Category: Quickies
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The Outdated Syndrome

I was attached to an old script. But I’m still proud of it. It was MY script. But as the project evolves, the script gets outdated.
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Which Authentication System to Choose?

Choose the right authentication system without compromising the security. This may be a hard topic to handle on every project.
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Problems I’ve Learned After Using Microservices Architecture for 10 Years

Don’t use a microservices architecture to create a new project. Don’t add complexity. I’ve worked on 3 projects with microservices architecture which shouldn’t have use it.
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How to Use the Fluent Style to Easily Create a Dataset for My Unit Tests

When writing unit tests or integration tests, I have to create objects. Sometimes with a lot of mandatory fields. Instead of repeating this, instead of using utils methods, I use the Fluent style.
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The Major Problem I’ve Faced When Using AWS Ecs to Deploy Microservices

I’ve been using ECS to deploy my microservices for many years. But this service is not ready for real-world projects.
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The Fastest Way to Read Dict in Python

Have you ever wonder which is the fastest way to access a value in a dictionary in Python? In the current article, I’ve tried to answer those questions. I made a small benchmark where I try to figure out which is the fastest way to read a dictionary in Python.
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What You Should Know When Using Liquibase

A lot of years working now with Liquibase. It’s a powerful tool to integrate into every application which has a database connection. Still, there are some best practices to take into account if you don’t want Liquibase to be against you.
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Feedback on AWS Proxy RDS with AWS Lambda

When I’ve decided to migrate the calculation process to AWS Lambda, I didn’t take into account the enormous CPU consumption on RDS this will lead. Still, there is a solution for that, the Proxy RDS.
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I Quit Gitflow

For months, I’ve been thinking about stopping to use Gitflow on the project. In this post I describe the reasons to quit Gitflow and the alternative I’ve chosen.
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How I’ve Optimized a Batch System by 30 Times

In this post, I explain how I’ve optimized a batch operation by 30 times with some best practices.
