"Music’s the only way that makes me happy." – Miguel, Coco

Hey hey!

Hope you all had a great weekend! Mine was spent attending Lollapalooza in Bombay. Here’s a pic from the music festival :)

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Interesting links for the week

Instead of sending a bunch of random links your way, these are all things I’ve read or seen and found interesting and relevant enough to share!

• Kubernetes Gets a New Resource Orchestrator in the Form of Kro

• How to Build a Classic Snake Game Using React.js

• What Is Network Address Translation (NAT)

Something that sparked my curiosity

I’ve recently started to appreciate the importance of learning by reading docs as an engineer. I’ll be honest—before this, the way I learned new technologies was through video tutorials. This time, when I wanted to learn React, I went through the docs and was impressed by how much more quickly I learned. I think it’s also a better way to learn because it’s very easy to zone out in passive methods of learning, like watching videos. Whereas reading requires more effort and, hence, attention. One downside of this approach I realized is that in docs, there is sometimes a lot more info than needed when getting started (or ever, in some cases). How do you folks deal with this?

Golang puzzle of the week

You are given a number n (e.g., 1234). Your task is to write a Go program that generates a sequence of numbers based on the following rules:

1. Start with the number n.

2. For each subsequent number in the sequence:

   • Multiply all the digits of the current number together.

   • If the product is a single-digit number, stop the sequence.

   • Otherwise, repeat the process with the new product.

For example, if n = 1234, the sequence would be:

• 1234 → 1 * 2 * 3 * 4 = 24

• 24 → 2 * 4 = 8

• 8 → Stop (single-digit number)

So the sequence is [1234, 24, 8].

Here’s some code to help you get started:

package main

import (
    "fmt"
)

// Fill out this function to generate the digit product sequence
func DigitProductSequence(n int) []int {

}

func main() {
    // Test cases
    fmt.Println(DigitProductSequence(1234)) // Expected output: [1234 24 8]
    fmt.Println(DigitProductSequence(9876)) // Expected output: [9876 3024 0]
    fmt.Println(DigitProductSequence(5))    // Expected output: [5]
}

You can write solutions to this in the Go Playground and share the link with me on LinkedIn to get a shoutout in next week’s newsletter!

Who’s hiring?

• HyperDX is hiring for a Frontend React Developer in the US (remote, San Francisco preferred)

• ControlMonkey is hiring for a Senior Account Executive in New York

• Yugabyte is hiring for a Software Engineer in India