This article was published here Hiring is one of the most difficult and also rewarding parts of building a company. I prioritize hiring as important as building products. This article reflects what has worked for me to find and hire the best Product Engineers across hundreds of hiring interviews. It outlines topics…
This article was published here Have you ever built a product without sufficient market validation? The result is usually wasted resources and more importantly — a wasted opportunity to build something actually useful. This problem can be summarized with 2 characteristics of a product team. Product team lack of skill…
Authentication in web apps using an Estonian ID card with Nginx is pretty straightforward (although quite unstable). Initial setup Simple ID card authentication boils down to: Enable One-Way TLS on your main domain (e.g. app.example.com)Enable Two-Way TLS on a secondary domain (e.g. id.example.com) using the ID card certificate chain.Redirect user…
Why? GAE(Google App Engine) is a great choice for developers who want to build and deploy applications in a minute. Thanks to a fully managed serverless platform, you are free from the painful server configuration for deployment as well as automatic scaling. But there is a problem that comes with…
The usual document structure Taking a look at the OpenAPI specification file, there are several distinct sections: Information - which usually includes the title, version, some description, terms of service, etc.Servers - where we describe the servers that we use, usually split into production, staging, etc.Paths - resources that our…
Foreword Due to the rising popularity of Flutter I feel it’s a good time to review some of the aspects of keeping your code clean and maintainable. One of the things that developers might not pay so much attention to while building apps is error handling. While it might not…
Need of Optimization In most IT systems, the database is an integral part. Data needs to be processed from databases to actually use it -- and SQL is the standard interface language used to query the Database for data. Most of the time, SQLs written to communicate with the Database…
Most of us have been there, sometimes out of survival necessity, sometimes for extra pocket money, sometimes for extra experience in the field, we have searched for a part-time job while studying. But, have you ever considered getting a full-time job while studying full-time in a foreign country? Is it…
What is UX Accessibility Let's start with a dream example where we came up with a product planning with an elegant design and pinpoint engineering work. But what if at the end we see only a percentage of people can use our products only. But why? We often forget about…
What problem are we trying to solve? JavaScript runs in a single thread per web-page in the browser. This limitation prevents CPU intensive work on client side (encoding/decoding, complex calculations, etc...). Let's see how WASM and WebWorkers help pull through these problems by porting native C/C++ libraries to the web…
