Sidekiq is an awesome workhorse for efficiently running background jobs. Whether it be sending emails, processing huge amount of data etc... Maybe that is why for many of us, background processing in ruby ( rails ) is synonymous with sidekiq. All thanks to is efficient use of memory and concurrency…
Introduction: Why did the product manager bring a compass to work? Because they wanted to stay on course with their North Star Metric! Jokes aside, in the world of product management, a North Star Metric is no laughing matter. It's the guiding light that helps us steer our products in…
Introduction When you walk into an ice cream store, they ask you to test the ice cream before selling it to you. Why? They do not want to sell you something you might not like and eventually end up with a poor sentiment about the brand. As a product company,…
Introduction There are several reasons why a product manager should use product prioritization techniques. Product prioritization techniques help in maximizing the impact of a product, managing possible product risks, making data-driven decisions, and also help product managers take a customer-centric approach knowing what feature to build next. In this article,…
A Stored Procedure is an user defined SQL code that contains a sequence of SQL instructions. A Stored Procedure can be thought of as a function in other programming languages. Stored Procedures are not part of standard SQL. But, multiple RDBMS providers provide the Stored Procedure functionality. What is it?…
Introduction A successful product is one that always finds the sweet spot between customer needs and business objectives. In this blog let's see why user research is important for a Product manager. Customers, after all, have a primary job to do, and a good product should make that job easier…
In the ever-evolving world of product development, one principle stands out as a beacon of wisdom: "dogfooding”. My leaders insisted on it about 14 years ago when I started in product. My leaders and I cannot stop bringing this topic up every time we talk to our product team members. …
