How to efficiently find the latest related row in a JOIN — Introduction Relational databases can be tricky sometimes. I am currently working on an application that deals with some assets owned by our clients. Those assets are created in our platform and from time to time they have some of their information updated. Let’s take Vehicles for example. I had a table…

Building a contextual logger — This is the continuation of my previous article about logging context. Check it out to better understand the purpose of what we will build. Give your logs more context How to make sense out of your Node.js web app logsitnext.io TL;DR The code we are going to build on this story is on my Github. …

How to make sense out of your Node.js web app logs — Logging might be one of the most difficult things to do right when building a real world application. Log too little and you will be staring at your screen trying to make sense of them (or the charts generated from them). …

There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses. — Bjarne Stroustrup, creator of C++ I love Javascript and the freedom that comes with it, but some of its parts are definitely broken. I recently realized that the null keyword is one…

No, this is not “yet another article on he hype of blockchain”. Some people tend to see the crypto-currencies and the blockchain technology as the holy-grail of the 21st century, the think that can save all humanity from perdition. However, I do believe that the blockchain technology is the right…

Today I had a problem with one application that was happening only in production. For some reason, the application was freezing on the server, while it started normally in my computer. Classic: “It works on my machine!” It took me a while to figure out why, because I had to…

A few weeks ago I wrote about my journey into Terraform. You can read more about this quest here: How I learnt to love and hate Terraform in the past few weeks The tale of a joy/pain-ful lonely journey into the infrastructure-as-code worldmedium.com Now I’ll try to summarize some learnings I had during the process. Foreword Before really started exploring this infrastructure-as-code world, I’ve heard a lot of blabbering about Terraform.

The tale of a joy/pain-ful lonely journey into the infrastructure-as-code world — Once upon a time… I might have said this a couple of times, but the best and the worst part of working in a startup environment is the diversity of activities you enroll in. …