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The Art of Delegation

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The Art of Delegation

Some time ago when I joined a team, one of my direct reports was an engineering lead there with a team of engineers and QAs reporting to them. This person was the most senior team member with ample domain knowledge. But they suffered from work overload and were a bottleneck.

Running effective one-on-ones

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Running effective one-on-ones

While being a manager, at times I observed some feelings of awkwardness during one-on-one meetings. Some of my reports didn't know what to expect, or what the purpose of the meeting was. Some thought it is the time when they had to report on their work progress in

Managing remote teams: what to remember

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Managing remote teams: what to remember

In my career, I managed both traditional teams sharing the same office and remote teams from different countries and time zones. In post COVID-19 era managing remote teams has become increasingly common as many organisations moved to hybrid and remote-first ways of working. From my experience, a remote team requires

Management styles: why it matters

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Management styles: why it matters

As a manager, I learned about different management styles some time ago. Back then I told myself: "Cool, this one looked good, this one was less fun. I feel I did more of this... So what?" Once, I got to manage a new team and I thought: "

Card Payments 101: How it works

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Card Payments 101: How it works

Have you ever wondered how you make a transaction using your payment card such as buying a cup of coffee and then a day later it appears on your bank statement? Working in the payments industry for several years, I am happy to walk you through the card payments basics.

Card Payments 101: How it works

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Card Payments 101: How it works

Have you ever wondered how you make a transaction using your payment card such as buying a cup of coffee and then a day later it appears on your bank statement? Working in the payments industry for several years, I am happy to walk you through the card payments basics.

Building .Net Core applications using Amazon DynamoDB

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Building .Net Core applications using Amazon DynamoDB

Amazon DynamoDB is a fully managed NoSQL database service that provides fast and predictable performance with seamless scalability. In this post I am going to show how to build an application using Amazon DynamoDB. If you are not familiar with this technology, you can read more here Prerequisites We need

Building .Net Core applications using Amazon DynamoDB

Building .Net Core applications using Amazon DynamoDB

Amazon DynamoDB is a fully managed NoSQL database service that provides fast and predictable performance with seamless scalability. In this post I am going to show how to build an application using Amazon DynamoDB. If you are not familiar with this technology, you can read more here Prerequisites We need

OneOf - Discriminated Unions for C#

OneOf - Discriminated Unions for C#

In my previous project I was using OneOf library by Harry McIntyre implementing F# like discriminated unions support for C#. They might be handy in scenarios when heterogenous data is returned from a method and varies in type from one instance to another. The data may include special cases, like

OneOf - Discriminated Unions for C#

OneOf - Discriminated Unions for C#

In my previous project I was using OneOf library by Harry McIntyre implementing F# like discriminated unions support for C#. They might be handy in scenarios when heterogenous data is returned from a method and varies in type from one instance to another. The data may include special cases, like

Logging using Serilog and ELK stack

Logging using Serilog and ELK stack

Logging is one of the key concerns of software developers. This is a source of information about application health and performance. From a business point of view it helps to analyze application usage and understand KPIs. I'm going to share an example of structured logging in .Net Core

Logging using Serilog and ELK stack

Logging using Serilog and ELK stack

Logging is one of the key concerns of software developers. This is a source of information about application health and performance. From a business point of view it helps to analyze application usage and understand KPIs. I'm going to share an example of structured logging in .Net Core