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A CEO just called me upset that his company suffered a security breach that cost him ₹50 lakh. As we discussed overall security improvements, we discus…
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If you’re running on EC2, you have a choice of Linux distributions. You should use Amazon Linux 2. Why? First, Amazon Linux 2 is supported till 2023. M…
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In the last few years, digital signatures for contracts and the like have become an option in India. Unfortunately, the system is broken. It would be e…
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You can implement your backend using raw VMs, or use higher-level abstractions like serverless. If you choose the former, you’re talking on a lot of De…
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Analyse the costs and benefits instead of following the herd of other startups
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Startups focus on building an MVP, a minimal set of features to bring a certain level of business success, which can be used to generate further succes…
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Instead, look at the number of cores
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To write good class- and method- level documentation for a public API , keep the following in mind: Good documentation writers are cross-functional: go…
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There are many reasons you shouldn’t work at an early-stage startup, by which I mean a startup that has raised less than $10m: • Uncertainty of income:…
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Instead run each service in a smaller VM. Why? First, if you cram multiple services in one VM, when you hit a bug, such as one that results in 100% CPU…
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Many databases model data as tables containing rows and columns. But I think that’s the wrong way to model data. Instead, it should be modeled hierarch…
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You can build client apps separately for each platform, such as once for Android and once again for iOS, without any code sharing between the two, inst…
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