Jul 17, 2022Team Goals Over Individual GoalsIn a conversation with a senior engineer at a multi billion dollar successful Silicon Valley tech company, the likes of which we cite in case studies and conversations, I observed a major anti-pattern in how work happens on the team to meet business goals. We were discussing a challenge…Leadership6 min readLeadership6 min read
May 23, 202210x engineers or 10x impact?Hiring 10x engineers is hard for most companies. It’s a tough battle out there for talent, sometimes an endless chase when every company on the planet (including FAANGs) is fighting for the same talent. In times of such tough competition in the hiring market where 10x engineers are high in…Engineering Mangement5 min readEngineering Mangement5 min read
Jan 4, 20222021 — Year In ReviewI have been thinking about writing personal year in review for the last two years but somehow never really managed to get past the laziness and make it happen. Even though 2022 has already started, it’s not too late to get this done, especially when I have been trying to…Year In Review10 min readYear In Review10 min read
Published inLambda by Blinkit·Jun 10, 2021Managing key-values in Consul using ConsulKV CRDWe have been deploying applications on Kubernetes for over two years. We mostly followed a lift-and-shift approach while migrating to Kubernetes. We looked for everything that Ansible used to do for us and tried to replicate it in Kubernetes. At first, everything seemed to work. But over time we realized…Kubernetes8 min readKubernetes8 min read
Published inVaidik Kapoor·Jun 6, 2021Technology Vendor Risk — Check the Product Strategy and RoadmapEvery company today most likely has vendors in their technology landscape. There are ways and parameters that technology teams use to assess risk while selecting vendors. …SaaS6 min readSaaS6 min read
Feb 17, 2021Why Senior Engineers Hate Coding Interviews17.1K148Adam StormVery well said.Very well said. I have felt the same way when I had been subjected through a similar interview process. At my current employer (Grofers), we try to keep interview as realistic as possible: * scenario based questions * building a real-world software or a small component * explicit call out…1 min read1 min read
Published inLambda by Blinkit·Nov 3, 2020Learnings From Two Years of Kubernetes in ProductionAlmost two years back, we took the decision to leave behind our Ansible based configuration management setup for deploying applications on EC2 and move towards containerisation and orchestration of applications using Kubernetes. We have migrated most of our infrastructure to Kubernetes. It was a big undertaking and had its own…Kubernetes16 min readKubernetes16 min read
Published inVaidik Kapoor·Oct 11, 2020Yet Another OKR TemplateThere are more than a dozen OKR templates and tracking tools out there. We started adopting OKRs at Grofers a couple of years back and went through our cycles of adopting the methodology. While adopting a new way of working, having the right tool can accelerate the transformation. We explored…Okr3 min readOkr3 min read
Published inHackerNoon.com·Aug 1, 2018Need for better documentationEven though we all agree about the importance of good documentation, there seems to be a widespread failure on our part to act on this belief and pay attention to how we document our software. Why does this happen? I have often seen documentation not being the focus of teams…Software Development14 min readSoftware Development14 min read
Published inVaidik Kapoor·Jul 9, 2018Managing Open-Source Docker Images on Docker Hub using TravisI was working on a small project recently to learn working with the Docker tool chain and get an idea about how things work. I decided to build (yet another) open-source Docker image of etcd and publish it on Docker Hub. Like all open-source projects, building a working Docker image…Docker10 min readDocker10 min read
