Clearing the Confusion: A Comprehensive Guide to Creating AWS Users, Assigning Roles, and Permissions for New AWS Users. — When you first create an Amazon Web Services account, you begin with root user, a single sign-in identity that has complete access to all AWS services and resources in the account. Amazon team strongly recommends to create another user for your everyday tasks. As for new starters it can be…

Why Dash may be the next choice for your monolithic business application? Quite recently I’ve been fascinated by the beauty of NextJs. It comes very handy when you need to build a quick monolithic application with great visuals and deploy it fast. (Why would I separate Front-End and Back-End logic…

Trivial tips on how to code faster without compromising quality Recently, I’ve read “Modern Software Engineering” by David Farley, which elaborates on durable principles at the heart of modern software development. I think this book is a great source for both experienced and junior engineers, though from different perspectives. …

Data Visualization can be revolutionized by adopting Game Development techniques — As a gamer, I’ve been always fascinated by the game development industry. If I had a chance to try a job position other than mine, that would be either a software engineer position in modern Game Development or in a smart modern Robotics team developing autonomous drones, vehicles or…

How habits shape our entire life & what to do with them Recently I read “The Power of Habit” by Charlse Duhigg, my first non-technical book in the last 5 years. At some point I needed to stop learning new technologies, development or architecture patterns, and instead make a step…

How to boost the software performance by caching — In previous post we talked about how to scale your app and improve its responsiveness from a very high level. We slightly touched caching on the application level, but did not talk about Web caching. Here I want bring our focus briefly to both Application level caching and Web…

RPC chains turn Remote Procedure Calls into an efficient stack — When we write applications, many of us think of REST as a common standard for inter-service communications. Yet there are many other forms of communications, RPC being one of them. It is important to note, that the choice of communication means depends on many factors like business requirements, legacy code…

Illustrated Guide on How to Scale Mobile and Web Applications — I remember writing my first application. Back then, I was overthinking the design & architecture of the application, in part because I lacked trivial knowledge of the app lifecycle: how to write the minimum viable product and then scale it out as users grow. When limited in knowledge, I needed…

When someones dives into the world of Software Engineering, one day he will need to learn the basics of Software Architecture Patterns. When I was new to coding, I didn’t know where to get a resource for a brief introduction to the existing architecture patterns so that it would not…