I have been wondering consistency guarantees at scale, specially with a massive number of concurrent users.It seems that Booking.com mainly uses MySQL for most product features and use-cases and I am wondering how do they ensure that a listing is not booked by multiple users? Is the reservation system a single service with it's own storage and they run serializable transactions on it? Or do...
If you've been in a management role and switched (back) to an IC role, what's your story? Why did you make the switch?
I found two 6-course specializations on Coursera earlier, which one do you think would be a good starting point for me?
Hello everybody,I am currently a lead software engineer for an SME with over 10 years of experience building mainly Web apps and services (backend, frontend, data engineering ... etc). I have grown an interest in hardware (I have a CS degree) and ever since then I have been trying to self-learn robotics.How can I self-learn robotics in a way that allows me to switch careers? I'd like to get...
A bit about myself, I have a total of 11 years of developing software, out of which I have been technically leading a team of 5 full-time engineers for 4 years now.
I have been developing software since 2008/2009 and have been a technical team leader for 4 years now. This is definitely a big jump up the career ladder where I will be responsible for three different engineering teams. Sounds exciting.
Interview-wise:- What are the key skills that a DoE should have in order to do their job right?- How do DoEs get interviewed, in general? What does the interviewer usually look for?- What are some of the things that one should ask about during the interview process to learn more about the role?Role-wise:- What are some of the commonly made mistakes in this role, specially for new-commers?-...