Building your Communication Strategy
In this article, I discuss communication, which I believe is the most important aspect of your role as a people manager.
Structuring your Engineering team
Today I discuss what I learnt from trying different team structures to optimise engineering delivery. I explore the functional model and the pod model and their pros and cons.
What I look for in my hires
In here, I discuss the 7 qualities I look for in my hires - Predictability, Empathy, Autonomy, Adaptability, Growth potential, Ownership and Problem solving.
What I learnt about hiring
During the last year, Affectv has experienced rapid growth. We have doubled the engineering team in the last 8 months. This is a compilation of some of the things I learnt about the hiring process.
Cookie Mapping in Advertising
In this article, we will cover the process of cookie mapping (or cookie syncing) and how advertising companies use it to exchange information with websites and advertising platforms to serve relevant advertising to a user.
Building a url shortener in 10 mins
A 10 minute guide to building your own url shortener i.e. a service that lets you shorten a long url to a shorter url that takes up less number of characters.
Apache Pig Tutorial
An unofficial Apache Pig tutorial for the beginning and intermediate user which covers the basics of Pig and moves on to the more advanced concepts.