In this piece I would like to describe a practice I adopted a few years ago, after seeing how effectively colleagues were applying it. The idea of what I will call structured debugging is very simple: Document every step of the debugging ef…
I’m one of those people surprised at the success of the Go programming language. Here is a language that prides itself in offering less than languages designed decades ago, unabashedly not OOP, and without a decent dependency management sys…
I’m rather certain that you will come to the same conclusion, esteemed reader, as I did, namely that the Thinkpad X220 is the best laptop ever made, in consideration of the following points. You will have to accept that that’s quite a barga…
In the first part of this tutorial, we looked at provisioning AWS EC2 resources using the CLI client, and delved into the details of how various networking components function. In this second part, we will look at using containers instead o…
Recently, I started working on moving an application that was deployed manually to an AWS EC2 instance to a more modern, infrastructure-as-code setup. This gave me the chance to dive deeper into AWS concepts, and play around with the variou…
Cython is one of the best kept secrets of Python. It extends Python in a direction that addresses many of the shortcomings of the language and the platform, such as execution speed, GIL-free concurrency, absence of type checking and not cre…
Kubernetes is the hottest kid on the block among container orchestration tools right now. I started writing this post when we decided to go with Kubernetes at Twyla a year ago, and since then, the developments in the ecosystem have been sim…
I had the chance to attend KubeCon Europe in Copenhagen last week, and it was a total blast. The attendance was huge, with developers from all over the world, and I had great conversations with many different people. There were countless ta…
I don’t have to explain how popular JSON is. There are very few projects that don’t need to work with JSON, even when they are not related to network programming. The ubiquity of JSON is causing some developers to rely on it a bit too much,…
Scrum is now the default agile software development methodology. This management framework, which is “simple to understand but difficult to master”, is used by 66% of all agile companies. After two extensive workshops, more than five years,…
If you have interacted with PostgreSQL at any point in your developer career, you have met it: The autovacuum daemon. It fires up every now and then, consumes resources, and disappears again, without telling you what it did, and why it ran
Last two years of my working life have been spent on an e-commerce application that is mainly occupied with coordinating inventory items, orders and shipments. The main user interface of this application is a REST API tied to an Angular fro…