Shabbir Ahmed

Software Engineer with deep interest in Mobile and Open source technology.

[Shabbir Ahmed @shabbirahmed]

@vfsglobalcare I’m trying to book an appointment in New York for a Malta short-stay (Schengen / Type C) visa, but the website is only showing Long-stay (Type D) options. Can you please advise how to book a short-stay appointment or share the correct link/process?

[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

A common mistake of many first-time CTOs or VP of Engineerings:

Mandating that all engineering teams in their organization start working {the same way using methodology X}.

They usually feel this is a big win for them, and the company. In reality: it's almost always a disaster.

[Uncle Bob Martin @unclebobmartin]

After the first hundred lines or so of code are working -- stop!
Shuffle, shuffle, shuffle.
Aggressively refactor. Get it right before you start rapidly adding thousands of lines. You'll be glad you did.

Get the seed right, then let the crystal grow.

[Suhail @Suhail]

Progress is sometimes just getting a different error than the one you've been getting for the last 30 minutes.

[Sir Vivian Richards @ivivianrichards]

Congratulations @imVkohli on a stunning run as the Indian captain. You can be very proud of what you have achieved so far, and for sure, your name will be up there among the best leaders in world cricket 👏

[Suhail @Suhail]

Making the core feature of your product faster, stable, and simpler will often matter more to users than most net-new features they might use. I am always surprised by how far you can go and how much it still matters.

[Vinod Khosla @vkhosla]

I'm willing to fund hospitals in India that need funding to import bulk planeloads of oxygen or supplies into India to increase supply. Public hospitals/NGO's also pls reach out @PMOIndia @MoHFW_INDIA @timesofindia @INCIndia #IndiaFightsCOVID19 @htTweets @IndianExpress @GiveIndia

[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

For the record, at Uber, we're moving many of our microservices to what @copyconstruct calls macroservices (wells-sized services).

Exactly b/c testing and maintaining thousands of microservices is not only hard - it can cause more trouble long-term than it solves the short-term.

[Scott Hanselman 🌮 @shanselman]

It’s ok to have Imposter Syndrome! You’re not alone. #programming #codetok #CodeNewbies https://t.co/HUgSWhwdlA

[Dan Rose @DanRose999]

I was at Amzn in 2000 when the internet bubble popped. Capital markets dried up & we were burning $1B/yr. Our biggest expense was datacenter -> expensive Sun servers. We spent a year ripping out Sun & replacing with HP/Linux, which formed the foundation for AWS. The backstory:

[Allen Holub. https://linkedIn.com/in/allenholub @allenholub]

Code coverage is only marginally useful. It makes no guarantee that the tests that are doing the coverage are testing the right things.

[Vala Afshar @ValaAfshar]

A 1973 job application, Steve Jobs

[Charity Majors @mipsytipsy]

Literally the first question I ask people when they start complaining about software ownership related dysfunction. Always.

"Are your software engineers on call for their code yet?"

Skin in the game. It changes everything.

[Shabbir Ahmed @shabbirahmed]

@JakeWharton See if https://t.co/O7w6qZwBQn meets you needs. Have used them in the past and was happy with their pricing and quality.

[Vala Afshar @ValaAfshar]

In 1989, futurists predicted what the home would look like in 2020. #CES2020

[Brian Guthrie @bguthrie]

Unpopular opinion: Microservices are slower to build and more expensive to operationalize than most enterprises anticipate when they venture down that path, and there's no guarantee they'll improve your cycle time when measured on a user-visible feature basis.

[Sam Altman @sama]

Most careers turn into sales jobs when you get senior enough.

[Vala Afshar @ValaAfshar]

If 100 people lived on earth: 🌎

—1 has 50% of money💵
—56 no Internet💻
—14 can't read📘
—13 no clean drinking water💧
https://t.co/DU26hATDEr

[Vala Afshar @ValaAfshar]

A good recipe: be stubborn on the vision and strategy and flexible on the details and tactics. —@JeffBezos

[Mike Murphy @mcwm]

This is awesome: The code that controlled the flight software on Apollo 11 to get it to the Moon is now on @github
https://t.co/H2WdKq6Q6U