Clément Sauvage

On the 15 and 16 of June, I participated in my first hackathon.

There is a world of difference when we go from coding on our own, starting to learn, and when we start our first real experience as a software engineer.

There are many offerings to simplify deployments of code in the cloud, abstracting away the hardship of working on bare metal machines.

This article is a draft of the though I have after seeing this video from Hussein Nasser, who is a software engineer, instructor and a person whose work I greatly appreciate.

For backend developers like me, the frontend ecosystem seems too much bloated, or at least, too much to take if we just want to have a frontend for our small application with a little interactivity on the front.

A good amount of acronyms that defines software engineering principles.

When I did not know anything about Elasticsearch, I thought it was a plug-in search-as-a-service like Algolia, that you would plug to your existing data storage.

Most software engineer overcomplicate their architecture by thinking they are doing the right thing, they are building a more robust application, or that by doing that, they will be able to scale to millions of users, even when they’re just working on a s…

Databases indices are a concept that are too often overlooked in most courses that talk about backend in general.

It is maybe that I give more attention to it, or that it is simply becoming a trendy term to use, but I am reading more and more about Domain Driven Design (DDD).

The degradation of search results # One situation every Software developer has lived, is scrolling through the results of Google in the hope the specific issue you just encountered has been posted by someone, and they documented the solution/got answers on

The habits for success are not in your routine, but in your workflow # The technologies we are using daily are all surprisingly recent, but they usually took some time to take off, and to be used efficiently.

The python case # I love python.

In this article about Kubernetes, we’ll hover the main concepts in Kubernetes and the most important details you should know as a developer to use it.

The big picture of Kafka # What is Apache Kafka # In short, Apache Kafka is a distributed publish-subscribe (pub-sub), disk based, messaging system designed for high performance.