Nelly Sattari

Engineering Manager at Atlassian, Software Engineer, Microsoft Azure MVP Based in Sydney Australia

remote teams

For Aspiring Leaders

Leading the remote teams in this new era is exciting. It brings many benefits and opportunities, plus some unique challenges (Zoom fatigue, team connection and collaboration, role clarity and more). 4Cs workshop that I attended at Atlassian Over the last couple of months, Atlassian ran a workshop for people leaders

leadership

I can do anything but not everything

We all have times in our life or career when we go through significant changes and transformations. How would you manage such situations? The story of my transition last year @2021 One year ago, when I moved to my new position as an Engineering Manager in Atlassian [https://en.wikipedia.

engineering manager

Break a leg! you, new engineering manager

Have you just started your new position as an Engineering Manager? Or are you considering it as your next move? Either way, there are some pleasures and pains associated with the role especially the first month of your journey which you might like to know. What character and personality do

TheMVPChallenge

AI for good

What recently caught my attention more than ever is the industry and the business value rather than the technology itself. Health industry is the one which makes me keep thinking of what can I do with technology and specifically AI for people who suffers from diseases in particular people with

technical team lead

What does it take to become a productive Technical Team Lead?

If you are a senior/lead developer with a passion to develop your people skill and leadership skills and push yourself one level up, looking into Tech/Team lead role can be an option among all others for you. However, before you make your decision and set a target, it

second language speaker

Challenges in public speaking for ESL

Do you want to become a public speaker in tech? CFP day conference [https://www.globaldiversitycfpday.com] is a global event dedicated to people who like to build public speaking skill. In particular, in the Tech area when you want to talk in a conference, you need to know some

presentation

Virtual presentation experience

Learn from experience and others While I was supposed to present a technical talk to developers at NDC Oslo [https://ndcoslo.com/], one of Europe's largest conference, due to Covid19 situation has changed and we all decided to keep the conference going by presenting online so I have done my

vuejs

Hybrid solution with Typescript, Vue components and ES2015+

Vue version 3 is written by Typescript and quite compatible with it but officially I am still using Vue version 2 which is not 100% aligned with Typescript. There are a few approaches for Vue version 2 depends on how much you are lookingg to use Typesript in your project

covid19

SIF(Support,Flexibility,Innovation) is what helps the teams overcome COVID-19 restrictions

My story on how I provided and get support from my team and my community over COVID19 period Life is, even now, sometimes a bit too full. Right before Covid19 my team and I kicked off a pretty complex new project at work [https://www.challenger.com.au/personal/retirement/

collaboration

Collaborating ideas with digital whiteboards

I am kinda of a person who loves to draw my thoughts and ideas on the boards! Since I was at school, I always used a whiteboard to draw the flows, I used it to learn my lessons by drawing different aspects and points, sometimes I even used it to

vuetify

JSS,THE HEADLESS CMS- PART 3 Style your Vue JSS with Vuetify

Styling your JSS Vue.js app with using Vuetify a library based on Material Design

jss

JSS, THE HEADLESS CMS- PART2

In this post, I will show how I am using JSS to build a dynamic frontend app with reusable components. Also how to build a new web app with Vuejs and JSS which is content editable and dynamic. For what use case I am using JSS? I need to design

achieving goals

Recap of 2019 and how I achieved my goals!

Never-ending Circle Of Growth It is been a few years I am drawing my circle of growth every year right at the begining of the year and sometimes during the year I look at it to remind myself the goals that I want to achieve which makes me tuned. This

jss

JSS,THE HEADLESS CMS- PART 1

> In this post, I just discuss why we need JSS and what issues might happen during the installation. Why headless CMS? One of the popular CMS is Sitecore which is based on Asp.net MVC where it's design used to be quite monolithic (versions before 9) not only in terms

innovation

Innovation and learning are two sides of the same coin!

I have done a talk recently at Microsoft Innivation day. That was an epic day where Satya Nadella the CEO of Microsoft came to Sydney and enlighten IT experts about Technology Intensity and how it can influence Innovation. Also Dr Kellermann Senior Lecturer from UNSW shared his experience that how

serverless

SignalR and Serverless? It comes true

Serverless Real-time Application! In one of my posts on Azure SignalR Services [https://nellysattari.ghost.io/real-time-applicationsazure-signalr-service/], It was discussed that with Azure signalr service we can decouple the connections from the hub logic into Asp.net core! What if you don't want to host the app into app services?

learning

Have lunch and impact on your company

It is the time to celebrate the 1st anniversary of the Brown Bag sessions I have been running at Challenger since joining. I would like to take this opportunity to share some of my thoughts on this experience. Is your lunch bag also brown? A Brown Bag meeting is an

vuejs

Building SPA module inside Sitecore

How to use Vue.js in Sitecore One of the abilities of Vue is being progressive. It means you might only introduce Vue.js core library or using full functionality of vue.js using Vue CLI. In the recent Sitecore project that I was designing the Frontend side of it,

azure app service

Azure SignalR Service with Asp.net Core/ Vue.js

Realtime applications and use cases Today's modern apps are expected to deliver up-to-date information without hitting a refresh button. Real-time apps require high frequency updates from the server. Examples are gaming, social networks, voting, auction, maps, GPS, dashboards and monitoring apps. Whiteboard apps and team meeting software are examples of

Azure signalR service

Azure SignalR Service Troubleshooting

In this post I am describing the issue I faced on creating the Azure SignalR service and how I figured it out: Grabbed the connection key and added to my project which uses services.AddSignalR().AddAzureSignalR() once I run the .netCore app and my client app Locally they are all

security

App security tips and tricks

I was in two days workshop with Troy Hunt and Here is some notes I took during the workshop to share. Some thing to remind about Browsers what you can get from Browsers are: * Viewing the source gives you the original Html source to view and inspecting element can give

sql connection

Sitecore troubleshooting

Cannot establish the connection to sql Sometimes when you try to ligin to Sitecore, you will get this error: There might be several reasons but first check if you can connect to your local DB directly in SQL management. 1. open your config file to see the connection string (it

log vs throw

Exception handling in Sitecore

There are two use cases for exceptions and logging handler in Sitecore which I am quickly clarify the differences. 1- Sitecore.Diagnostics.Assert 2- Sitecore.Diagnostics.Log In some scenarios your code throw an exception which should be handles in try/catch blocks. However, in others you would check if

NDC

Why companies should send the employees to the conferences?

I recently was nominated to attend the NDCsydney conference which is one of the biggest and most popular events in IT. During the conference I had a chat with a friend discussing the fact that "should companies really send the employees to the conferences while they have access to all

polyfill

Would you like to use ES6 Promises?

JavaScript is a progressive language and browsers improve their ability to understand the new features of JavaScript over time. For some features you might want to wait for browser to support otherwise you should get Babel to transpile ES2015+ feature to ES5 for you, so all browsers will recognise them.