Programming

I initiated a feature freeze at the start of 2024 as we didn't have the staff to support adding and maintaining any more features to the core of our product. We had turnover and layoffs and could barely support what we had already. Obviously this was unpopular off the tech team, and executives in general wanted to keep pushing new features to keep up and "capture the market with new generative AI features"

Anyways I ignored all of this and simply refused to have the team develop these features until we had more staff.

Since then, our clients feedback on our system has improved tremendously. They say it is faster, more stable and they are loving how it consistent things are working. Also, they are discovering features they never used before and are now actually using them and liking them. I don't know if they realize there was a feature freeze.

Previously they complained things were too unstable and often breaking in ways that were really bad. But the executive team wanted ABC feature done by QN so we had to deliver fast.

Now they are giving great referrals and we are getting more and more sign-ups and sales through the pipeline from good word of mouth.

Execs are now calling me a genius, saying they love how I turned around the product and saw through their true vision (by ignoring, iceboxing all feature requests) and that we've already exceeded our targets for Q2 and Q3 for the year and are set up for a great raise in 2025.

So yeah idk what to takeaway from this but I found it really funny.

Sharing my Go interview experience (4 YOE) with a US based startup working in networking/SD-WAN sector. Interview was conducted by their Engineering Director (who was also Indian) with around 22 YOE.

• Introduction : we both introduced ourselves

• Experience :

Q) what is your experience working with —microservices?

A) I shared my experience and that I own around 10 micro services in my workplace that works at x scale.

Q) Explain one of the service in depth

A) Explained end to end without revealing much of the secret sauce

Q) Discussion about a failure point -

A) while explaining the above question, he pinpointed one scenario which could lead to a failure point, I accepted that it is indeed a failure point however it has never happened and alerts are in place and SRE has the SOP of what to do in that scenario.

Live coding round

Q) Write a producer / consumer code that prints 1 to n.

A) I was able to properly write it and explained it to him. ( I had used unbuffered channel initially)

Q) What will happen if by any chance the consumer routine is not able to read from producer routine.

A) unBuffered channels are blocking channels unless the consumer reads it wont be able to push next elements.

Q) What will happen if you use buffered channels

A) Buffered channels will allow producer to push upto n elements irrespective the consumer reads it or not, however as soon as buffer is full it will block.

Q) How will you read from multiple channels in the same function ?

A) Updated my consumer routine from range channel to a for loop with select.

Q) How much handholding do you need ?

A) I am a self starter and a good documentation would help. But I feel when I am stuck its time saving to reach out to someone rather then going in the rabbit hole.

Q) Theres no documentation in early stage startups A) okay

He asked me whether if I had any questions, I asked. Can you give me a high level idea how SD Wan is different from other WAN and benefits it has ? Is SD Wan more secured then traditional WAN ?

(Check this portion in case you missed a step)

Install:

Step 1: Delete YouTube Revanced app / Delete your YouTube app (IMPORTANT: if you're like me and had YouTube installed on your phone when you got it and can't delete the app, open the settings on your phone, go to the app, click the 3 dots at the top right and click uninstall updates.)

Step 2: Delete Revanced Manager

Step 3: Reinstall Revanced Manager

Step 4: Install GMSCore

Step 5: Install the recommended version of YouTube 19.09.37

Step 6: Open Revanced Manager and click patcher, select the YouTube APK you downloaded and let the patcher run until it prompts you to install

Step 7: Give permission to login to your Google account when prompted

You should be good now. Open the app.

Buffering issue fix:

Step 1: Open MicroG Settings app and click Self Check. Scroll to the bottom and enable Battery Optimizations Ignored.

Step 2: Clear cache from YouTube app (if it's still installed on your phone)

Step 3: Clear cache from YouTube Revanced and MicroG settings

Step 4: Restart your phone

Step 5: Open the app and try it out.

Conflicting Installation Fix:

"I figured it out, you have to explicitly select the "GMSCore" option in the youtube apk patch settings before installing

Patcher -> "select an app" -> "Storage" on bottom right -> select the apk file -> click anywhere in the "selected patches" area -> make sure "GMSCore support" is selected" Provided by isniffpooper (lol) in the comments

I'm no expert, this is what worked for me. I probably won't be able to help you further than what I provided here.

For further support you should join the Revanced discord

EDIT: If this method doesn't work some others have claimed doing a force restart on YouTube Revanced can solve the issue. The mods have also suggested enabling spoofing in the micro g settings although it is a temporary fix.