Ankush Choubey

I share a collection of valuable resources I come across on my field, which I update regularly. As I explore these resources more, I may also write blog posts on them. The resources will be removed once a related blog post is written.

Resources and Some Notes

Startups

2022
- Dec
  - Slidebean - YouTube Channel

Leadership

Hiring
- 2022
  - Dec
    - Waiting for the right person is faster than hiring the wrong one. So don’t settle for the best of a mediocre pool.
    - Watch This: The REAL GENIUS of Steve Jobs (THIS Made Him EXCEPTIONAL!) - YouTube
      - Best people are self manage. What they need is common vision.
      - Find people who are really excited.
    - Hiring Process at AirBnB - YouTube
      - Check their core values.
      - Prefer people who already have used products.
      - “What is a common way yyou are mispercieved?” Makes people authentic
    - Hiring hack: How to better evaluate your candidates - Simon Sinek
      - Hiring decision is like adoption. So do that carefully. Treat it like dating.
      - Cultural fit > skills.
      - Protecting the culture you’ve cultivated is more important than acquiring skills.
      - You don’t appeal to everyone. You let the best candidates for you find you.
Company Values
- 2022
  - Dec
    - AirBnb 6 Golden Rules via Brian Chesky - YouTube
  - Oct
    - Amazon: The Leadership Principles Explained - YouTube
Work Ethics
- 2022
  - Dec
    - Narendra Modi’s working style - YouTube

Interesting Blogs

Philippe Bourgau’s XP Coaching Blog
Emre Bolat
Honeypot - YouTube: Documentary for developers
The GitHub Blog

Podcast

2022
- Oct
  - Around IT In 256 Seconds By Tomasz Nurkiewicz

Guest Posts on Other Sites

Coding Tools and Workflows

2022
- Oct
  - Daily: musicForProgramming();
  - Daily: Commitlint Online - lint commit messages online
  - Daily: Pomodoro Timer Online - Pomofocus
  - Automation: GitCup
  - Screen Recorder - Chrome Web Store

10x developer

2022
- Aug
  - The Product-Minded Software Engineer
- Oct

Hard Code Engineering

2022
- Oct

Domain Knowledge

Oct 2022

System Design

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The Eight Fallacies of Distributed Computing
Capacity Planning:
- Sep 2022
  - Gather requirements first:
  - Capacity Planning for DevOps
  - Back of the envelope estimation
10 Microservice Best Practices For Your Projects: The 80/20 Way
HTTP Status Codes Decision Diagram - Infographic - Loggly

Requirement Gathering

Sep 2022
- Functional and Non-Functional Requirements
- 10 Steps To Successful Requirements Gathering - Phase2 Technology
- What Questions Do I Ask During Requirements Elicitation?
- @happy @unhappy @help @resilience @security @wip @prioritized @done @reviewed
- When doing requirement gathering
- Always have questions.
  - Be prepared. The best way to prepare is to have a document ready with all questions and concerns.
- Only when requirements are approved start working
  - All work until requirements aren’t finished is experimental code. (Spike Code, POC, Hopefully not MVP.)
  - All of these are just to gather more and clarity requirements and what is possible.

Web

2022
- Sep
  - Webhooks
- Nov

Spring Boot and Java

Maven Plugins
- Mutability Detector: This is important when doing concurrent programming.
Spring Boot
- 2022
  - Dec
    - jcabi/jcabi-aspects: Collection of AOP/AspectJ Java Aspects
  - Nov
  - Sep
    - Top 10 Most Common Spring Framework Mistakes
    - Realtime user tracking in Spring Boot
    - Metrics for your Spring REST API
    - Spring boot playground: Some interesting helper libraries
    - JMolecular: Makes it easy to implement Domain Driven Design
  - Oct
    - Spring Boot Best Practices
    - Building a Framework on top of Spring Boot by Rubén Pahíno - Spring I/O 2022 Sessions - YouTube

Testing

Ops
- 2022
  - Dec
    - Allure TestOps: Software Quality Management Software - Qameta.io
UI
- 2022
  - Dec
    - eliasnogueira/selenium-java-lean-test-architecture: Ready to use Lean Test Automation Architecture using Java and Selenium WebDriver to speed up your test automation
    - healenium/healenium-web: Self-healing library for Selenium Web-based tests
Code
- 2022
  - Aug
    - Practical Testing Book:
  - Sep
    - Java Performance Testing
    - LoadTesting Java Load4j: Has interesting read on SLOs via verifiable tests.
    - Common Exceptions
  - Oct
    - More Testable Code with the Hexagonal Architecture
  - Nov
    - How to Get Started with Test Driven Development — A Step by Step Guide
    - Third party Extensions · junit-team/junit5 Wiki

Database

2022 Aug
- MongoDB Building with Patterns

Devops

Cloud
- 2022
  - Nov
    - Top 50+ AWS Services Explained in 10 Minutes - YouTube
    - How I would learn AWS Cloud (If I could start over) - YouTube
Tools
- 2022
  - Dev
    - Deploy automatically in parallel: https://stackoverflow.com/a/56841265
      - Make sure to use full name: full project name is folder1/folder2/MyJob.
  - Nov
    - Conductor Documentation
  - Sep
    - The Ancestors and Offsprings of DevOps, the Evolving DevOps Tree
  - Aug
    - The 20/80 Rules: The 20% of DevOps skills you will use 80% of the time.

Architecture

UML and diagrams
- 2022
  - Dec
    - Structurizr
Reactive Programming
- 2022 Aug 22
Microservices
- 2022 Sep
  - Recommended: A pattern language for microservices
Kubernetes
- 2022 Sep
  - A visual guide on troubleshooting Kubernetes deployments
Design Patterns
- 2022
  - Nov
    - Small and Simple: Refactor if/elseif/elseif using Strategy Design Pattern
    - REST API following CLEAN ARCHITECTURE & DDD Tutorial

Clean Code

2022
- Try not to call your objects DTO: Contains a list of alternative names
- Nov
  - CUPID—for joyful coding - Dan North & Associates Ltd
  - Write Better Commits, Build Better Projects - The GitHub Blog

Observability

2022
2022 Aug 22
- Graphana Documentation
2022 Sep:
- Instrumenting Observability: Getting Started and Pro Tips
- Difference Between Observability and Monitoring: Monitory means systems metrics. Observability is much deeper. current understanding: logs.
- Practical Observability: Do not silence errors
Nov
- Slack System Status: A public view of whether Slack has an outage
- Observability Primers: Observability can also be used for SLIs and SLOs