Debashish Chakrabarty, a Software Consultant based at Pune, has been on the Internet since the “geocities” days but opened his Blogger account in October 2002. Apart from this blog he also maintains a Hindi blog NuktaChini.

A Scrum Dilemma: Who does the “other work” that is not part of the Sprint Backlog?

Leveraging self-organization & cross-functionality, the Scrum Team collaborates to deliver value while also taking ownership of “other tasks”.

What does the agile principle “maximizing the amount of work not done” even mean?

The Agile Principle of “Simplicity” is one of the most misunderstood principle. However, it promotes efficiency and effectiveness by encouraging teams to work smarter, not harder.

Automating detection of security vulnerabilities and bugs in CI/CD pipelines using Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer CLI

Leverage Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer Command Line Interface (CLI) to easily integrate CodeGuru Reviewer into your Jenkins Continuous Integration & Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipeline.

InnerSource Discovery Portal

Building an InnerSource ecosystem using AWS DevOps tools

Most software companies leverage open source software (OSS) in their products, as it is a great mechanism for standardizing software and bringing in cost effectiveness via the re-use of high quality, time-tested code. Some organizations may allow its use as-is, while others may utilize a vetting mechanism to ensure that the OSS adheres to the […]

Liar Liar

Whose Lie Is It Anyway?

A few months ago, I came across this perplexing insight from the Stack Overflow Developer Survey. The question asked developers to evaluate their competence in their chosen skill set, and almost 70% of the respondents judged themselves as “above average”. Only a minuscule 10% admitted that they are below average. Even the Stack Overflow folks […]

Aiming for the Cloud Foundry Certified Developer (CFCD) certification? Here are some tips.

I recently cleared the Cloud Foundry Certified Developer (CFCD) certification and thought that I would share some tips for the benefit of others. CFCD is a professional cloud native developer certification. It’s an excellent way for the developers to demonstrate their Cloud skills in general and Cloud Foundry expertise in specific. CFCD is a remotely […]