Akshay @ProgrammerMonk

Programming || Richard Feynman || Marcus Aurelius || Books || Minimalist || Tweets on Tech/Books/Work/Philosophy akshayd.dev Bangalore, India Joined June 2011

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Akshay @ProgrammerMonk

3 days ago

Probably the best CS advice in a single picture. Source- teachyourselfcs.com

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Akshay @ProgrammerMonk

2 weeks ago

Staff Archetypes. staffeng.com/guides/staff-a…

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Akshay @ProgrammerMonk

2 weeks ago

When working with / building a storage systems, I so much prefer "append only" form of writes. Makes dealing with concurrency, crash recovery and sequential writes - so much easier.

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Akshay @ProgrammerMonk

2 weeks ago

".... technical skill, product thinking, project execution, and people skills. And the more senior you get, the more you’re expected to contribute to each." joshs.bearblog.dev/being-good-isn…

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Akshay @ProgrammerMonk

4 weeks ago

When to Emit What O11y Signal? akshayd.dev/2025/09/04/whe…

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Akshay @ProgrammerMonk

a month ago

SLO's! 100% green is great, but if your SLA is 98%, use that 2% to test in prod. Break things intentionally (maybe) and test that things will really on that rainy day.

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Akshay @ProgrammerMonk

2 months ago

Be it music, code, technical writings or whatever.. are you "producing" ? Some of the best advices to come back to every few months. guzey.com/personal/what-…

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Daniel Cazzulino 🇦🇷🗽 @kzu

3 months ago

@dhh @lexfridman I loved this advice to young programmers: "If you like programming, you should learn programming. Just be content with all outcomes." This is how I live too. Great life lesson 🫶.

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you need the founder. you need the founder there - he actually needs to be present. if the founder is gone it's over. this is why you can't invest in founders that are normal. normal people would stop pushing as soon as they have a modicum of success. you need insane founders

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Akshay @ProgrammerMonk

3 months ago

I am very skeptic when it comes to using any for of AI for doing the first draft of Writing. Writing is how I "Think". And it's true for many, imo. I read the post below recently, and concur the feeling on writing (thinking) with AI. dcurt.is/thinking?utm_s…

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3 months ago

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Akshay @ProgrammerMonk

4 months ago

The best Software Architect role description that I have read : "instead of the superhero we need “super glue” architects—the guys who hold architecture, technical details, business needs, and people together across a large organization or complex projects"

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Akshay @ProgrammerMonk

5 months ago

"Q: How to destroy your social capital? A: Request a lot of changes on a PR."

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Akshay @ProgrammerMonk

7 months ago

If you are a Staff Engineer or above, you need consume this. paper.dropbox.com/doc/Sammys-Tec…

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Akshay @ProgrammerMonk

7 months ago

The author of the book CODE, Charles Petzold, is making Logarithms understandable. I love this his latest work. lostartoflogarithms.com/chapter01/

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Jaana Dogan ヤナドガン @rakyll

8 months ago

Faking PTO to write code is a globally useful tip.

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Akshay @ProgrammerMonk

9 months ago

I was making some notes from everything I have done around metrics in the last year, but then ended up turning that into an elaborate blog. Metrics in #Observability space are overused. If you don't pay close attention, you will over pay the vendor. performanceengineeringin.wordpress.com/2025/01/07/obs…