Jeet Ka Gyan

While recording a podcast [https://www.jeet.world/engineering-management-scaling-teams/] with Scaler, Arnav Gupta asked a question I have received in multiple forms from founders and engineering leaders connecting with me for advice. What changes when your team goes from zero to 300? I have seen this journey numerous times and

This is the first offline podcast I participated in. Arnav Gupta from Scaler had some really interesting questions for the session.

This topic is close to my heart and I got to speak about how mobile is super important for us and how primarily backend experts leaders can add value to their mobile architecture.

I participated in a panel discussion with Narayan Mahadevan (CEO, BridgeLabz) and Puneet Gupta (CTO, Homelane) with ET Campus Stars. We discussed a variety of topic including surge in demand, lack of employable graduates, future trends, women in tech (I was wrong about my take on this point) and work

I spoke to Michael Page some time ago and Karan had some really insightful questions for me: 1. Over the last decade, what has changed in the way you look at evaluating talent? 2. What should tech professionals do to land their dream job? 3. How does one grow into

Met a friend after 10 years and he mentioned watching this video with Tanay [https://twitter.com/tanaypratap]. This was my first YouTube live video and I enjoyed the experience thanks to Tanay!

Engineers want to be left alone to build cool stuff; many of us believe this stereotype to be true. Engineers I talk to tell me they want ownership, they want to contribute to the team or company vision, and engineers also want to see the impact of what they are

Passwords are insecure, and in-memory session storage doesn't scale. The second part of this series describes how I have seen developers solving these two problems. The era of in-memory session storage Photo by Tyler Daviaux [https://unsplash.com/@tylerdaviaux?utm_source=ghost&utm_medium=referral&utm_

In this post, I have written about how I have seen authentication changing on the web in the last 20 years. I have divided the post into two parts. The first time I created authentication for a website, I checked for the presence of isLoggedIn flag and username in the

What do engineers want from their PM (product manager) counterparts? I have discussed this topic with several PMs and engineers in the past and thought I would write it out for everyone. In this two-part series, I want to first write about what I have learned about what engineers want

I have done a few startups and joined some startups as an early employee; nowadays, I talk to and mentor multiple startups today. The startups I focus on are internet startups, and here are some tools and methods that I invariably see them using. Internal Communication After buying a domain,

JavaScript and web development have come a long way in the last 20 years. When I started working on the web in 1997, most websites were static. When I clicked on a button, the web page submitted a form and loaded the response from the server, and if I wanted

HTTP protocol seems to have replaced almost all other popular (at one time) protocols. When the web got CGI [https://www.jeet.world/cgi-was-the-radioactive-spider-for-the-peter-parker-of-the-web/] , it got powerful, and it has started killing other protocols. In the last 33 years, we have seen an unprecedented consolidation of standards [https://xkcd.com/

I was a lousy manager. I recently attended a session where the instructor asked me about my mistakes as a manager, and I thought I had made all the possible mistakes as a people manager. I am still making mistakes and learning from them every day. I want to talk

Imagine your software is running on millions of powerful computers. You want to change the behavior of your software by making a configuration tweak. Mobile app developers- congratulations, you are already living the dream. You run a large distributed apps today. These computers are mobile phones, and I want to

💡Don't make your customers wait!A few years ago, I went to buy a car, and even after taking an appointment for the purchase was made to wait. I had taken the test drive, I was experiencing the famous frequency bias and I just had to make a

We found a major security issue with our APIs and wanted to ensure that one API shuts down completely. But this was not easy; most of our app customers were on versions that relied on the buggy API. We decided to block all old versions of our app. The only

The fall of the Berlin wall in 1989 was historic but today the biggest news from 1989 was an invention. When Sir Tim Berners-Lee [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Berners-Lee] invented the World Wide Web in 1989, the revolutionary web was rather static. In 1989 and for many years,

Last Thursday (18th November), I spent the whole day going through a great beginner JavaScript playlist on YouTube: Namaste JavaScript [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlasXeu85E9cQ32gLCvAvr9vNaUccPVNP] I also live-tweeted while I learned and watched these videos here: > I plan to 'live tweet' while I learn from

Over the last 20 years, I have had an opportunity to work with 0 to 1 products (made popular by Peter Thiel ), 1-10, and 10-100 products. After talking to 100s of engineers, product managers, and founders; it's very clear to me that the engineering team's communication

"Oh no, Adi is in why mode!", Groaned Pratham and our family mentally started preparing for the onslaught of the word why for the next 10-15 minutes. Life is different with 10-year-olds around, they can keep asking why until you start saying "I don't know&

Many brilliant developers become engineer managers and stop coding. Even worse they stop code reviews too. I believe engineering managers and if possible senior engineering leaders should continue to do code reviews. 🏏 Managers leaving code reviews is like Rahul Dravid retiring to become Indira Nagar ka Gunda instead of mentoring