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The Rule I Learned to Love When Ariel and I started Ariga, he introduced a rule that I honestly thought was going to drive me insane: no pull requests over 100 lines of code without a very good reason.

Reflections on a weekend project with an AI co-programmer Almost four years into Ariga, I don’t get to write code as much as I’d like, but occasionally I encounter some interesting problem that seems small enough to tackle in a short amount of time and I…

In the past year and a half, I’ve been working on Atlas, a database schema management tool that we’re developing at Ariga.

One of the reasons that I enjoy programming in Go so much is that its design is so elegant.

Protocol Buffers (Protobufs) are a popular open-source interface definition language (IDL) that was originally developed at Google.

Debugging is like being the detective in a crime movie where you are also the murderer. — Filipe Fortes (@fortes) November 10, 2013 Debugging is the process of diagnosing why a software system fails to behave correctly.

Credits: The solution described in this post is based on Alex Eagle’s suggestion in: https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel-gazelle/issues/773 While migrating the Nexar backend mono-repo to use Bazel as our main build-system I encountered a particularly pain…

Introduction Let's stop fooling ourselves.

A first dip into DIY static code analysis One of the special things about software engineering as a profession is the possibility of ars-poetic work: part of our work is building tools that target our own work; perhaps a few surgeons around the globe can…

The DRY principle is probably the first software design concept you learn when you start coding.

Apache Spark provides a very convenient abstraction layer for building distributed applications that process massive amounts of data.

Is there a name for the pattern where you build your own <something> that isn't your core competency or interest because the 3rd party alternatives are lacking features you need... but then the 3rd parties catch up and you are stuck with your hacks?

Introducing TechNex, Nexar’s internal R&D Meetup One of the things I like doing most as part of my job at Nexar is hosting TechNex, our internal, bi-weekly R&D meetup.

It is today easier than ever to generate a lot observability data (metrics, logs and traces) from your applications and forward it to a central location where you can efficiently query it.

As your software-organization grows in: headcount, service count, programming language count it becomes increasingly harder to coordinate work.

Reading and writing TLV-encoded messages with Go Recently, I’ve worked on implementing a high-throughput networking component at work.

Previously on “Serverless Applications” In this series’ previous parts (part 1, part 2), we discussed how we test and deploy Lambda functions as a part of the CI/CD pipeline for our serverless configuration microservice.

We built a serverless microservice to manage our customers’ pipeline configuration in ironSource atom Recap In the previous part of this series, we began the tale of the serverless microservice we created in ironSource atom to help us manage the configura…

At ironSource’s Data Solutions dept., we work on ironSource atom, a data flow management platform to help our clients easily deal with massive amounts of data.

You Gotta Love Frontend (YGLF for short) is an annual conference for Frontend Developers held annually in Tel-Aviv.

Demo: https://kahootclone.firebaseapp.com GitHub repo: https://github.com/rotemtam/kahootClone A little while back I wrote a story on Medium about why local-multiplayer games should be the future of gaming.

The Zen of teaching your friend how to Code More than a good programming course, more than excellent Googling skills, to climb the mountain of Learning to Code, one needs a guide.

Not many know this, but a new genre of digital games is slowly emerging.

My favorite characters in spy movies were always the gadget-making-mad-scientists building crazy little machines which help the spy-hero to pull off his amazing feats.