I remember that when I started with AWS, one of the first things I did was interact with S3 Buckets, back then it wasn’t even a big deal to have your Bucket Public so that you could serve your assets without hassles. …

Serverless is awesome! On the other hand, it might take some time to get used to the tons of AWS Services out there which can be used to build an application. And it can happen that you end up with an architecture that is unnecessarily complex and costly. Think of…

Recently we started a big refactor of an application that was running on another team’s AWS Account. Our plan is to move to a serverless architecture using our own account to gradually dismiss the old one. In order to achieve that, we deployed a Lambda on one account which was…

Let’s admit it. Code reviews are bottlenecks. Most code reviewers are gatekeepers. By controlling and ultimately deciding what gets into the main branch they slow down the entire process — screwing the original estimates and jeopardizing the sprint. I am myself often a gatekeeper.

How many times in your software development career have you heard the following quote? If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail. Also known as The law of the instrument or golden hammer this quote by Abraham Maslow describes a…

I hate notifications. I hate having my attention and focus withdrawn by that tiny little number or red dot on the doc or on the corner of the page I am working on, that hijacks my intentions to something else every time I pick up my phone, that instills in…

Resilience is the ability to recover from or adjust easily to adversity or change. Generally speaking in software engineering, resilience means that your system/application is able to withstand a failure in one of its components, work nevertheless, and eventually recover in a reasonable manner and acceptable duration. Chaos Engineering is…

With every day more new people learning to code, and new developers starting a blog and with Blogging being so important for your professional growth and your personal brand, I decided to share some tips I realized to be a winning strategy over many years of blogging. Here it goes…

Whenever I tell this to my kids and come back 5 minutes later, I go crazy because the floor is still covered by socks, pencils and basically any other toy which is not a Lego. What did I say? Tidy up your room! Why didn´t you pick up all that…