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In the Plex - Book Review

On the face of it, the book can be looked at as a story of Google - from a niche startup to the industry behemoth we know today. While that is the overall theme, it goes much deeper than that and tries to answer the question - what makes Google tick?

October 30, 20203 min read

Thinking, Fast and Slow - Book Review

Daniel Kahneman writes the book with a simple goal - Enable the reader to have smarter water cooler conversations. Drawing on his research, spanning decades, he presents an introduction to cognitive psychology and how it applies to a variety of scenarios - from day-to-day life to economic theory.

October 18, 20203 min read

The Project Phoenix - Book Review

I never thought that I won’t be able to put down a book related to DevOps and it will end up being one of the most riveting stories I’ve ever read. Alas! I was wrong.

September 20, 20202 min read

UI Testing with Postman

Postman is a great tool to build and test APIs. However, it can also be used to test and monitor your websites. Read more to learn how to maintain your web applications.

November 01, 20197 min read

Why should I write good commit messages?

People recommend writing good git commit messages without explaining "why". This article provides real-world scenarios which showcase their importance.

July 05, 20197 min read

Building highly customizable React components

React provides a way to build web applications using components. This blogpost outlines ways to design components for high degree of visual and functional customizability.

October 20, 20188 min read

The Brahmastra called Materialize

Knowing how to build a basic websites is a very useful skill. Learn how to use materialize CSS to easily build your websites.

March 06, 20163 min read

Web scraping with Python

Scraping the web using python is very easy. There are a lot of libraries available which bootstrap a lot of things for you. This post uses requests and BeautifulSoup to scrape a university email client (POP is disabled).

July 20, 20153 min read