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. …

From Google’s mymaps to topojson file used in D3.js It’s been a year since I wanted to design an interactive historical map for fun. When I finally started doing it a week ago, as usual, many problems started to surface. Most importantly, there was no a clear guidance on how…

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. …

Historical maps could be considered a visualization of data: both topographic and historical. By revitalizing old maps I want to preserve these data which I believe can benefit many stakeholders. Below I want to demonstrate my work through a series of images.