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I gave a talk at #devopsdaysNewy on 24-Oct-2018. It was a great conference with lots of amazing people.
I want to thank the organizers for putting together such an amazing event. I want to extend the thanks to the sponsors who made it possible :). It was very good couple of days to meet new people and form a network. I think my talk on microservices went pretty good too. It was my second devops days and I enjoyed it.

Breaking down a big feature into epics and stories is always tricky. Then you have sub-stories making the process complicated. If you could deploy the finished task that delivers value to the business it would help. Enter feature flags, using this, you can deploy your code to production behind a gate. Code and feature are on production but not fully released to everyone. This post is going to help you adjust your mental model for getting more benefits with feature flags.

Will you use a gun to kill a fly? The answer is NO. The same thing goes when you want to write a microservice application that is going to be maximum of 10K lines of code. Don't over-engineer it. Ok, you have been writing and maintaining large code bases. Some might be 100K+ lines of code but you need to get over your habits and think differently. This post helps you unravel the mysteries of writing small and maintainable microservices. The suggestions are opinionated but it is in practice in a million dollar business.

Docker has been popular in the technology space in the past 5 years is an understatement. It has exploded in usage and popularity in half a decade. Containers have taken us by storm. Newer applications without containerization feel like it is missing something. Docker has stood out to be the king in the container arena. This post details the reasons to use Docker for your development environment.

“For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.” ― Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics. Imagine you already read 3 books about cycling. Then someone gave you a cycle and asked to ride it, will you be able to ride it? The simple answer is "No". It is not about how much have you read about cycling or how many videos did you watch about it. It is about getting on a cycle, balancing on it, learning the feet, hands and eye co-ordination. Same goes for learning a new tech skill, a new language or framework.