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A small performance story about Redis, bad assumptions, and how a stupid solution turned out to be the best one.

Recently, I treated myself with a few extra keys on my mechanical keyboard (just flexin' here), and I decided to set them up to switch keyboard layouts modelessly.

A (click)bait?

SNAPSHOTs are a confusing Maven concept.

What’s a Single Table Design?

Do you want to get a binary file from a Kubernetes pod in an highly hostile secure environment where you can’t use kubectl cp?

Yesterday, JetBrains introduced Amper.

You might have heard about preview environments (AKA dynamic, or ephemeral environments) in the scope of software engineering and, particularly, this term is used when speaking about the SDLC.

Great news, everybody: a few days ago, Telegram team updated their Bot API documentation!

GitHub Actions are great for sharing & reusing logic across your CI/CD pipelines.

Tyzenhaus is a Telegram bot to simplify shared expenses in chats.

Let me tell about a pet project I did recently.

Original article.

Have you heard that GitHub Actions are cool?

GitHub Actions are so cool!

@ImgMacroBot is was an inline Telegram bot for image macros.

You’ve heard the news, haven’t you?

A short story about wasting a day on a single newline at the end of a private key.

Imagine you have a few cool ideas for Telegram bots.

One more article about my Docker images.

I’ve been developing backend software for almost 10 years already and never had a chance to work closely with Apache Kafka.

A short story about a newbie’s mistake I’ve made recently.

YWLTB — or YouTube Watch Later Telegram Bot — is was a Telegram bot that does did one simple thing: add incoming YouTube videos into your "Watch Later" playlist.

Those of you who have some experience with Redis may know that it is not just a simple cache or a plain key-value store, but actually a data structures server, supporting different kinds of values.

I’m going to tell you how to significantly speed up the detekt task in a multi-project Gradle build.

Do you test the code that uses AWS services?

I search online every day.

I noticed recently that I’ve (almost) never used a local master branch in Git.

Gradle is an awesome build tool, and I am always looking forward to new versions to enjoy the latest features, performance improvements and bug fixes.

Amazon announced Lambda Runtime API on AWS re:Invent 2018.

I’m working on a bunch of apps that need to verify App Store receipts on a JVM-based server.

When I had to configure Lambda Proxy Integrations in AWS API Gateway for the second time for a week I thought about extracting Java classes in a small library for later reuse.

I’m using Bitbucket Pipelines widely for CI/CD at my current position.

Last week I’ve managed to accidentally break my Linux installation.

Sometimes I’m trying to show others that there is a better alternative to Maven: Gradle.

en_US.UTF-8 is a great locale and I am using it for my KDE desktop because it gives me full English UI, whereeas other locales can result in semi-translated UIs.

We’re going to organize a Java conference later this year.

So, you run mongo in disposable Docker containers and want to preserve shell history?

So, you want to use AWS SSM parameters instead of AWS Lambda environment variables?

Just use double slashes when mounting and accessing directories from Git Bash in Docker on Windows: docker run --rm -it -v //c//Users//Siarhei_Krukau//Downloads:/test alpine ls -la //test

One day, you may find yourself smoking too often or drinking a lot of coffee while waiting for the files to be downloaded during provisioning of Vagrant / Kitchen VMs.

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