Onboarding onto a new team can be difficult, even uncomfortable. Below are some key questions to ask during your first week at work that will set you up for success. Take notes on the answers you receive so that you can refer to them later. How can I best utilize our 1-on-1 meetings? You’re likely to have scheduled…

This article discusses what and why of memoization. We’ll also take a look at a code example demonstrating memoization. What To understand memoization, it’s helpful to first understand what a cache is. If you’re unfamiliar with the concept of caching, check out this AWS page. A cache is typically used to…

If you’ve worked in Ruby before, perhaps you’ve also used the ever-helpful RuboCop. RuboCop is a Ruby code style checker (linter) and formatter based on the community-driven Ruby Style Guide. — Rubocop.org RuboCop is a great tool to ensure that your code consistently adheres to an appropriate standard. The various…

This post is a follow up to my previous article, Go: Concurrency vs Parallelism. The previous article, linked above, introduced the concept of concurrency in Go. In this article, we will discuss channels and how we can leverage channels in a program that is structured for concurrency. What is a channel? Goroutines are how…

Non-technical tips to guarantee a positive experience — Recently, I spent a few weeks job hunting full-time in search of a new engineering role. Ultimately, the job hunt was a great experience for me and I learned a lot of lessons along the way. I was able to obtain 3 offers in just 3 weeks on the market…

Note: I highly recommend watching ‘Concurrency Is Not Parallelism’, a talk given by Rob Pike (@rob_pike) in 2012. Not only is Rob the expert on Go, he is also excellent with cute gopher analogies. Is concurrency the same as parallelism? I admit that when I first heard the term concurrency, I figured it was synonymous with…

This article will break down Manacher’s algorithm clearly, so that the reader can build a solid mental model. But first, we need to briefly break down the problem at hand — finding the longest palindromic substring. Longest Palindromic Substring If just reading the above sub-heading has you nodding your head, you can probably…

Object.defineProperty() is a static method defined on Object. MDN states that Object.defineProperty() defines a new property directly on an object, or modifies an existing property on an object… When I first came across this method, I wondered if defining a property with Object.defineProperty() …

When using CloudFront to distribute content stored with Amazon S3, you may at times want to force the browser to download the content rather than display it in the browser. I ran into this scenario when building Cloudbeam. Cloudbeam generates signed URLs in order to serve private content to authorized…