Tips to build a cooperative team — Building a balanced team A good DevOps team consists of a strong commander, a wizard, a couple of builders, and a lineup of warriors. Why even bother with a metaphor like this — it seems silly, right? I believe that the strongest teams (both in role-playing games and in real-life) are made up of…

Build micro-frontend architectures with ease — Module Federation is a great tool for constructing a micro-frontend architecture in React applications. I will show you how to use it in a step-by-step guide to build a Host-Remote pattern micro-frontend in React. Why a Micro Frontend? Micro-frontends help us break large frontend applications into smaller independent…

Meet KSQL — A library I wrote to address the problems of Golang and SQL — In my years working with Golang, I came to the conclusion that working with SQL is not a well-solved problem yet. The libraries that we have available are just not easy to use and there are too many ways of shooting your own foot. To illustrate that I will try…

In a past post of this series, we showed how easy it was to generate documentation for our frameworks and libraries using DocC and the benefits of doing it. We also saw the different content we can add, like articles, how-tos, and references for our functions, classes, and structs. But…

Investing in good navigation framework from start will help you save tons of migration work afterwards — It’s been about a year since Google announced Jetpack Compose’s 1.0 stable release, meaning developers can now create production-ready apps using its UI toolkit but, should you? Keep in mind that whatever I’ve said in this article is purely my opinion, so if there is anything you don’t agree then…

Boost speed from the beginning — What’s Composition? Composition is a common development pattern between UI frameworks like React, Angular, and now Flutter. There are many reasons this pattern was popular for a long time among UI developers. Let’s take a brief look at the advantages of this pattern: Reuseable Component/Widgets: This may be the main goal of…

High throughput data ingestion system — This article is all about working with Kafka and Rust. As an idea, I'm trying to build a data ingestion service that accepts Semi Structured Json Payloads and publishes them to Kafka. …

Know how the top DeFi protocol works under the hood — Welcome to the in-depth DeFi series! This series will be composed of several posts; each one will consist of an explanation of an individual protocol. The main purpose of this series is to understand from a first-principles approach how the top DeFi protocols work under the hood. We will review…

Tight coupling in code is something that builds up with time because we treat different parts as one big whole. We should avoid doing that. — It’s been a rough couple of months. A lot of work had to be done and in the end I just needed a break. Reading relaxes me so I picked up The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin. I did not know anything about the book or the problem before I…

Get started with cybersecurity and encryption through code — What is PGP Pretty Good Privacy, more commonly known as PGP, is a widely used encryption program. PGP is used to create digital signatures, encrypt and decrypt large volumes of data, and to increase the security of email communications. PGP encryption uses a serial combination of hashing, data compression, symmetric-key cryptography, and finally…

Know how token gating works — The concept of token gating is used to restrict access and provide exclusive content, right or membership to holders of a specific token or set of tokens. The smart contract In this scenario, we will be writing a simple smart contract that implements the same concept in providing membership access to an NFT…

Leverage gradients and circles — An UIActivityIndicatorView is a view that shows that a task is in progress. Today we will break down the default iOS activity indicator in SwiftUI using gradients and circles. Note: I’m not sure the default iOS activity indicator is built the same way.

A playful methodology for solid results — Summary This is a short post about principles I apply to everything I build — whether it is a class interface, web API, Infrastructure as Code (IaC) template, or architectural design. I didn’t plan for this; I was thinking about principles for building good IaC templates, but I quickly realized that…

Web scraping in SwiftUI made easy — We’re living in a century in which using API’s common. We, as mobile developers, are used to encoding and decoding JSON data to run our app with the server. Sadly, not all websites/services provide API. Sometimes, you need to read the website to get what you want. We call this…