Web Developer from Somewhere
In a previous blog post, I detailed a possible technical setup for having a solid foundation for doing RAG within the Springboot ecosystem, using docker to leverage locally downloaded LLMs and Postgres, configured with the PGVector extension to be able to manipulate and store embeddings and work with similarity search from a Postgres DB. If you haven’t yet, go read that one, as it will greatly…
Introduction
Software engineering is a discipline that requires constant learning “by design”. As new frameworks are released and adopted, as the reliable, old and tried technologies get new releases that introduce major changes and completely new APIs, the only way to not fall behind* is to keep learning, or, at the very least, to be able to learn on-demand, only what is needed, when it is needed.
Dogfooding is the practice of using your own products as a way to uncover potential issues and/or improvement areas for them. While it is not a new practice, there has been some recent controversy with it, especially with what has happened at DoorDash that made news when it announced it would require all of its employees — including engineers (gasp!) — to deliver food once a month. The program is…
One recent tweet sparkled my interest and I decided to write a post about it. There’s usually a lot of good content on Twitter that can motivate me to write and, this tweet definitely fits the bill:
I’ve just recently finished reading the book “Atomic Habits” by James Clear, and, it’s a very fascinating book that touches upon the power of making tiny changes to achieve remarkable results. The main takeaway can be boiled down, in simple terms, to a simple idea: what could you achieve if you focused on getting 1% better than yesterday, every day, for a year? Doing some math, we can arrive at…
With the market being so hot right now for senior developers and experienced applicants, it’s undoubtedly a hard time to be an early-career developer in search of a new job. So, it makes it especially important for the rest of us to ensure that early-career engineers can be set up for success so that they can thrive and pass on what they’ve learned to the next generation of developers, keeping up…
There are several things we need to keep in mind as we are writing code to deliver a certain feature. The set of things changes with time, with the sense of urgency that the feature itself requires and also with team culture.
With the covid pandemic still going strong, WFH has become the norm in recent times, and, as a more structural shift in the way modern software related companies conduct their business took place, it has become the standard also for the future. This means that there are many companies adopting remote-first work and opening their workforce to fully remote positions, for eg. Spotify. What this means…
There are many books and blog posts and youtube videos detailing how you can advance in your career and become a better developer. Typically, advancing in your career means aiming for and reaching positions like Senior Software Engineer or Staff Software Engineer and, usually, getting to those positions, implies that, at some extent, and some point in time, you must already be performing at the…