We came across an interesting issue at work today. My co-worker had a prototype of our ingestion service running inside azure compute emulator on his local machine. The Ingestion service hosts an websocket endpoint that the Xbox console clients needs …
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Is there such a thing as a perfect interview question? Is there a magic silver bullet that enables you to hire star performers and call an end to all your engineering woes?
I don't think so. Or that is …
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An interesting topic came up recently at work – one of my colleagues asked me – what is the worst programming interview question that you’ve faced ?
I’ve been fortunate enough to have not faced any interview question that I …
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C++ header files is a rather mundane topic by most standards. Talking about header files is not as interesting as discussing complex search algorithms or debating design patterns . It’s not an academically stimulating subject to teach, so most CS …
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I love the new C++ 11 smart pointers. In many ways, they were a godsent for many folks who hate managing their own memory. In my opinion, it made teaching C++ to newcomers much easier.
However, in the two plus …
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In the last few posts we looked at two ways of handling Transient Errors. The first post showed how we can write a custom retry logic for transient errors with exponential back-off. The second post showed how we can …
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