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Varun Palaniappan

I am a Product Engineer at Snowpal. Subscribe to our APIs to reduce time to market for your web, mobile, & server-side apps.

Joined on Jan 2, 2024

Varun Palaniappan

Apr 16

Measuring Developer Experience and Improving it through Platform Engineering (feat. Ajay Chankramath)

3 min read

Varun Palaniappan

Apr 2

Its 2024. Software Development has changed. Completely.

2 min read

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Mar 30

Introduction to GitHub Codespaces

22 min read

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Mar 30

Introduction to GitHub Projects

16 min read

Varun Palaniappan

Mar 29

The 3Cs: Importance of Clear, Concise and Complete Requirements

4 min read

Varun Palaniappan

Mar 29

Integrating UI with APIs (and Endpoints) that are currently under development

15 min read

Varun Palaniappan

Mar 29

Things to do before using a 3rd party gem, module, package, plugin, extension or library

3 min read

Varun Palaniappan

Mar 29

Web App Development for Beginners

25 min read

Varun Palaniappan

Mar 29

Mono Repos vs Poly Repos: What works best?

9 min read

Varun Palaniappan

Mar 29

API Directory Structure: a few different options

4 min read

Varun Palaniappan

Mar 28

Creating UX Designs quickly to share with your team

7 min read

Varun Palaniappan

Mar 28

GitHub Projects: Manage repo-specific issues seamlessly

3 min read

Varun Palaniappan

Mar 28

Software Testing in a Startup

10 min read

Varun Palaniappan

Mar 25

Differences between Unit Testing vs Functional Testing vs Integration Testing

5 min read

Varun Palaniappan

Mar 25

Development Efficiency: How much time do you spend in meetings every day?

7 min read

Varun Palaniappan

Mar 25

Process Efficiency - keep an eye on the little things in software development

3 min read

Varun Palaniappan

Mar 23

MongoDB Aggregate Query: A simple example

7 min read

Varun Palaniappan

Mar 23

How many developers does it take to build the next new feature?

6 min read

Varun Palaniappan

Mar 23

Caching to improve performance: Are you optimizing a bit too soon?

7 min read

Varun Palaniappan

Mar 22

Code duplication needs to be avoided at all costs. Keep code DRY.

13 min read

Varun Palaniappan

Mar 22

Performance Tuning: Are you always looking for that one big problem?

2 min read

Varun Palaniappan

Mar 22

Reusable UI components for faster development (presentational and functional)

3 min read

Varun Palaniappan

Mar 22

Database Denormalization: For Faster Retrieval of Data

3 min read

Varun Palaniappan

Mar 21

Native Mobile App: Design Patterns & Separation of Concerns

16 min read

Varun Palaniappan

Mar 21

Ways to address Backward Compatibility issues

8 min read

Varun Palaniappan

Mar 21

How to assess Code Quality without reviewing code?

8 min read

Varun Palaniappan

Mar 21

Development Efficiency: Are you bouncing your servers a bit too often?

11 min read

Varun Palaniappan

Mar 21

Reduce ramp up time on a new software development project

10 min read

Varun Palaniappan

Mar 20

Increase frequency of Git pushes to minimize merge conflicts

7 min read

Varun Palaniappan

Mar 20

MongoDB Aggregations: Use them to improve query performance

9 min read

Varun Palaniappan

Mar 20

Building a Native Mobile App: Select the Right Framework

6 min read

Varun Palaniappan

Mar 19

Importance of UI/UX Localization & the Need for Transparency between all Stakeholders (feat. Leigh Lawhon)

4 min read

Varun Palaniappan

Mar 19

Building a Native Mobile App: First Steps

3 min read

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Mar 18

Go SDK and Go Recipes for Snowpal APIs

5 min read

Varun Palaniappan

Mar 18

Mobile-first Strategy: Should you ever build something first on Web?

4 min read

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Mar 15

UI Development: Stateful vs Stateless Widgets

2 min read

Varun Palaniappan

Mar 15

Git Commits: An approach that works well for a startup

2 min read

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Mar 15

Aspect Programming comes in real handy to solve certain types of software problems

2 min read

Varun Palaniappan

Mar 15

GitHub Branch Management: A 3-branch approach for faster feature development

2 min read

Varun Palaniappan

Mar 15

Authorization as a Service (feat. Jake Moshenko)

3 min read

Varun Palaniappan

Mar 14

Custom Attribution API: Custom Forms (Text, Date, Number, File, Single Select, Multiselect)

2 min read

Varun Palaniappan

Mar 14

Private & Group Conversations: Implement In-App Conversations in Quick Time

2 min read

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Mar 13

Snowpal Status Management API: Build Slack Apps, Microservices and more

2 min read

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Mar 13

Classroom API: Build Apps and Microservices for the Education Industry

2 min read

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Mar 11

Access Control API: Custom Permissioning (Privileges, Roles, Members, Teams)

3 min read

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Mar 8

Snowpal API: Licensing Models

3 min read

Varun Palaniappan

Mar 7

Classroom API: Integrate Snowpal APIs to build apps and microservices for the education industry

2 min read

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Mar 7

Relations API: Connecting disparate resources

2 min read

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Mar 7

Integrate Building Blocks API to Reduce Time to Market

1 min read

Varun Palaniappan

Mar 6

Snowpal Backend as a Service: API Product Suite

1 min read

Varun Palaniappan

Mar 6

Scaling High Performing, Multinational Teams (feat. Andy Hilliard)

6 min read

Varun Palaniappan

Mar 5

Benefits of using Snowpal's Building Blocks API

1 min read

Varun Palaniappan

Mar 4

Snowpal Education Platform: Publish courses and monetize your skills (Part 2/2)

1 min read

Varun Palaniappan

Mar 4

Example of a MongoDB Query that uses $elemMatch

1 min read

Varun Palaniappan

Mar 1

Snowpal Education Platform: Publish courses and monetize your skills (Part 1/2)

1 min read

Varun Palaniappan

Feb 29

Creating animated product videos is fun and cost effective if you do it yourself

1 min read

Varun Palaniappan

Feb 29

Impact of layoffs - letting go and being let go (feat. Serkan Durusoy)

3 min read

Varun Palaniappan

Feb 28

Introduction to Snowpal Podcast: Learnings from running a software startup (Part 3/3)

1 min read

Varun Palaniappan

Feb 28

Introduction to Snowpal Podcast: Software Architecture (Part 2/3)

1 min read

Varun Palaniappan

Feb 28

Introduction to Snowpal Podcast: Software Development (Part 1/3)

1 min read

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