THE DEFINITIVE GUIDE

So you have your interview with a company in which you always to longed to work say Google and you aced that pair-programming session and next comes whiteboard session which is a very subjective topic as there are no few right answers like how you solved that coding challenge but you want to ace that 1-hour session and show your abilities that you could design an efficient system to crack that job. But how can you plan your preparation for this type of interview?

In this series of posts, I will try to layout a systemic approach to ace your…

DEFINITIVE GUIDE

Introduction

Java 15 which came into General availability brought a very good set of 14 features. Out of those 14 features, few are additions and few are removed/disabled from current java eco-system. Here is the list of features added

• Edwards-Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (EdDSA)
• Sealed Classes (Preview)
• Hidden Classes
• Remove the Nashorn JavaScript Engine
• Reimplement the Legacy DatagramSocket API
• Disable and Deprecate Biased Locking
• Pattern Matching for instanceof (Second Preview)
• ZGC: A Scalable Low-Latency Garbage Collector
• Text Blocks
• Shenandoah: A Low-Pause-Time Garbage Collector
• Remove the Solaris and SPARC Ports
• Foreign-Memory Access API (Second Incubator)
• Records (Second Preview)
• Deprecate RMI Activation for…

Most often the question arises if it has to be the experienced people on the team who should review the code

Junior developers are the right people to Review Code to start with. One of the main reason being is “Code Readability”. There is a saying that “If you can’t explain it to a 6-year-old, you don’t understand it yourself”. …

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Go has three variations of similar commands go run, go build, and go install. We will see in this story what is the purpose of each command and how to use them.

Each of these commands either takes a single Go file or a list of Go files. Here in this story, we will use a Go hello world program for example to refer along the way.

// file name : hello.go
package mainimport "fmt"func main(){
   
     fmt.Println("Hello, world!")}

go run

If you run the command go run hello.go in your terminal/command prompt you should see the output as Hello…

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Interface Segregation Principle

Interfaces play an important role in Java programming language and they are widely used for abstraction and to support multiple inheritances.

Interface is achieved by using a keyword interface and declare methods in it. Classes can implement interfaces with the implements keyword, and then provide implementations for the declared methods. One of the design principles to keep in mind while writing interfaces is the Interface Segregation Principle.

In Interface Segregation Principle interface should not have methods that implementing classes don’t require. Implementing classes are for no reason forced to provide implementations for those methods it does not require to. …

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Introduction

One of the principles from the twelve-factor app is store application configuration in the environment because it is most likely application config will determine the variations of deployment to various regions such as staging, production, developer environments, etc

Configurations here are such as :

1. Database, other supporting services URL’s
2. Application secrets

GO provides a standard os package which consists of functions that can help to work with environment variables programmatically. Below are the functions that can be used to interact with environment variables

os.Setenv()

This function sets the value into the system environment, In order to set you to need to…

THE DEFINITIVE GUIDE

If you were following me from the previous blog where I have explained about the mindset and preparation method before appearing your next system design interview, you are in the right place as promised here in this following blogs.

I will list out important topics, provide a brief overview and additional reading material of fundamentals to improve your system design, problem-solving. Although it’s a big list, by no means it’s an exhaustive list. So what I’m going to do is go through them one by one and give a one-line explanation on each of the concepts. Obviously, I cannot go…