A few months back, I worked on building an observability solution for data pipelines 🛠. There was the use case where I had to get the count of messages published in a pub/sub topic for streaming sources. I was exploring various ways to achieve this, and one of the quickest ways I found was using Stackdriver. 🚀
Recently at my work, I applied the wrong set of migrations in the database. It eventually broke the stuff and no one could access the system. I panicked, but I focused more on learning new things!
2021 had been all about chaos, adapting, supporting each other, taking care of yourself, exploring and prioritising your needs. The first half of 2021 had been quite challenging with a lot of chaos. Human interaction almost went digital. We witnessed the most difficult phase of the pandemic ever. It was all about remaining calm in the storm.
We encounter load balancers every day. Even when you are reading this article, your requests flow through multiple load balancers, before this content reaches your browser.
This month has been very special to me. I got a chance to reconnect with people and took a break from work to recharge myself. People think overworking themselves will get more jobs done. But on the contrary, the harder you work without taking a break, the less productive and creative you are.
High-performing teams usually ship faster, better, and often! Organizations irrespective of their level, focusing on stability and continuous delivery, will deploy frequently. Hundreds of continuous integration build run for every organization on a typical day. It indicates how CI has become an integral part of our development process. Hence to ensure that we are shipping quality code, we should integrate code quality checking in our CI.