Code && Beyond

Code && Beyond

By Alexander Sulim and Pablo VicenteTechnology
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Code && Beyond episodes

  • Relational databases vs NoSQL

    In the twelfth episode of Code && Beyond, software developers  Pablo and Alex touch on the topic of databases. What's the difference  between relational and NoSQL databases? What would be a use case for a  graph database? Which database type might be better to choose for a  greenfield project?

    Notes:


    - Amazon DynamoDB - fast and flexible NoSQL database service for any scale.
    - AWS re:Invent 2018: Amazon DynamoDB Deep Dive: Advanced Design Patterns for DynamoDB (DAT401)
    - SQLite is a C-language library that implements a small, fast, self-contained, high-reliability, full-featured, SQL database engine.

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    Music by John Yasut from Pixabay.

    29 min
  • Productivity tools: Note-taking
    The first step on the journey to being more productive is to clear your head using a technique called "brain dump". The idea is simple: write down your ideas, tasks, and anything else that is taking up space in your brain, either as digital or physical notes. In today's episode of Code && Beyond, Pablo and Alex share how they organize their notes and which note-taking tools they use. From Evernote and Microsoft OneNote to plain-text files in Markdown format, Obsidian, and more.
    Notes:
    - Obsidian is a powerful knowledge base on top of a local folder of plain text Markdown files.
    - Notion is a all-in-one workspace.
    - Bring! The simplest shopping list for sharing.
    - did.txt file
    - Microsoft OneNote is a one cross-functional notebook for all your notetaking needs.
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    Music by John Yasut from Pixabay.
    32 min
  • Career progression

    What changes when you get a new job title? Does it make sense to climb  the career ladder nowadays? Pablo and Alex try to answer these questions  on episode tenth of Code && Beyond as they discuss the topic of  career progression and talk about professional and personal growth in  the field of software development.

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    Music by Asepirawan20 from Pixabay.

    23 min
  • Leaving the comfort zone

    In the episode, Pablo and Alex discuss the importance of going out of the comfort zone. Why is it hard to do? How to overcome the fear of leaving the zone of comfort and even extend its borders? All of that and many more with the usual stories from personal experience.

    Notes:

    Ready Player One is a 2011 science fiction novel, and the debut novel of American author Ernest Cline. The story, set in a dystopia in 2045, follows protagonist Wade Watts on his search for an Easter egg in a worldwide virtual reality game.

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    Music by Asepirawan20 from Pixabay.

    24 min
  • Remote work

    In this week's episode, we talk about the pros and cons of remote work. Featuring personal stories (including our experience with Google Wave) tools, tips on how to set up a home office, be more productive and communicate more efficiently, and more. Plus, we touch on the tricky question of remote salaries.

    Notes:


    - Tuple: the best remote pair programming app on macOS
    - tmate: instant terminal sharing
    - Google Wave: software framework for real-time collaborative editing online

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    Music by Asepirawan20 from Pixabay.

    26 min
  • Experiments

    This episode is all about the topic of experimentation and exploration. Who doesn't like to try a new database technology, play with a new framework, or write "Hello, world" in a new programming language? It's always exciting to play with new shiny things. But how to keep everything under control and get better results in the end?

    Alex and Pablo talk about their personal experience and share some tips and tricks on how to get even more from experiments and hack projects.

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    Music by Asepirawan20 from Pixabay.

    23 min
  • Technical interviews

    In this episode, Pablo and Alex touch on the topic of technical interviews. They share personal experiences and opinions on different aspects of conducting an interview and being interviewed.

    Code challenges! When and why they might be helpful. What's the true purpose of a code challenge?

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    Music by Asepirawan20 from Pixabay.

    28 min
  • Failures, successes, and learned lessons

    In this episode, Alex and Pablo talk about epic failures, life-changing successes, and lessons derived from them.

    Four very different real-life stories.

    Notes:

    - PlantUML is an open-source tool allowing users to create diagrams from a plain text language.
    - Insomnia - the collaborative API client.

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    Music by Asepirawan20 from Pixabay.

    22 min
  • The API Design-First philosophy

    This time Pablo and Alex touch on the topic of the HTTP API design. They share a couple of stories from personal experience and explain what The API Design-First approach is and when it might make sense to follow it.

    Notes:

    - Stoplight: develop quality APIs with collaborative API-first design.
    - marginalia Ruby gem: attach comments to your ActiveRecord queries.
    - OpenAPI defines a standard, language-agnostic interface to RESTful APIs which allows both humans and computers to discover and understand the capabilities of the service without access to source code, documentation, or through network traffic inspection.
    - AsyncAPI: open source tools to easily build and maintain your event-driven architecture.
    - OpenRPC: design and document APIs using JSON-RPC 2.0 and open source tools.
    - Monodraw: powerful ASCII art editor designed for the Mac.

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    Music by Asepirawan20 from Pixabay.

    24 min
  • Productivity methods and hacks

    Productivity is one of the evergreen topics. But what does it even mean to be productive? How to tame procrastination? Does that make sense to worry about that at all?

    In this episode, Pablo and Alex explore these and other questions, share their personal stories of becoming more productive at work and in their personal life.

    Notes:

    - Obsidian is a powerful knowledge base that works on top ofa local folder of plain text Markdown files.
    - gron transforms JSON into discrete assignments to make it easier to grep for what you want.
    - Luca (film)
    - asdf is a CLI tool that can manage multiple language runtime versions on a per-project basis.
    - Slides in your terminal.

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    Music by Asepirawan20 from Pixabay.

    32 min

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Code && Beyond is a weekly podcast with Pablo and Alex, two software engineers with more than 35 years of professional experience combined. We talk about creativity, productivity, problem…