Following is the list of technologies I’m Impressed by, a completely subjective metric. Since I’m not impressed often, these deserve to be listed. Impressed In arbitrary order: JetBrains IDEs…| Ilya's blog
Python is a bad fit for typical DevOps tasks.| Ilya's blog
I have a friend that likes the feeling of progress in the professional area. He considers working on a project as part of his professional development. Following our discussion with regards to stay…| Ilya's blog
For search engine indexing and for understanding: Protobuf is frequently used with GRPC. Protobuf is how the requests and responses are serialized. The Problem Look at the output below. Printing pr…| Ilya's blog
( During code review, looking at TypeScript code. ) Colleague: … type casting … Me: hold a sec, I don’t remember about anything called type casting in TypeScript Colleague: you kn…| Ilya's blog
This is a concise post, summarizing Manager Tools podcasts about feedback. Examples are mine, I couldn’t remember specific examples. Manager Tools recommendations are based on data about what…| Ilya's blog
According to Pagination using Async Iterators in modular AWS SDK for JavaScript, state of the art for pagination in AWS JS SDK is: const client = new DynamoDBClient({}); const tableNames = [];…| Ilya's blog
Background Let’s look at the following piece of code (in an abstract programming language) : if chairs { for chair in chairs { clean(chair) } } The Problem It’s more code that we would …| Ilya's blog
The title of the post is the title of the book that I wanted to publish for quite some time now. While I was thinking about phrasing and gathering content, somebody else beat me to it with Naming T…| Ilya's blog
Showing a setup of gRPC service which is also exposed as a REST API. It’s a setup that happens to work for us. No alternatives will be discussed in this post. This is a concise blog post. Arc…| Ilya's blog
According to DiSC, about a quarter of all people should be communicating like me. We want information, not fluff or stories. We are here to get the answer to our question: “what’s X?…| Ilya's blog