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Better Programming

How to setup duration based profiling in Sentry

Debug performance issues by getting the most important transactions

3 min readOct 9, 2023

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How to setup duration based profiling in Sentry

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Neil Kakkar
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Better Programming

How to Simulate a Broken Database Connection for Testing in Django

Let’s leverage database wrappers

3 min readJan 19, 2023

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How to Simulate a Broken Database Connection for Testing in Django

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Neil Kakkar
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Better Programming

How I Take Ownership of Projects as a Software Engineer

And 5 steps for you to get started

15 min readDec 21, 2021

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Neil Kakkar

Funnels: The One Big Mental Model from Sales & Marketing

The traditional funnel is simply a measurement device. Funnels though, can be applied in a lot more places.

9 min readAug 31, 2021

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Funnels: The One Big Mental Model from Sales & Marketing

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Towards Data Science

Why Is Naming Things So Hard?

Building frameworks to generate best practices

5 min readFeb 26, 2021

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Why Is Naming Things So Hard?

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Neil Kakkar

10 Powerful Life Skills for the New Decade

Learn the rare skills of admirable people

6 min readJan 27, 2021

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10 Powerful Life Skills for the New Decade

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Neil Kakkar
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Young Coder

Understanding Permutations and Combinations from the Ground Up

Have you ever wanted to learn the first principles that underlie combinatronics? You’re going to need some bells.

11 min readJan 10, 2021

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Understanding Permutations and Combinations from the Ground Up

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Neil Kakkar

Games People Play

Learn why people do the things they do, and how to deal with them

20 min readDec 17, 2020

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Games People Play

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Neil Kakkar

Is That the Right Sequence to Do Things In?

Assuming you didn’t understand someone after you accuse them of spewing nonsense is much harder to recover from.

2 min readDec 6, 2020

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Is That the Right Sequence to Do Things In?

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Neil Kakkar
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Young Coder

4 Different Perspectives to Solve Problems

A walkthrough for solving technical problems using different lenses

6 min readNov 19, 2020

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4 Different Perspectives to Solve Problems

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Neil Kakkar

Neil Kakkar

I write about Code and Life philosophies. Sometimes both. | https://neilkakkar.com | Engineer @PostHog | Write (Code). Create. Recurse.

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