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 to cover with example questions. […]
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 or lack of ownership. In […]
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 from main site […]
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 cost. Google App Engine […]
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 API exposes and […]