presentations – Beginning Of Expression

Practical Git

January 14, 2020 Nikhil Wanpal Comments 0 Comment

This is a discussion on Git, the version control system. It is intended for folks with: Limited or no knowledge of any version control system Experience with Centralized Version Control Systems Experience with DVCS, but specifically git. It covers the basics of version control, DVCS, and then goes on to describe Git in a practical way, with exercise to get the team quickly started on using Git. It also talks a bit about how Git works internally, giving insights into…

Understanding Microservices: Exploding A Monolith

August 29, 2019 Nikhil Wanpal Comments 0 Comment

This is a myth-buster exercise. When it comes to microservices, the talks and blogs around are riddled with fancy and scary terms. This presentation is takes a different take on it. Instead of learning the terms, we discover the solutions to various problems and then learn what those solutions are popularly referred to as. We go through the history of software architecture to understand how it evolved in the good old days. Based on which we draw some rules of…