Handling Offline Payments with Stripe

We use Stripe for managing customer payments and subscriptions at Recruiterbox. Stripe works really well for us because it handles the complexity of managing credit cards and the entire subscription lifecycle from trial periods, recurring charges, payment retries…

The way we work — Celebrations

We don’t need a reason to celebrate. We celebrate birthdays, wins — big or small, new born arrivals in people’s families…

An Introvert Experiment: What I learned when I met (some of) my team

Here is a fun experiment — let’s take the most introverted remote employee we have, fly her 8,000 miles from home, and stick her with 30 coworkers for 3 weeks.

Notes from taming a hairy feature

Reflecting back on the 2 months spent working on an expansive feature gave me some new insights and also corroborated my beliefs in some existing practices.

TL;DR: Get all the help you can. Question Everything.

Delinking releases and deployments

Releases for application development used to be a big event during my early career stages. There were multiple cycles of QA, UAT and business acceptance before deployment happens. The deployment also had lots of complexities as the dev environment and production…