Ketan BhattRace Conditions/Concurrency Defects in Databases: A CatalogueI came across defects caused by race conditions that might occur when we work with databases, while reading Designing Data-Intensive…Jan 25Jan 25
Ketan BhattIntercom’s Interview Process and My ExperienceI interviewed at Intercom, Dublin, for a “Product Engineer” role in June-August, 2019. I will be starting my Intercom journey on December…Jan 1, 2020Jan 1, 2020
Ketan BhattPostgres: Recreating Indexes supporting Unique, Foreign Key and Primary Key ConstraintsI have frequently found myself in situations when I had to reindex a few indexes (because the index got bloated a lot), and I always have…Aug 16, 2019Aug 16, 2019
Ketan BhattAvoid breaking habits with help from EconomicsRecently, while reading “How Will You Measure Your Life?”, I came across the concept of Marginal Thinking and I thought that it could be…May 29, 2019May 29, 2019
Ketan BhattWhy do “people” make irrational decisions?God grant us the serenity to exercise our bounded rationality freely in the systems that are structured appropriately, the courage…Jan 15, 2019Jan 15, 2019
Ketan BhattinHackerNoon.comOn taking feedback wellA colleague and I were discussing how it is difficult to take critical feedback well. The conversation was textual and I ended up writing…Dec 10, 2018Dec 10, 2018
Ketan BhattDeep Work by Cal NewportI have always been interested in how to do more meaningful work, and get better and better at what I do. This quest sees me read content…Oct 14, 2018Oct 14, 2018
Ketan BhattinHackerNoon.comDon’t be the Alpha Geek: Your team deserves betterAlpha Geek?Aug 12, 20182Aug 12, 20182
Ketan BhattinHackerNoon.comHow I stopped being awful at managing: Leadership lessons from a DevAt Squad, we have been following the concept of having small inter-disciplinary teams, which we call Solver Teams (the concept is…May 6, 2018May 6, 2018
Ketan BhattinSquadStack EngineeringConfigure Postgres statement_timeout from within DjangoIn a bid to prepare ourselves for projected growth, we are at the moment trying to figure out what part of our system will break at what…Apr 2, 20181Apr 2, 20181