(Relational) Databases are awesome
When I say databases, I think about relational database systems. It doesn’t matter which flavour of relational database you choose. They are all fine and str...
When I say databases, I think about relational database systems. It doesn’t matter which flavour of relational database you choose. They are all fine and str...
When you would rather have something properly documented than fixed.
“Ignoramus” (“We don’t know”, Latin)
Companies are discovering that hiring people to mollify critics and disappointed customers is cheaper (in the short run) than changing things, learning fr...
How to choose the best stack for your app?
Everything is a process, whether we document it or not.
I was listening to a podcast with Jason Fried the other day and heard this term: “The Joy of Missing Out” or JOMO. It took me a couple of days to process wha...
Not while I have two healthy hands.
I never lose, I either win or learn. Nelson Mandela
I’ve been doing a migration of our whole infrastructure from AWS to Azure recently. One of the services we use is Redis, which we use for caching purposes an...
Recently I’ve been notified that we need to move our operations away from AWS to Azure. One of the steps I found interesting (and never did before) was migra...
As a senior reliability engineer I’m tasked with solving weird issues on a weekly basis. Issues you could sometimes classify as heisenbugs, at other times th...
If you are reading this, chances are that you are using Ruby on Rails as your framework of choice. There have always been two main options in the past for de...
I’ve been installing servers, deploying code to them, and exposing them to customers for most of my career. I started doing it by myself in the start. Those ...
I plan to (let’s see how it pans out) write a series of articles on what I learned (and am still learning) during my stay at intuo. There is so much stuff I ...
I don’t know much about corporate culture in the past, but from what I saw, inter-departmental wars were business as usual. Marketing coming up with their id...
In order to make sure our customer data is as safe as possible, we decided to implement encryption at rest. Although we tried a few different approaches, we ...
When was the last time you’ve stopped and took a break? Not a weekend or 3-4 days, but a proper vacation. Something that lasts at least a week or two., a mon...
I’ve been limited to a 13” screen to do my work on for ages and ages, well since July 2013 at least. The only person who did the limiting was myself. One of ...
How many times did you create a UI with a specific user flow in mind, and most of the time your users did something else? Did you ever experience users ignor...