A high-performing team isn’t built by chance—it’s forged through trust, shared goals, and a pursuit of something greater. Whether syncing like Pacific Rim pilots or a doubles badminton team, true success comes from coordination, accountability, and recognizing both the Supermen and the unnoticed Clark Kents who keep everything running.
If you wish to take one message out of this conversation, here it is “there is no one right way to agile”. Rather there are almost infinite right ways, as many as the number of teams in the world. The challenge lies in identifying the right way for your team and being prepared to iterate
In my earlier teams, I was used to working with traditional vision statements, the catchy and multi phrased single sentences. However, I found them confusing and not to serve the purpose. Lately, our team tried out Michael Hyatt’s vision script technique and it was an interesting journey.
Our team just completed three weeks of working fully remote and we will continue this for at least a few more weeks. This is unknown and strange territory. Our team is spread across two cities and we are used to having talks over a screen. But, this can’t be compared to a situation where the whole office starts working from home.
I believe not many teams or organisations leverage the full potential of code reviews. It’s a simple tool/process which brings so much discipline and collaboration within and between your engineering teams.
We had an all-day masterclass with Sam Newman on Microservice integration patterns. We covered several interesting topics and had some nice discussions. This is an extended list of bookmarks and ideas I picked up
I spent 3 days at GOTO Berlin conference and it was amazing. Learning so much interesting topics, exchanging ideas with others and having so much fun. I am surely going back to Düsseldorf smarter, wiser and humbler. Here are a few good thoughts I picked up along the way – part 1/2
When you interact with an external service, you have to make sure it’s availability does not affect your applications. The circuit breaker pattern can be used to handle downtimes and throttles from external service.
Read more on the trivago tech blog how we used AWS Step functions to handle this.
Late in 2017, our team started the journey to replicate some of our data stored in on-premise MySQL machines to AWS. This included over a billion records stored in multiple tables. The new system had to be responsive enough to transfer any new incoming data from the MySQL database to AWS with minimal latency.
The combination of AWS Kinesis with AWS Lambdas was a commonly used pattern. Here is what we learned, read more on the trivago tech blog
A few weeks before Christmas 2016, I and my wife made a decision to move to a new city. What made this really interesting was that the new city was halfway around the world. So, wrapping up, mid-March 2017, we reached Düsseldorf, Germany all the way from a small city in south India.