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Ashwin Kumar

Ashwin Kumar

Thoughts on time

“In the West, we have become addicted to work. Americans now work the longest hours in the world. And the result is not health, wealth and…

Sep 29, 2020

Thoughts on time

Sep 29, 2020

Ashwin Kumar

The quest for immutability in programming

Unlike real life, where you should always keep changing and improving, in the world of programming, it’s not always desirable when your…

May 4, 2018

May 4, 2018

Ashwin Kumar

Reducing your application’s Memory Footprint on the JVM

Memory consumption has been a point of concern since people started programming computers, and naturally a lot has been spoken and written…

Mar 23, 2018

Mar 23, 2018

Ashwin Kumar

The Singleton Pattern

Why you would want some objects to stay single through out the lifetime of your application. (Trust me! Sometimes its for the best).

Mar 16, 2018

Mar 16, 2018

Ashwin Kumar

Intro to the Observer Pattern

If you are an Android developer, you most probably would have noticed the community going crazy over the RxAndroid and RxJava libraries…

Mar 9, 2018

Mar 9, 2018

Ashwin Kumar

What do you mean by Test Doubles ?

If you have been lately obsessing over Test Driven Development (aka TDD) or have discovered the importance of unit tests because of your…

Feb 5, 2018

What do you mean by Test Doubles ?

Feb 5, 2018

Ashwin Kumar

Custom Scoping in Dagger 2 for Android

When I started with Dagger 2 on android, I used to have a single component interface annotated with the @Component annotation, where I…

Dec 14, 2017

Custom Scoping in Dagger 2 for Android

Dec 14, 2017

Ashwin Kumar

Deep dive into the Room Persistence library (Part — 2)

If you are reading this, I hope that you have gone through the part 1 of these series of articles. If you have not, you can find part 1 of…

Oct 20, 2017

Oct 20, 2017

Ashwin Kumar

Deep dive into the Room Persistence library (Part — 1)

Room Persistence library was introduced in the Google I/0 2017 event, and has been gaining popularity ever since. In Google’s own words

Oct 15, 2017

Deep dive into the Room Persistence library (Part — 1)

Oct 15, 2017

Ashwin Kumar

The Unsung heroes of Indian Cricket

Indian Women’s cricket team’s key players and their road to the finals of the world cup

Jul 22, 2017

The Unsung heroes of Indian Cricket

Jul 22, 2017

Ashwin Kumar

Ashwin Kumar

Passionate about Computer Systems and Cricket and life in general. Lifelong learner. CS PhD student @ IIT Bombay.

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