⚖️ Balancing product vs platform engineering as an SDET️
Strategies and tips on how to approach platform engineering work while working in a product team as an SDET
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BYOL: bring your own learning ⚡️
A post on how self-learning on your own time can bring you compounding effects in your engineering career that your day job just might not!
TribeQonf 2024 Debrief
Talks I saw and what I learned from them, tools and solutions explored at booths and the people I met
Testing gRPC #5: Load test a gRPC service
Learn how to write a load test for a locally hosted gRPC Java service using locust4j and run it on a local locust python-based master service
Testing gRPC #4: How to E2E test a gRPC service
Explore how to write a Functional API test for gRPC API with the live service
Testing gRPC #3: How to unit test a gRPC client
Grasp internals of how a client is written, and unit test it with a positive and negative case with a fake service implementation.
What I wish I knew about Software Testing and growth at the start of my career 🌱
A random unordered list of skills, approaches, habits, and growth ideas that I wish I had known at the start of my testing career to mature and compound faster
Testing gRPC #2: How to unit test a gRPC server
How is a service method implemented, What is the basic anatomy of a server unit test, grasp GrpcCleanupRule, InProcessServer and InProcessChannel. Let’s go ⚡
Testing gRPC #1: Set up a gRPC server and make an API call via gRPC UI
What is gRPC, its basic nuts and bolts, how to setup a server and explore APIs via gRPC web UI
Dev: QA ratio A tale of burnout? Is there a better way out?
A deeper look at disproportionately staffed engineering teams and what can we as leaders do to nudge this into more healthier and balanced directions
How WhatsApp tests software?
How do engineering teams at Meta enable Quality for an app with a 2B+ monthly active users
Engineering practices @ Meta: #8 Performance review process
How does Meta do performance reviews for their software engineers? Let’s find out. 🤓
Engineering practices @ Meta: #7 Focus on impact and data
Meta-engineering culture is driven by obsessing over the impact and the use of data to support and inform decisions. This is a core engineering value and lea...
Engineering practices @ Meta: #6 Better engineering and focus weeks
Meta encourages engineers to spend time on work that improves engineering efficiency and also take time to huddle for a week to focus on creative problem sol...
Engineering practices @ Meta: #5 A culture of transparency
How engineers and leaders at meta promote an Open culture of transparency through Weekly Q&A, Bring your own coffee (BYOC), Office hours and sharing cont...