Stories From the Trenches

A practical look at terminal emulators, shells, and a handful of CLI tools that can help streamline your workflow, save time, and reduce friction in your daily development tasks.

Performance testing is essential to ensure your system performs reliably under real-world conditions. This blog introduces Locust, a powerful and scalable load-testing framework, guiding you through its setup, data preparation, and script writing. Learn how to handle bulk test data, analyze Locust’s detailed reports, and use its intuitive interface to identify performance bottlenecks and make optimizations for a more reliable system.

Backlog grooming is an essential practice for restoring clarity and direction to struggling projects. A poorly managed backlog— filled with outdated tasks, unclear priorities, and abandoned ideas— causes inefficiencies, delays, and reduced morale. Cleaning it ensures alignment with project goals, creates actionable tasks, prevents bottlenecks, and boosts team confidence. By prioritizing regular backlog grooming and focusing on clarity, teams can transform chaos into structured progress, setting the foundation for successful delivery.

Introducing our Contact Card Generator - a simple yet powerful tool designed to modernize business networking while reducing paper waste. By generating a custom QR code containing your professional contact details, we’re making it easier than ever to share your business information digitally. No more carrying stacks of paper cards or mixing personal and professional contact details on your phone. Simply create your QR code once, save it to your device, and share it effortlessly whenever needed. Whether you scan it directly or download the VCF file, your professional connections can instantly save your contact information to their phones. It’s our small contribution to making networking both smarter and more sustainable.

Managing dependencies of your project is something that no one wants to do, but it is a necessary part of developing a project. When you have a set of runtime libraries that you need to use across multiple projects, it becomes quite challenging to make sure that your project is using the correct version of the common dependencies between the library and the project. In this post, we will take a look at what version catalogs are, how they can help you simplify dependency management, and how you can use them in Gradle.