Even your backend application needs it! — Depending on the use case of your application, you will sooner or later need to implement different locales for users in your application. The days when we could implement English as the sole locale are gone. While a particular language could still be dominant in a specific world, implementing multiple…

Because feature development isn’t everything — Technologists are always passionate about building solutions that solve the problems of our users. In the process of building, technologists do not fear to use the latest technologies and stay up with our time. When a project is completed, the next project is picked up and our attention to once…

And how to deal with them — The average team member is in their natural habitat, usually skeptical from character. With good reason, new ideas and routes need to be well-thought-out and explored before choosing the best path. In these conversations with your peers, one or multiple colleagues will usually challenge the idea to make sure all…

And why I am happy with doing it! “Your idea is really awesome, but do you really need to apply a microservice architecture?” and “Why would you focus already on an entire localization system while you don’t have an MVP ready?” are two questions I heard after pitching my idea…

Why staying for longer time benefits you more — “I want to progress quickly in my salary” and “I want to get different experiences at a fast pace” are arguments that I get when asked colleagues about why they would switch jobs within just a year. But is switching employers that often actually beneficial for your career? Benefits of job-hopping Within my…

Why seniority is not only about technical excellence — When I got to a medior software engineer role, eager as I was, I started looking into the steps needed to grow towards a senior software engineer. Around me, several engineers got already into a senior position or got promoted to this next step. When comparing myself with them, in…

Prevent unwanted outages caused by malicious queries — GraphQL is one of those nice technologies that help the user to create more efficient APIs. With the ability to exactly querying the needed information, the situation of under or over-fetching should be a problem of the past. When a GraphQL API becomes more complex and circular references are getting…

Why authentication deserves a centralized place in your architecture — When moving to microservices, you will come to the conclusion that securing the microservices needs to be tackled in a different way compared to a monolithic application. While designing the solution, questions like “Where and how do I implement authentication and authorization?” and “How do I authorize users to specific…

Making your application more resilient with health checks Over the past year containerizing applications has become an extremely popular practice to quickly develop, ship and deploy applications. With the help of containerization tools like Docker, the desired container environment can be described in a declarative manner. With Kubernetes, containerized applications…