What is EventStorming?

How would I describe the EventStorming technique? It’s a straightforward, intuitive, enjoyable way to discover the…

Tuning search relevance with Apache Solr

Confronted with increasingly large amounts of data, we need to go the extra mile and really underline the importance of the search box as the first place users go to explore and find the things they need, on their own terms.

Parallel processing challenges when using message queues in PHP applications

The 10 things I’ve learned about personal development that will help you be more productive.

Working with Ceph Object Storage

What is Ceph?

Ceph is an open source distributed object store and file system designed to provide excellent performance, reliability and scalability.

Why should I use it?

A Look on Creating and Maintaining an Axure Widget Library

Remove duplicates from products catalog: product matching

You probably never heard of product matching, but you have seen it in action, for sure, every time you went shopping online. It’s the engine powering price comparison websites and marketplace platforms.

EventStorming in eMAG

What we learned, where we failed and how we improved our process.

Redis caching — speed up your API

A few months ago, when eMAG started the eMAG TechTalks presentations, I was given the opportunity to show the way we’re using Redis as a caching system to speed up our API response.

Introduction to Apache Thrift

Recently I gave a presentation to our development team about Apache Thrift (https://thrift.apache.org/) — great software framework that allows applications written in different programming languages to communicate with each other. What differentiates it from other solutions is…