Deepak Karanth is the founder of SoftwareYoga.com. His passion is to help organizations create great software. He blogs regularly on both the technical and the human side of software development.
Ever Wondered Why You See Bad Code Everywhere..? I have been contemplating over the last number of days as to why we as an industry keep producing bad code all the time. The number of developers who are able to build systems with high quality code are far and few in between, as the cliche goes,…
My contribution to DZone Performance and Monitoring Guide I am delighted to announce that I am a featured author in DZone Performance and Monitoring Guide that released recently. Download now! This guide contains everything from finding the root cause of a performance issue to designing parallel algorithms. Find out what 600 developers (including myself) have…
Recently I was invited as a speaker in one of Ireland’s largest technology event, Tech Connect, held in Dublin on the 25th of May 2016. It is a gathering of 3000+ key decision makers from the Irish and international tech sector and provides an unique forum for technology companies, start-ups and investors. I spoke on…
What are the most difficult programming languages to learn? Most people would have written some code in programming languages such as Java, C, C++ etc. Going back a bit further into the past, many would have programmed in Pascal, Fortran, COBOL etc. While starting out on the learning curve, most of these languages might have posed enough challenges…
How do you define Legacy? What are some of the best practices to bring DevOps practices to legacy applications - where should you start? This week, I appeared in a panel discussion on CI and CD for legacy applications, as part of Continuous Discussions (#c9d9), a series of community panels about Agile, Continuous Delivery…
This is the third in the series of posts on SOLID Software Principles. We previously covered the Single Responsibility Principle and the Open-Close Principle. In this post, I will take you through the L in SOLID, the Liskov Substitution Principle. The primary idea behind the Open-Closed principle is achieved using inheritance i.e. introduce new classes for new functionality and keep…
It’s been a decade since we have had Scrum development methodology introduced to us. I like Scrum, it is really the best way to deliver more value in a measurable way. The roles and responsibilities are clear and it gives autonomy to the development team. However, the one role that bothers me is that of…
This post is intended towards the non-technical people working in the Software industry, specifically towards the non-technical manager who leads teams of developers. I hope to have a series of at-least two posts on this topic, if not more. Pitfalls of a Non-technical Software Manager (This post). Ways to improve management skills by developing technical…
Latency In a computer network, latency is defined as the amount of time it takes for a packet of data to get from one designated point to another. In more general terms, it is the amount of time between the cause and the observation of the effect. As you would expect, latency is important, very…
Today I’m going to pen down about an interesting topic on architecture - Minimum Viable Architecture. Often, most architects try to design the entire product upfront. They try to think about what might be needed one year down the line, two years down the line etc. And then most of it ends up in the…