A few years back, I was given a take-home assignment: develop a "modern language-agnostic library...A few years back, I was given a take-home assignment: develop a "modern language-agnostic library...
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Aishwary Dhare
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• Jan 6
A few years back, I was given a take-home assignment: develop a "modern language-agnostic library to manage blob storage across local disk, MySQL, and AWS S3."
I spent 48+ hours straight mastering shell scripting and AWS S3 internals to deliver a low-level, multi-target library with wrappers for Python and JavaScript.
When I went back to the interviewers, I realized that by "agnostic," they simply meant I could pick any modern language to build it in. My solution was way over-engineered 🙃
Good part: I learned a ton! Published my first OSS contribution to GitHub – https://github.com/aishwarydhare/universal-docs-manager
Great part: That "overdone" solution eventually saved a future IoT project where an embedded hardware could only run shell script and we wanted to push data feeds to S3.
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