Engineering Posts

TIL Terraform does not clean old providers

21 Aug 2023 - TIL, Terraform

Terraform providers can use a significant amount of space on disk over time as they are not automatically cleaned up.

One Way to Stay Up To Date with AWS Announcements

16 Sep 2020 - AWS

AWS releases dozens of updates every month. Staying up to date with the most relevant ones for yourself can be quite challenging. Here is a one of the technique I use to not miss important announcements.

Enjoy Brotli by default in GitHub-hosted Runners

2 Aug 2020 - Open Source, GitHub

In GitHub Actions, GitHub-hosted runners include the operating system’s default built-in tools among others. As part of one of my deployment workflows, I needed the brotli CLI. Unfortunately but it was not installed by default. Here is how it was added for future uses.

Avoiding Global State - Real Example with Passport.js

28 Jul 2020 - JavaScript, TypeScript, Jest

Here is a quick example about issues created by global states in software.

Overriding Singletons from TSyringe within Jest Tests

18 Jul 2020 - JavaScript, TypeScript, TSyringe, Jest

You might encounter some issues while trying to override singletons from TSyringe in Jest tests. Here is a quick post to help you to fix them.

Dependency Hell with Yarn & Jest

21 Jun 2020 - JavaScript, TypeScript, Yarn, Jest

Let’s discuss dependency hell when mocking Node module with Jest while using Yarn as the package manager.

Be sure to cache Auth0 JWK when using Rails

25 Apr 2020 - Rails, Auth0, Datadog, Optimization

As of today, when using code from Auth0 Rails QuickStart you may encounter performance issues as the JWK is fetched for every request. Let’s fix that.

Checking Generated Typings of CSS Modules

15 Apr 2020 - Open Source, TypeScript, CI

As an extensive user of the typings-for-css-modules-loader Webpack loader to generate TypeScript typings from SCSS files I often missed a way to verify them in CI pipelines.

How to Insert with Circular References & Constraints using PostgreSQL

12 Apr 2020 - PostgreSQL, SQL

Recently, while using my favorite database, I faced a SQL issue while trying to insert rows in two tables referencing each other with NOT NULL & Foreign Key constraints while using a single transaction.