Busy Dad & Engineer. Building cool things and learning in public.
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It's been a while since I started to work with AWS. I like it a lot, but several things used to be particularly challenging to me, and IAM was one of them. More often than not, I had issues with services refusing to work together due to incorrectly s...
About a month ago, I read about FastAPI when I was skimming through some blogs. It didn't take long until my team at work had to build an API for the app we develop. Because the API isn't too complex, we decided to try out something new, and instead ...
Recently I faced an exciting challenge. I needed to create a robust logging system integrated with an external API. One of the requirements was to have specific contextual data logged whenever it was available. The main issue was that a lot of it was...
Coming from a Ruby on Rails background, I really appreciate solutions that became community standards of solving problems. One of such things is DatabaseCleaner gem, which ensures that your tests run in separation and there are no data leaks between ...
The company I work for tries to mitigate the social impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Once in a while, we have on-line coffees and lunches. During one of them, we were exchanging stories about how we started to code. When I finished telling mine, I sa...
At the beginning of my career as a Ruby developer, I used to work on a project that had barely any tests. This, combined with poor code quality, made the development of any new feature similar to a walk through a minefield — you never knew if your ch...
