Victor MorenoWhy NextJS SucksI’ve used NextJS for static websites because the experience with amplify hosting is so insanely easy. The fact that I go on the AWS console…Jul 2355Jul 2355
Victor MorenoManaging Burnout for Yourself and Your TeamTL;DR: 1. Your capacity to work hard without burning out is not fixed. You can affect it yourself by training it like a muscle, and your…May 25May 25
Victor MorenoinStackademicLessons Learned From The Trenches Developing Event-Driven SystemsPeople hear phrases like “modern microservices architectures” and jump bandwagons without knowing what they’re getting intoApr 297Apr 297
Victor MorenoIDPs, OIDC, Oauth2, and JWTsA quick primer on the high-level concepts involved in offloading user identity management to a 3p systemMar 172Mar 172
Victor MorenoBasics of RAG (retrieval augmented generation): Create Your Own Custom GPT PrototypeNov 21, 20231Nov 21, 20231
Victor MorenoAll Code is Tech DebtAll code is tech debt. All of it. It is baffling to me that this even needs to be said in 2023, but it does. In this essay I will explore…Oct 30, 2023Oct 30, 2023
Victor MorenoWhy My Pick for Startup Infrastructure in 2023 is still EC2TL;DR: there’s no reason to overcomplicate things. In this post I give you a basic autoscaling ec2 infrastructure definition that will take…Oct 9, 20231Oct 9, 20231
Victor MorenoWhy So Many Brilliant People Are LosersThere are many ways in which people conspire against themselves. Many of them are emotional, such as fear of failure and…Oct 9, 2023Oct 9, 2023
Victor MorenoWhy Most Your UX Ideas Are a Waste of Time But You Might Wanna Do Them AnywayA mental model for understanding why UX improvements almost never improve conversion rates and what to do about it.Sep 7, 2023Sep 7, 2023
Victor MorenoEstimating Max Theoretical Performance of an n+1 Microservice APILet’s say you have an API that calls some other API concurrently 30 times (or 40, or 50, or however many). This is rather common in a…Aug 30, 2023Aug 30, 2023
