Gaurav Singha Roy – Tech Blog

Opinionated notes from an internal Zalando unconference on agentic engineering.

Some opinionated etiquettes for AI-assisted code generation, inspired by the Boy Scout Rule.

Covers the limitations of vibe coding with Claude Code for production-grade work — context window constraints, ad-hoc design, and prompt-as-context friction — and how spec driven development with Kiro addresses them.

A walkthrough of migrating a personal blog from Medium to a Hugo-based static site hosted on Cloudflare Pages.

Ten categories of non-technical work that Staff and Principal Engineers frequently take on, drawn from personal experience and peer observations.

Six work-related book recommendations from the first half of 2021, chosen from a Senior Individual Contributor’s reading list.

A case study on tapping into an existing event-driven architecture using a publish-subscribe model over Kafka.

Practical tips on navigating the developer job interview process in Germany, based on nine years of industry observation.

Three approaches to handling missing JSON properties when unmarshalling into Scala case classes with the Play Framework.

Four progressively improved approaches to concurrent programming in Go, demonstrated through a URL health checker.

Step-by-step tutorial for building a REST API server in Go using the httprouter multiplexer.