What a Modern CI/CD Pipeline Looks Like: A Deep Dive into VSCode by Vishal Pawar on July 27, 2025 818 views
What a Modern CI/CD Pipeline Looks Like: A Deep Dive into VSCode 💡Imagine every code change you make automatically flows through testing, builds, deployment, and even documentation — with zero manual effort. That’s the magic of a modern CI/CD pipeline. It all started with a failing CI build. I was trying to contribute to Void an AI-enhanced VSCode fork, but every time a new feature was merged, something broke. Sometimes it was a missing dependency, sometimes a packaging issue, sometimes just…
Debugging Nightmares - Multi-Tab Madness in Production by Shifa Salheen on July 18, 2025 670 views
We had just gone live.Everyone was loving it, and feedback was overwhelmingly positive. UI felt smooth, flows were clicking, and things were working well for almost everyone. So when a user reported: “I logged in… and it’s just spinning & I can’t see the dashboard” — We didn’t worry much. We told them to clear the storage & it worked. We moved on. We thought they had done something wrong — maybe since they were accessing multiple…
Let’s Order a Java Object: The Hidden Life of “new” by Sahil Khan on June 24, 2025 769 views
Spoiler alert: new isn’t just a keyword—it’s a full-blown catering service that spins up class loading, memory prep, and object creation behind the scenes. Pizza myDinner = new Pizza(); To you, that’s dinner. To the JVM, that’s a mission. Let’s break it down from your craving for objects to how memory is actually used—sprinkled with insights from the official Java docs. After all, the JVM works hard behind the scenes too. 🛎️ Step 1: Placing the Order…
Semantic HTML: The Superpower Your Components Are Missing by Hasti Sutaria on June 6, 2025 707 views
🚇 It All Started on a Metro Ride… A few weeks ago, I was taking the metro back home — headphones in, scrolling through random stuff on my phone — when I stumbled upon this absolutely stunning website. The UI was breathtaking: buttery smooth transitions, bold typography, glassmorphism done right, and a color palette that deserved an award. As a frontend developer, I couldn’t help but admire the craftsmanship. “This is gold,” I thought.“I’ll check out…
The Night I Chased a Ghost Bug in My Docker Deployment by Shifa Salheen on May 19, 2025 844 views
Teaser: Scaling exposed a hidden build issue that cost me 12 hours of debugging, wrong guesses, and a hard-earned lesson about containers. My Weekend Plan Was 200 Until It Returned a 404 It all began on a cozy Friday evening—the kind where Slack and Teams go quiet, the lights are dimmed, and you're already dreaming of a Netflix binge with a warm cup of black coffee in hand. But just as I was about to…
Invisible Recaptcha: For a Seamless User Experience by Shifa Salheen on March 15, 2023 2,713 views
One of the enduring problems of the web – regardless of its evolution – is spam and abuse. While it is getting progressively easier to gather and share data online, there also needs to be effective tactics to weed out bad actors. One such tactic is Invisible reCAPTCHA. Invisible reCAPTCHA is a technology developed by Google to protect websites from spam and abuse while also providing a more user-friendly experience compared to traditional CAPTCHA. Unlike…
Jamaica! Courting The Future With Rapid Digital Transformation by Ram Gopalan on November 3, 2022 2,780 views
Jamaica, the third largest of the Caribbean islands, is entering a new era of development, riding on the tailwinds of a digital transformation movement. This thrust comes directly from the government's policy direction. So much so that Jacky Wright, Chief Digital Officer and Corporate Vice President, Microsoft US Global Technology Leader, recently lauded the country for its progress towards becoming a digital society. In line with its national development goals, Jamaica has witnessed concerted efforts…
5 Ways In Which Companies Can Drive Excellent Data Governance Efforts by Subhabrata Dasgupta on July 22, 2022 2,632 views
Data lies at the heart of digital transformation. Not all data. But data that’s easily accessible, high quality in nature and relevant. Unfortunately, without adequate organizational data governance measures, data can easily devolve into data for data’s sake. Something that degenerates into policies and guidance made into a support function executed by organizational IT teams, and not to mention not widely followed organizationally. Therefore, high-quality data governance ensures organizations don’t miss out on data-driven opportunities.…
The Importance of WHO’s SMART Guidelines In Public Health Implementations by Kunjan Patel on June 28, 2022 2,979 views
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has brought renewed focus on public health. A push for rapid digitization of existing public health infrastructure, patient health data management and interoperability were some of the effects of this pandemic by way of response. With rapid digitization, especially developing countries started to experience teething troubles and have poor data policies. As the world moves toward a digital health future, inconsistency and lack of proper guidelines and recommendations are the biggest…
5 Essential Characteristics of Data-Driven Enterprises by Subhabrata Dasgupta on May 5, 2022 2,868 views
Data is omnipresent – in every industry, firm, department, at every scale imaginable. The amount of data generated by modern businesses is already sizable, and this will grow to gigantic proportions in the foreseeable future. The numbers help get some perspective on this burgeoning scale of data. The world produces about 5 exabytes of data (2.5 Bn GB) every day. By 2025, this number is projected to reach 463 exabytes! From a business perspective, data…