Goals are not rocket science, right? Just make sure they are SMART [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMART_criteria], confirm the specific objective value, and get yourself busy, striving to get there before the deadline is due, correct? In fact, many do just that. I find it an equivalent of...
Pandemic has sped up some phenomena, changing the world forever. One of them is the global equalization of the digital society. Your location and nearest vicinity do not play such an essential role in your life anymore - more and more interactions have moved nearly exclusively into the digital space....
Tym razem post po polsku, co niekoniecznie często zdarza się na tym blogu. Skąd ten wyjątek? Będę pisał o swojej pracy, o tym czym zajmuję się na co dzień - podobnych opisów w języku angielskim (stworzonych przez moich kolegów i koleżanki na podobnych stanowiskach) jest pewnie dużo, a mnie zależało...
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 discussions on...
I bet that nearly everyone in the software-crafting industry has heard about YAGNI [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_aren%27t_gonna_need_it] ("You Ain't Gonna Need It") principle. But what about TAGRI? TAGRI (which is nearly as old as YAGNI) stands for "They Aint Gonna Read It". And...
Do you know what my first realization after I put "Chief" (... Architect/Technology Officer) in my job position on LinkedIn was? That I have so many new friends ... Nearly immediately, I started getting tons of messages from various altruistic salespeople who apparently wanted only two things in the world -...
In two previous posts, we've covered the nature of "serverlessness" & how it's implemented in stateless, raw-compute services. Now it's time to raise the bar ... Speaking about stateful services, let's start with something familiar to nearly everyone - transactional, relational, ACID-compliant SQL-based database. In our case, it will be Aurora Serverless...
Some say that the most important prerequisite for dealing with a problem is admitting its existence. So yeah, I'm probably addicted to mechanical keyboards. If I remember correctly, I now have six fully operational, top-notch models already at hand (2xDasK, 1xWASD, 2xKeyboardio, 1xKeychron). The recent addition to the family is...
The previous post in the series (where we covered the definition of "serverlessness" and how Lambda functions correspond to it) can be found here. A very similar idea of "serverlessness" has been applied in another compute service - AWS Fargate (or, to be more precise: ECS on Fargate). What's the...
Disclaimer: this post wasn't planned at all, but the concept kept bothering me, so I couldn't resist turning it (spontaneously) into a blog post ... Let's consider Web APIs, for a minute. For a reason, as they are still the foundation of the Internet as we know it. The typical way...
Nothing happens without reason. The same applies to the origin of this post, which was triggered by two independent events. First of all, some time ago, I visited a local meet-up dedicated to software architecture. The main topic of the evening was "serverless", but for some reason, in the participants'...
