Design Philosophy: Observability

I enjoy philosophy. Stoic philosophy in particular. Philosophy, I think, helps us revalidate our purpose. It acts as a yard stick and makes sure that we are not moving away from our First-Principles. Applying the same to Software Engineering, in my opinion, every team should have a “Design Philosophy”. What is that one yard stick which teams can use for making better decisions. Infact, it is done in some forms in a few cases. Some call it Guiding-Principles. Some call it MVPs. I call it “Design Philosophy”. ...

September 14, 2025 · 3 min · Akshay Deshpande

Weekly Bullet #1 - Summary for the week

Hi All ! This is an idea that I have been planning to try for quite sometime now. A summary of what happened over the week. A weekly bullet would come out every Saturday and it would cover: What interesting stuff happened in Tech or Non-Tech world over the week –(Not NEWS) Extracts from the books that I am reading (somethings which have hit me hard) Resources Tech/Non-Tech that I might have come across. So here is the First of something New. ...

March 25, 2019 · 2 min · Akshay Deshpande