The non-tech tasks of a Principal/Staff EngineerThe Principal/Staff engineer role has gained quite some traction as of 2023 and it is quite common for companies to invest in this role…Dec 4, 2023Dec 4, 2023
Summer 2021: The top 6 work related books I read this yearLike the previous year, 2021 went by in a blur thanks to the overly long lockdown in most of Europe. Locked within our four-walls and…Jul 27, 2021Jul 27, 2021
Approaching your first event driven design implementation : a case studyTapping into event driven design can be daunting, even for the experienced software programmers. We have a tendency to get intimidated…Jul 18, 2021Jul 18, 2021
How to prepare for a Developer Job interview in GermanyThere are many things which keep us developers shrieking and hiding behind oak doors. Be it Bugs, Incidents, KPIs, Javascript, Game of…Sep 20, 2018Sep 20, 2018
How to add defaults for missing properties in Play Scala JSON SerializationI came across this interesting use case, when I was trying to unmarshall some JSON into case classes and I wanted to take into account…May 31, 20181May 31, 20181
Asynchronous programming with GoWhen I started learning Go, a couple of its features had really drawn me towards it. The first was the ease in which pointers could be…Apr 22, 20183Apr 22, 20183
Build your first API server with httprouter in GolangI turned into a Gopher abut 10 months ago and have never looked back. Like many other gophers, I quickly found the simple features of the…Sep 30, 20171Sep 30, 20171