When building a client-server application, the client and server need to agree on how to talk to each other. For instance, if sending JSON, then the client and server have to agree on field names and data types. For databases, the concept is similar; without a schema, the only information…

Love them or hate them, coding interviews are often a necessary part of getting a software engineering job. The format used to be writing solutions to algorithmic problems on a whiteboard. Lately, with the pandemic, this has all moved to online platforms. Many people despise this part of the interview…

After I graduated from college made a promise to myself: I would never take a job where I got paid to write Java code for a living. I had seen the light with the functional programming paradigm and languages like Haskell. I started working at LinkedIn in 2014 when my…

While working at LinkedIn a large part of my job involved doing code reviews. There were certain suggestions that kept coming up over and over again, so I decided to put together a list that I shared with the team. Here are my 3 (+1 bonus) most common code review…

The following is reformatted from a presentation I gave at LinkedIn last year. The presentation attempted to explain functional programming without using concepts like “monads” or “immutability” or “side effects”. Instead it focuses on how thinking about composition can make you a better programmer, regardless of what language you use. …