Kunal Mandalia

Kunal Mandalia

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I’d tried to read the novel ‘The Brothers Karamazov’ twice before giving up. After a 100 or so pages the plot and characters became hazy. I’m trying again. I noticed that there frequently appeared words I was only vaguely familiar with. Phrases that were popular in the 1800s but unfamiliar today. Google Dictionary has been […]

Climbing the call stack and tumbling back down

While consulting at Eurostar we wanted to understand how incoming requests flowed throughout our 20+ microservices and especially at what point throughout this chain of requests bugs arise. We had logging throughout our services but did not append a correlation id to the logs so we lacked visibility of the lifetime of a request to response. One way […]

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Character in a junior developer

I’ve worked alongside and mentored some junior developers over the past few months while contracting. This post is written for the junior developer to help them build a better working relationship with their mentor. 1. Respect your mentor, don’t idolise them Listen, observe, and synthesise your understanding from working with your mentor but beware of […]

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Essential reading from a mentor

I asked my friend and mentor Dr. Leon Hewitt for the books which have shaped his career in software engineering, here’s what he had to say Extreme Programming Explained Kent Beck (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Extreme-Programming-Explained-Embrace-Change/dp/0321278658/) If you only read one book about software development make it this one. This book (well the 1st edition) started me off on a journey […]

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