Early in my software engineering career, I had an internship at Microsoft. I was working on the Microsoft Office team. We were responsible for the internals of a distributed peer-to-peer network, and it was one of the most complex applications I’ve ever worked on. My team threw me into the deep end. I had to work in…
Ken Mazaika
Internet privacy has been a major topic of conversation for a while now. And for good reason. You wouldn’t let anybody spy on your every move in the physical world. Why would you want people watching what you do online, either? People really started talking about internet privacy in the mainstream back in 2013, after Edward…
Ken Mazaika
There are people that will tell you that Computer Science fundamentals are arcane concepts that are not practical in the real world. I get why people like to talk this way. CS concepts; like trees, algorithms, and recursion, aren’t nearly as fun to talk about as exciting fringe technologies. But if you start digging into how…
Ken Mazaika
Early in my programming career, I worked for a small tech startup. We had a team of 3 developers. Because the company was so young, we had the freedom to do a lot of interesting things. The only problem was that the company was losing money. In fact, the company was losing about $500 in…
Ken Mazaika
If you’re thinking about switching careers and becoming a developer, a coding bootcamp is a viable way to get you there. But if you’ve started the bootcamp research process, you might be thinking to yourself: “HOLY COW HOW MANY BOOTCAMPS ARE THERE?!?” If you’re thinking that, you’re not alone. There are a lot of coding…
Ken Mazaika
Graduate Updates is a dialogue style series that we started to spend more time chatting with our graduates and to get a peek into their lives after Firehose. In each update, we’ll share the details of these conversations, and give you the opportunity to get to know our students a little better. In this update,…
Firehose Team