Douglas Parsons (@dglsparsons)

Tolerances: How Formula 1 pistons can teach us to be better developers

Recently, while procrastinating from work, I found myself watching a youtube video on Formula 1 pistons. This video seeks to answer the question: why does a Formula 1 car piston cost around 1,000 times the amount of a typical road car (£50,000 vs £50...

Jan 18, 2021 · 9 min readdglsparsons.hashnode.dev

3 popular technologies that I will strive to never use again

There are a lot of different technologies out there. More than anyone could possibly explore. The de-facto position is to look for technologies that are popular, following the logic that “if enough people like it, it must be good”. In my experience, ...

Jan 8, 2021 · 8 min readdglsparsons.hashnode.dev

Creating challenges: three ways to improve the technical assessment

Through December, I spent a large amount of time doing two things: working my way through the 2020 Advent Of Code; and assessing applications for a job opening we had at Shamaazi. The two initially sound unrelated, but part of our hiring process invo...

Dec 30, 2020 · 9 min readdglsparsons.hashnode.dev

Testing is important: three ways to easily improve test quality

It’s no secret that testing is important. We rely on tests to describe intended behaviour, catch any subtle bugs and prevent regressions in our code. But why are tests always such a pain to write well? In mature codebases tests quickly become convolu...

Dec 18, 2020 · 9 min readdglsparsons.hashnode.dev

Three unusual qualities we look for to hire amazing developers

Here at Shamaazi, we’ve recently gone through a round of hiring… and wow, hiring is hard! It’s challenging finding engineers who have the right qualities, attitude and personality to join a team. We’re a tiny company, with just 2 engineers, so any ne...

1Dec 11, 2020 · 8 min readdglsparsons.hashnode.dev

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Tolerances: How Formula 1 pistons can teach us to be better developers

3 popular technologies that I will strive to never use again

Creating challenges: three ways to improve the technical assessment

Testing is important: three ways to easily improve test quality

Three unusual qualities we look for to hire amazing developers

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Douglas Parsons's blogs

Tolerances: How Formula 1 pistons can teach us to be better developers

3 popular technologies that I will strive to never use again

Creating challenges: three ways to improve the technical assessment

Testing is important: three ways to easily improve test quality

Three unusual qualities we look for to hire amazing developers

Douglas Parsons

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Douglas Parsons's blogs

Tolerances: How Formula 1 pistons can teach us to be better developers

3 popular technologies that I will strive to never use again

Creating challenges: three ways to improve the technical assessment

Testing is important: three ways to easily improve test quality

Three unusual qualities we look for to hire amazing developers

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Douglas Parsons

About

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Douglas Parsons's blogs

Tolerances: How Formula 1 pistons can teach us to be better developers

3 popular technologies that I will strive to never use again

Creating challenges: three ways to improve the technical assessment

Testing is important: three ways to easily improve test quality

Three unusual qualities we look for to hire amazing developers