Apple, Google and Microsoft agree and are committed! That agreement alone is significant. These companies can’t even agree on the design of charger heads. What they do agree on is that passwords are one of the biggest security concerns and the way to fix this. These three companies combined represent…

Tools are to developers, what guitars are to guitarists. There are always new and shiny ones and you can’t possibly have enough of them. And to be honest, we as a bunch of great Googlers and Stackoverflow-Copiers need tools to sanely measure up to the standard of implementing the core…

Inter-service communication is one of those topics that reveal if a developer really knows what they’re talking about. Let’s start with a little buzzword bingo: synchronous and asynchronous, pull vs push subscriptions, event-driven, streaming, real-time, batching, dead letter, at least once delivery… Do you know all of these terms and…

Scaling stateless services is simple. Scaling databases is not. Fully managed, serverless and auto scaling databases are the essence of “heavy lifting” that the cloud providers provide. These databases are a great opportunity for developers but also a challenge, because we need to choose which database to use and whether…

Containers were and are a game changer in shipping applications. In cloud native development there is no way around Containers. Containers famously solve the problem of “it works on my machine” because they allow you to package not just the application but the entire runtime and OS environment. Before starting…

IAM is at the core of cloud computing. You can’t do a cloud project without it. It might not be the most exciting topic of a cloud project. However, it’s always an important one. Wherever there is access, there is the potential for unwanted access. Hence, it is crucial to…

I wonder what you think this article will be about. I want to share my experience of working with both GCP and AWS as a developer building cloud native services. First of all let me get a few things out of the way. I’m not going to bash on either…

The genius that invented Vue.js brought out a new tool called Vite. Local development in JavaScript has been good. Webpack’s dev server and other tools allowed for fast feedback via technologies like HMR (hot module replacement). However, as projects grow the reloads start getting slower. These delays between saving the…

On Wednesday, 3. November 2021 at 00:35 it happened, I received an email from GitHub saying “Welcome to GitHub Copilot Technical Preview!”. About half a year earlier I had signed up for the preview and was thinking that they probably weren’t letting anyone else in. Naturally, the first thing I…