Recently I came across John Crickett‘s Coding Challenges. John suggests a lot of fun challenges to learn a new programming language or technology. The first one is writing our own wc tool. Since I have used wc frequently and I am learning Go, I decided to try implementing the wc tool in Go. wc provides… Continue reading Coding Challenge – wc
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DevSecOps
Security used to be an afterthought during development, or security would come in late in the release cycle. This meant that security issues were found late in the development cycle and close to the final release, and there would not be sufficient time before the release to fix all security defects found. Security has been… Continue reading DevSecOps
Artifact Repositories
The artifact repository is one of the less heralded components of a CICD system. During development and builds, there can be different types of artifacts that may be in use to build and create packages. There might be packages to be pulled from MavenCentral or a PyPi repository as dependencies to build new packages, and… Continue reading Artifact Repositories
Skydiving
I wanted to go skydiving since 2018. I had purchased a Groupon deal, but I had to cancel that plan due to a foot injury. Recently, I signed up for a Launchpad with Careershifters to learn how to explore and identify alternate career paths. This is a workshop where we have different missions every week. The first… Continue reading Skydiving
Styles of Leadership
During a recent monthly coaching session, Coach Srikanth shared 3 leadership styles: David Goleman’s Six Leadership Styles (Commanding, Visionary, Affiliate, Democratic, Pacesetting, and Coaching) Ken Blanchard’s Situational Leadership – SLII (Delegating, Supporting, Coaching, and Directing) Tannebaum-Schdmits’ leadership continuum (Tells, Sells, Suggests, Consults, Joins, Delegates, Abdicates) I read Ken Blanchard’s book – Self Leadership and the One Minute Manager, recommended by Coach Srikanth, and… Continue reading Styles of Leadership