a pretty nifty way of regulating how messages are pushed out to customers or even potential customers (classified as leads internally) to either make them use the product or transition to a paid version! However, using the out-of-the-box templates doesn’t cut it for the most part…Marketing4 min readMarketing4 min read
Jul 7, 2021Marketing automation with intercom — sending emailsIntercom lends a WHOLE plethora of features to use, and I’ve mentioned it before, it’s one of the SaaS products that I totally feel is worth the price! In this article, we’ll be going through how would you go about implementing a system through which your backend can push out…Intercom4 min readIntercom4 min read
