I heard really cool things about Amazon Athena. So I thought I’d give it a shot while enjoying a shot of delicious ☕ espresso.

In my previous segment, I shared some best practices on how to design effective REST APIs. A well-thought out design must also take into account the performance aspects of an API. …

The Move to the Cloud ☁️ As more organizations start their Public Cloud journey, chances are they will either be migrating existing APIs/applications to the cloud, and even building new ones. If you are looking into leveraging AWS, you want to make sure that you choose the right technical stack to build your APIs/applications. AWS is…

In the previous two segments, I shared some best practices on how to design and build performant REST APIs. An API that is well-designed and built for performance behaves and functions well in response to evolving customer and business requirements. …

Background Gathering insights from analytic data at a rapid pace for strategic decision making has become a key priority for companies in the last few years. The growth and ubiquity of the AWS Cloud has made it super convenient for companies to leverage various tools and adopt them for rapid application…

What is NgRx and Angular? 🤔 NgRx (shorthand for Angular Rx) is a framework for building reactive applications in the Angular framework. In a nutshell - NgRx helps to separate the logic for the application’s state management from the logic of the views that get rendered to the end user. Angular is an application-design framework and…

Sharing some of the leadership ideals I've cultivated as a software engineer over the last 6 years. — Background These tips are not listed in any specific order. Simply, the order in which they came to my mind one windy Saturday evening. Also, this is not an exhaustive list. Just the practices that I consider to be most vital in one's technical leadership journey. There are lots more! Dedicated to my Captain Bell 💛

Some background I love movies, and all things cinema-related 📽 🎞️ 🎬️🍿🎫. I truly think it is immensely cool how so much painstaking and beautiful work goes into making movies. Years and years of hard work, involving meticulous planning, growing expenses, constant deliberation and thinking. All of that hard work compressed into…

Background In my previous post, I shared some security best practices cloud engineers can adhere to when developing applications on AWS. The purpose of this post is to go into depth explaining the main AWS service behind all of those measures that makes security possible: Amazon Identity & Access Management (IAM). IAM at a High-Level …