Toward the end of summer last year I wrote an article about this incredible tool that I found called Sprkl, at that time it was only a VScode extension that proved to be very useful when dealing with code and implementation of new features but not limited since it provided…

Kubernetes has become the go-to tool for managing container-based infrastructure and is part of the daily life of every engineer. By now, we all know how much it means when it comes to managing clusters of servers and containers, big or small. How much it helps to make our life…

Following up on my previous article, Techniques for Optimising SQL Queries, I’m going to go through two more topics for improving the performance of your queries and database. Caching SQL queries result set Table Partitioning — What is Partitioning — What are the types of Partitioning — Why Partition —…

As we all know, SQL databases are one of the most used databases nowadays. They can be used in different use cases starting from small applications like a simple newsletter subscription database up to really big databases for data analytics. Due to this flexibility of use, the bigger the database…

Nowadays, teams are working more and more in a Infrastructure-as-Code mode, but not only, and this is enforcing and as well as making heavily use of version control of the codebase and using platforms like Bitbucket, GitHub or Gitlab combined with Git to manage that version control. …

There is always a continuous discussion on which programming language is the best and which is the worst. …

Developing any application, in any technology, is a complex process. We have to think about a lot of things like architecture, what technologies to use, which modules, how to properly maintain it, what helper libraries or third parties we need to use, and the list goes on. Here we’re going…

In my previous article about AWS Lambda & GitlabCI, I tried to explain based on my experience how the deployment of an AWS Lambda function can be automated by using GitlabCI. I wrote about the challenges of dealing with environment variables and migrations, but these are not the only challenges…

It’s a continuous struggle to keep our application readable, stable, performant, and maintainable during its entire lifecycle and constant changes while evolving every day to provide more options and features. On top of that, the team that works on the application evolves too. Team members switch context from one part…