UpSkillDev India
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UpSkillDev India
@UpSkillDev
UpSkillDev is an open-source community for Indian tech founders, CTOs and leading developers providing resources and upskilling as they scale.
India انضم Ekim 2021
37 يتبع10 المتابعون
Feature flags and software configuration are two different things, both can be dealt with properties, and can be read from environment variable, configurations are usually loaded in beginning, feature flags can be used in environment variables but if you mix them, then boom 💣
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@ponnappa Totally agreed! To upskill from being a newbie developer to an experienced engineer requires a lot of effort, right insights and soft skills as well. To support this journey, we are building community of Indian devs/tech founders helping them build better, faster and smarter.
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We need more conversations about building and less about hiring
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@jiten In present times, many freshers and 2-3 years work ex devs are starting as technical founders. How can they upskill themselves and their 3-6 member tech team as the userbase scales and complexity increases?
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I am already good at programming and system design. How do I become a senior engineer?
I get this question a lot. Many brilliant engineers do not go from being freshmen to senior engineers; some of these engineers are brilliant coders, they can even invert a binary tree ;-)
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Building a startup tech can be very demanding, and one may constantly face build vs buy decisions. Not having correct insights and context can lead to many weeks/months wasted in wrong direction.
Always surrounding oneself with colleagues a step ahead in scaling journey helps.
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@harshitsoni05 Many examples of side projects evolving into full fledged startups in India.
The mindset of solving problems is great to build during college time.
+ the Network/talent advantage makes it much easier than while working in a full time job.
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If you're in college, I'd strongly recommend to start something - side project or startup.
It'll teach you a lot more than your formal education.
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Following are reading lists recommended by Gojek and Razorpay for developers:
gojek.io/blog/the-gojek…
What are some other readling lists for tech founders/developers you've come across?
Razorpay Tech@RazorpayTech
Getting vague abstract feedback about your career development or just feeling stuck? We’ve curated some of the favorite engineering books amongst Razorpay backend engineers and put them up by when you should read them in your career. Comment with your favorite books as well! 🧵
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7. @CreatorStack, helping creators globally to engage with their fans, have built their app in Flutter.
P.S. You can follow @pblead26, Google Dev expert for Flutter and Sen. Engineer at CreatorStack for learning more about Flutter!
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Flutter is now becoming the top framework for cross-platform development, competing with React Native.
Its 'Write once, Build anywhere' approach is liked by many Indian startups and is now adopted in some apps.
Here are some orgs working on Flutter:
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What’s the one thing you never expected to take so much of your time as a programmer?
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In your org codebase, what is the average number of lines a function has in it?
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