Sebastian Gebski

Sebastian Gebski

Geek, agilista, blogger, codefella, serial reader. In the daylight - I navigate & lead software engineering. #lean #design #aws #elixir #analytics. I speak here for myself only.

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Rhinos are where the money is

We're so obsessed with novelty in our industry: * front-end folks want to work only with the latest frameworks, and 'jQuery' is one of the worst insults * somehow the biggest problem with all the APIs is that they are RESTful, not GraphQL * the traffic from all the...

Talk is cheap, show me your product

Frankly, the idea that originated this blog post is not mine. It has all started with some observation (unfortunately, I can't recall the author, but maybe some of you, readers, will help me with that, for the sake of correct attribution) made in one of the heated Internet...

A year in a nutshell: not-a-summary

Frankly, I'm not up for any lengthy summaries. I publish many observations as my regular blog posts, and we had a recent "summary" episode of CTO Morning Coffee on Twitter Spaces recently. Neither I'm going to list personal accomplishments, goals ticked off and such...

Two years with COVID-19. I don't know where we stand.

The year 2021 is almost done, which means that our new closest friend - COVID-19 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19] - has already been with us for more than 2 years. One year ago, our situation was quite different [https://no-kill-switch.ghost.io/applying-systems-theory-to-understand-the-pandemic/] - we (at least many...

How much 'decentralized' is enough?

Web3 is a hot topic these days. No, I do not mean Web 3.0 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_Web] (so-called "The Semantic Web"), but Web3 [https://www.wired.com/story/web3-gavin-wood-interview/] - the (somehow vague) idea of building the next stage of the Internet upon...

My (personal) summary of re:Invent 2021 announcements

Disclaimer: I am an AWS employee, but these are my private opinions. Based on my own perspective on the cloud landscape, competitive context, and what I find most valuable/interesting in the cloud services portfolios. re:Invent 2021 [https://virtual.reinvent.awsevents.com/agenda/] is history. But no worries, we&...

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