On any given day, how much time do you spend in meetings?
Software Development, Finance and AI10 Loka 2020

On any given day, how much time do you spend in meetings?

Now that a lot of the world is working remotely, there are probably even more meetings than there already were, and there used to a lot to begin with! Keep an eye on the time spent in meetings. i. Do you need to have as many meetings as you do? ii. Can they have fewer people? iii. Do you have a sense for the collective human hours spent in them? ## Snowpal Pitch You can track these things on our SaaS platform as well! 1. Our SaaS Product - https://pitch.snowpal.com 2. LIVE (Web-only) demo - https://consulting.snowpal.com/pitch 3. App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/snowpal/id1502153924 4. Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.snowpal.pitch Be Organized. Be Happy. Be on Pitch.

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Reusable UI components (React and beyond) - both presentational & functional

Reusable UI components (React and beyond) - both presentational & functional

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Caching - What to Cache, and When to Cache (Part 3)

Caching - What to Cache, and When to Cache (Part 3)

Caching is a broad topic (what isn't?). In this podcast, I've only tried to scratch the surface. How do you determine what to cache? And once you do, how do you go about it? #snowpal aws.snowpal.com l...

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Caching - Are you optimizing before identifying the problem? (Part 2)

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If your pages take too long to render, caching may be a solution but before you go all out and start implementing or improving it, ask yourself if there are other fundamental problems that need addres...

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When looking to make performance improvements, it is natural to look for that ”single” big problem. But, that’s hardly ever the case.

When looking to make performance improvements, it is natural to look for that ”single” big problem. But, that’s hardly ever the case.

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Keep your code DRY. As in, super DRY! Code duplication is a maintenance nightmare.

Keep your code DRY. As in, super DRY! Code duplication is a maintenance nightmare.

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Libraries vs Frameworks (based on my rather loose definition of it!) - What’s your preference?

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Should you implement that next requirement now, later or never?

Should you implement that next requirement now, later or never?

Before you implement something, ask yourself if it needs to be implemented at all. #snowpal #softwaredevelopment #requirements Subscribe to our APIs on aws.snowpal.com.

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