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Experience_and_Problem_Solving.pdf

Mohnish G J
August 06, 2016
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 Experience_and_Problem_Solving.pdf

lightning talk - Deccan Ruby Conf 2016

Mohnish G J

August 06, 2016
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  1. Overview of how the meetup was organized • People were

    grouped in pairs comprising of a senior and junior • The kata that people had to solve was only revealed on the day of meetup ◦ People were asked to solve the Roman Numerals Kata • Format of the meetup ◦ Two 45 min sessions for problem solving ◦ Two 30 min Breaks, one in between the sessions and towards the end • Discussion format during the breaks similar to how it is at a code retreat ◦ How do you think it’s going so far? ◦ What do you think could have helped you doing it better? ◦ What are you going to do different in your approach for the second half of the session?
  2. Question to one of the teams that completely solved the

    exercise by the end of 2nd session
  3. • Things that stood out for me(in terms of problem

    solving) from above answer ◦ Excited to solve the exercise ◦ Practicing TDD religiously ▪ Passing one test a time ◦ Identifying Patterns along the way of solving the problem Their Answer
  4. The correlation between things at the meetup and at work

    • I currently work for Sephora Digital SEA - a company selling beauty products • Had an upcoming big sale for Sephora Australia • Some performance bottlenecks needed to be addressed before the sale ◦ Shopping Cart Page - one of the bottlenecks • Few days(time constraint) before the sale to address these performance issues • Problem was identified at a high level through some load tests • My challenges ◦ Narrow down to where exactly were redis hget calls were being misused ◦ Only a few months of experience into the codebase ◦ My domain knowledge was limited around samples tiers ◦ Using a part of redis that I hadn’t ever used before
  5. Takeaways • Don’t let your lesser experience with something get

    in your way when you’re problem solving • Problem solving attitude and approach matters a lot
  6. Thank You • Credits ◦ Katrina Owen - For Exercism

    and for the inspiration(via the exercism newsletter) to share one’s story via a talk ◦ Everybody who has contributed to Exercism ◦ Everyone who were directly or indirectly involved with the April 2016 BRUG meetup on exercism • Related reading ◦ For a detailed writeup of how the exercism related ruby meetup was organized, one can read this post I wrote on medium
  7. Mohnish G J - Programmer @ Sephora Digital SEA Github

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