There are good reasons why you want to learn Lisp. As Paul Graham said, the reason why you want to learn it is the same as the reason why you want to learn Latin. You probably won’t use Latin. But, the knowledge will enrich your experience with the language you …

Being a cloud native application developer requires access to cloud resources. I have been a cloud native developer, building applications in AWS. To be an effective cloud native developer, we need access to the cloud environment. In every company I’ve worked so far as a cloud native developer, I first …

I remember when I was a DataStage developer in circa 2014. All I did was making DataStage jobs. I was working on an enterprise data warehouse. In that company, they were using it for batch integration between systems. So, I also maintained those jobs. It was my first ETL development …

# Tips to Be a Good Code Reviewer Reviewing other people’s code is an important skill as a software engineer. Here are some tips to be a good code reviewer. General Rule Generally speaking, we should prioritise PR over your task if you are assigned as a reviewer. Any lingering …

Throughout my career as a software engineer, I have raised many pull requests. I have raised good ones as well as bad ones. Raising a good pull request is as important as being able to code. Raising a bad pull requests wastes everyone’s time and distract team from what is …

Being a software engineer does not mean all you need to do is to code. The modern software engineer cannot be a lone genius with a single-minded focus on only coding. We must work well in the team, understand business, have a sharp focus on delivering business values, practice continuous …