Arun Venkatesan

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Library Oriented Architecture

11 June, 2017

Part 5: A better architecture for mobile apps I had my Serverless Architecture plans in place but I hadn't worked on the app in a few months...

Microsoft To-Do

19 April, 2017

Just as quickly as I started getting used to the my Wunderlist/OneNote system, Microsoft announced their new To-Do app. Presumably built by...

Organized Productivity with Wunderlist and OneNote

21 July, 2016

I like making to-do lists. I just never get around to doing them. It's even less manageable when you're trying to keep track of day to day...

Hello Ghost

13 July, 2016

The very first post of this blog started with how I ended up building a static blog using Jekyll. While I enjoyed learning new tools and...

Going Servless

28 May, 2016

Part 4: A new type of backend for mobile apps Typically we tend to think of the server+database as the single source of truth with all the...

Authentication as a Service

24 May, 2016

Part 3: Rethinking mobile app signups It was the fall of 2015, and up until now I had only completed the login/registration and team...

Code as Craft

10 May, 2016

Part 2: Building mobile apps on the side I initially planned to have a beta ready for the spring 2014 season which was 4 months away. As...

A Brief History of Lead Dog

26 April, 2016

Part 1: An idea for a mobile app A few years ago we decided to join a corporate softball league at my company. We played exactly 2 games...

Javascript Frameworks

27 May, 2015

The transition to Swift has gotten mixed reactions from the team. It is not easy to get started with a new programming language...

Hello Jekyll

24 October, 2014

Update: Currently my blog is running on Ghost. You can read more about it here. After months of building, learning and rebuilding, the site...

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