🇬🇧🇺🇸 Bi-Weekly Progress #4

Two weeks went by so it's time for a new biweekly post. They were two interesting weeks for Vuuh, but not so much for my personal projects. Vuuh In the past two weeks, the focus at Vuuh, in the development team that I manage, was on recruiting and

🇬🇧🇺🇸 Does it scale?

A lot of people in the tech industry are obsessed with this term: scalability. When developing a new feature, or planning a new project, this term is thrown around a lot. People are asking continuously questions like "will it scale?", "how scalable is it?", "if

🇬🇧🇺🇸 Beginner programmers, listen here...

Beginner programmers who try to break into the software development market, listen here... This post is probably going to be a cold shower for a lot of you and you might not like it because it's not all words of encouragement. It's the reality we'

🇬🇧🇺🇸 Getting authorization right with RBAC

A recurrent topic in the world of software development is authorization. I will talk only about the topic of authorization, not authentication. Authorization is how systems figure out if certain users/actors should be allowed to do certain actions in the system, while authentication is about figuring out who the

🇬🇧🇺🇸 Bi-Weekly Progress #3

This progress report came with a slight delay, I was stumped with work and personal things that I had to take care of this weekend, and I had to delay this post. In the past two weeks nothing much really happened anyway, so this post will a brief one. Amethyst

🇬🇧🇺🇸 GraphQL vs REST

In this post, I want to talk a little about GraphQL , the newest (sort of, not) and hottest tool that supposedly helps you build better HTTP APIs and how it fits in the bigger scheme of things. I will talk about this new question technical decision makers have to answer

🇬🇧🇺🇸 Bi-Weekly Progress #2

Two weeks went by since the last update , and it's that time again, to write a little about what I did in the last two weeks. Progress is made with tiny consistent steps (I encourage you to read about Non Zero Days and the post that started it

🇬🇧🇺🇸 What's the deal with NoSQL?

NoSQL sometimes feels like an overused buzzword. Sometimes it feels like it's the shiny new thing that everybody uses in their projects. A usual debate I heard too often is about whether NoSQL is better than regular SQL (which, by the way, is the wrong thing to ask

🇬🇧🇺🇸 Coder vs Software Engineer

In the tech industry, the people who actually actively write code are an important part of the product building process. Of course, the other parts are important too (management, architecture planning, design, business specifications, etc), but the people who actually write the software are the backbone. After all, you need

🇬🇧🇺🇸 Bi-Weekly Progress #1

As I was talking in the last Amethyst Platform DevLog #3 , because of the lack of time and because I chose to focus my energy on other projects besides Amethyst Platform, I am now "re-inventing" these bi-weekly posts. Instead of a post about the progress on Amethyst Platform,

🇬🇧🇺🇸 Amethyst Platform - DevLog 3

What is Amethyst Platform? Amethyst Platform strives to be a one-stop platform for the complete application lifecycle. As soon as you push some changes to your code, we test, build, configure and deploy it so that you don't have to worry about that. Everything is managed through an

🇬🇧🇺🇸 Drastically improve your code quality with these 5 tips

As a software engineer which works with code every day, it is crucial for it to be clean and nicely structured. One thing that most software engineers are not aware of, is that your job is not to write clever code (or code at all), it is to resolve problems.

🇬🇧🇺🇸 Amethyst Platform - DevLog 2

What is Amethyst Platform? Amethyst Platform strives to be a one-stop platform for the complete application lifecycle. As soon as you push some changes to your code, we test, build, configure and deploy it so that you don't have to worry about that. Everything is managed through an

🇬🇧🇺🇸 Amethyst Platform - DevLog 1

What is Amethyst Platform? Amethyst Platform strives to be a one-stop platform for the complete application lifecycle. As soon as you push some changes to your code, we test, build, configure and deploy it so that you don't have to worry about that. Everything is managed through an

🇬🇧🇺🇸 The dev experience matters

As a technical person whose daily job is to build by either implementing new features or fixing some annoying bug, I have to dig through (my or others) code every day. With small exceptions, mornings look the same: prepare a warm cup of tea, power on my laptop. Then after

🇬🇧🇺🇸 Learn or earn

This post was inspired by Garry Tan's "Learn, earn or quit" Youtube view , which I highly recommend. Introduction This post is focused on the tech industry, because I don't really know the intricacies and particularities of non-tech industries, where growth and learning opportunities unfortunately

🇬🇧🇺🇸 Choosing the technology stack for startups

In certain online communities such as Indie Hackers , there is a certain question that a lot of aspiring entrepreneurs with a tech background ask again and again: what is the best tech stack for my next startup venture? There are a lot of technologies thrown around as answer by different

🇬🇧🇺🇸 Demystifying cloud: knowing 80% by learning 20%

There is no secret that cloud computing is already an important part of the tech industry, and it's becoming more and more adopted with each year. Companies and engineers that do not embrace it will eventually be left behind and only the organizations and teams that use the

🇬🇧🇺🇸 Common security flaws in web apps

When talking about security, hacks, exploits in the world of web application, most people think of very obscure flaws in libraries or operating systems that some attackers (or script kiddies) can exploit and gain boundless access to critical resources on the compromised server or web app. Although these are also

🇬🇧🇺🇸 My opinion on blockchain

This post was inspired by a question on Reddit: How much of your investment portofolio is crypto? Well, my answer is 0%, and it will remain 0% forever. I don't see the value in it, and the people who advocate for them are hypocrites: they say they get

🇬🇧🇺🇸 My software development rules of thumb

Over the course of my software development career, I developed some personal rules of thumb that help me structure my code better and write more readable and maintainable code. But first, what is a rule of thumb? For me, it's a principle that I adopted with the experience

🇬🇧🇺🇸 Learn to code by doing

Even thought this is basically the most common thing everybody tells you when you are growing up, I've seen that most people still don't internalize it and when they start learning something new, their first instinct is to grab a bunch of tutorials and books and

🇬🇧🇺🇸 Authentication in web apps

This post is going to be a slightly more technical one where I will talk about what authentication is, how it looks like under the hood and what you should consider if you decide (or are tasked) to implement it from scratch. I decided to tackle this topic after I

🇬🇧🇺🇸 Should you opt for a microservice based architecture as a startup?

If you are here to get a short yes/no answer, then the answer is a big no . Microservices are not worthy investment of time and effort for an early stage startup. I'll tell you why. But first, how did I come to this conclusion? Well, I started

🇬🇧🇺🇸 Should you develop a game with PyGame?

For a while now, I am flirting with the idea of making a game, based on a combination of economic simulations and space travel. At first, I tried the Godot game engine , but I was fighting the clunkiness of OOP programming with their own GDScript language too much. Then I