Building a model to solve a business usecase sounds like a great idea to all of us. It seems intuitive that if we can increase engagment through personalization on a certain website using ML by 5%, it will push revenues up by some percent. However, what often gets overlooked are…

I wrote about the different ways of managing environment variables earlier in my post here. To make it easy for us to deal with configuration in our startup at Truefoundry, we wrote a small tool called SecretsFoundry that has really made it quite seamless for all application teams to maintain…

Configuration Management is an important aspect of software engineering. This article will highlight the why and what of the problem and reason about the different solutions that exist. The approach to managing configuration changes as the app scales — both in terms of traffic and developer team size. To illustrate…

I wrote my earlier posts on how to conduct effective interviews as an interviewer. This article is more from the view of a hiring manager / leader. A hiring manager cannot conduct all interviews themselves, so they need to make sure that all interviewers in the team are trained, calibrated…

Packaging your app and hosting it in Elastic Beanstalk is great to get the service up and running. I wrote about this process for a Node application in my earlier article. However, hosting our app with live users is a bit more challenging. We need to make sure the app…

Interviewing is hard —and this includes both conduction and evaluation. I outlined some key points for effective interviewing in my earlier post. In this post, I wanted to go over how to write the interview feedback and make sure we are making the right decision as an interviewer. Why is interview feedback important? Make the right decision As human…

Login with Facebook, Google, and other such authentication providers can provide a seamless login experience to users. For a website supporting both email and social provider logins, almost 50% of users will choose a social provider to log in. I am going to outline how to add login with Facebook…

Deploying a web app with Vue.js in the frontend and Node.js in the backend for the first time can be a daunting task. It required quite a bit of reading and understanding AWS specifics to resolve some of the issues I faced along the way. I took one approach of…

Interviewing a candidate is hard, and is as much an art as it is a skill. It usually takes us months of working with someone to understand their skillsets, knowledge, attitude, and motivation level. Interviewing is about doing that in a few hours. Besides, interviews are the first interaction of…