Few years back I wrote about lessons learned while working as an architect, you can read them here. Since then my role changed from an architect who works on implementation projects for a single customer to an architect who consults teams from multiple customers spanning different industries. Here are some…

The async function and await keyword introduced as part of ECMAScript 2017 do provide very useful syntactic sugar on top of promises. Promise in itself provides an alternative to callbacks when writing asynchronous code. Promises can be chained, its inbuilt methods like all, any, and race helps to manage multiple…

In object oriented programming, class is a fundamental unit to solve a problem. The way you design, assign responsibilities, and create a hierarchy of classes to build an maintainable and extendable application is always a fundamental challenge software developer faced for decades. A tons of material, books has written on…

LINQ is one of the best features of C#, and provides elegant way to write declarative and functional style code which is easy to read and understand. With ES6 features like generator functions and techniques like currying, it is very easy to explore various possibilities to adopt LINQ style programming…

The question which I get asked often by teams is how to get started on metrics which can provide insights from code, expose pain areas, and help to improve quality. I ask them to focus on metrics from following three areas. Some of the metrics are based on an excellent…

Recently we were building a single page app (actually it was a set of multiple SPA’s) using React, Node, Express and MongoDB. The initial plan was to deploy it within company’s data center, but typical corporate processes causing delays in getting required hardware. There was also requirement to provide email…

Whats important for an author? Typing speed or thinking speed? Typing speed is how many words she can type in a minute, while thinking speed is her ability to lay out a plot, word power, build characters, and create a story which can hold the readers. Her typing speed does…

Over the last 12 years, I played role of solution architect on multiple projects. Here is summary of lessons I learned over the period. Need for embracing ambiguity As a developer, our demand for clear requirements is very logical. As an architect, it’s totally different story. For most of the…

TypeScript is one of the popular languages today, and probable candidate to become the top programming language for 2017 according to TIOBE Index for January 2017. It provides optional static typing to JavaScript (and many other features). It has an interesting implementation for Duck Typing, a clear understanding of which…