How to Make a Report Open Up to You?
Something I learned today from the book “The Making of a Manager” by Julie Zhuo is how to deal with the situation when you are a new manager of a team and need to have a report open up to you.
List of Ways to Make a Presentation Fun
In this post I will document ways I learned that tend to make a presentation fun and engaging. I will keep maintaining this list as I learn new techniques from watching other presentations.
4 Paths to Become an Engineering Manager
Many people seek to become an engineering manager and they often wonder what paths could lead them to it. In her book “The Making of a Manager”, Julie Zhuo mentions 4 paths that people often go through that lead them into reaching a manager role, namely: the apprentice, the pioneer, the new boss, the successor.
Red Flags to Consider in Software Engineering Interviews
There is probably nothing more frustrating than investing a huge amount of time interviewing for a company to realize that the offer you got is either far from what you expected, or even worse, after joining the joining the company you discover that it’s actually not a good fit at all.
What is Consensus in Distributed Systems?
Consensus is a concept in Distributed Systems that looks at ways to make a set of nodes agree on a decision.
For example, suppose we have a distributed database system that has a master node and a set of slave nodes. If the master node dies, which slave node should become the master and how to select it? This is where we need to reach consensus among these nodes pick the next master.