How Dependabot Keeps Our Dependencies Up to Date
Keeping project dependencies up to date is always a challenge. Fortunately, Dependabot can help with that.
Software Engineering
Practical lessons from my work as a software engineer: Spring Boot migrations, observability and tracing, RabbitMQ, contract testing and production stories.
My Software Engineering Philosophy: Guiding Principles
This document is a set of principles that are part of my software engineering philosophy
Insights from Mentorship: Three Key Learnings
The mentorship with Aleksey provided an invaluable opportunity to learn from his extensive experience and gain insights into his approach to work
The importance of the prefetch count in RabbitMQ consumers
Prefetch count is a very important parameter that we have when configuring consumers in RabbitMQ, this real-case scenario shows an example of this
RabbitMQ Quorum queues definition arguments
Classic queues are deprecated and are going to be replaced by Quorum queues, which are durable, replicated FIFO queues built with data safety as a top priority
Observability Basics
Learn what is Observability and the basic signals that allow a system to be observable
Cache in a microservice environment: A short overview
Caching frequently used information is a very good approach to speed up your microservice. In this post we show a brief overview about caching
Platform Team: What It Does and How It Helps a Company Grow
Our main goal as the platform team is to help improve the developer experience and help the company to deliver more
PostgreSQL GIN Index: Long Random Queries on Data Updates
We were seeing random queries taking as much as 35 seconds on our Postgres DB. The cause was GIN index feature that you have to get to know
RabbitMQ High Availability: Tips for a Better Broker
When taking RabbitMQ to production, one of the main concerns is how to have high availability of the queues and exchanges