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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Why I don't condemn "serverless"

Many people claim that recent hype trains (especially the most recent one - Serverless [http://martinfowler.com/articles/serverless.html]) are not about actual novelties but more about re-visiting old patterns / practices & giving them new names (to make it feel like something new, maybe to claim the glory of...

Emerging design 101

I strongly believe in emerging design & evolutionary architecture. I've seen too much in my life ;> to believe in up-front design & beautiful pictures turning miraculously into flawless, working systems. I'll save you detailed reasoning as I've written about that on several occasions...

TypeScript has silently won the web development

Roughly 10 months ago I've written [https://no-kill-switch.ghost.io/web-for-the-impatient-using-the-language-of-the-future/] about the way Babel.js [https://babeljs.io/] (& ES6) has changed web development in such a short time. Let me remind you just my final conclusion: > You don't have to wait anymore, there&...

The first hurdle - making key technical decisions

It usually looks like this: there's already a decision about new product / project, people are extremely happy & eager to start straight away, silently expecting to "do it all perfectly" this time, avoiding all the mistakes from the past. But before they get into actual work,...

Sensational comeback of stateful services

There's nothing permanent in software engineering. Consider building services for Internet applications - for the last few years service design principles were quite straightforward: * stateless >>> stateful * sticky session (& session affinity) are made of suck * if you really, really need session, at least make it...

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