E-voting [presentation]
Last week I gave a talk on the OpenFest conference about (remote) e-voting (or internet voting/i-voting). The talk was not in English, but here are my translated slides: I’ve addressedContinue reading
Setting Up CloudFront With S3
Yesterday I decided to setup CloudFront for Computoser. I store all the generated tracks in AWS S3, and every time a track is played or downloaded, I was making aContinue reading
In Defence of Monoliths
The first Microservices talk I attended was a year and a half ago. My first reaction was “why is that something new?”. Then I realized it is already getting overhyped,Continue reading
Retryable operations
In every project that I’ve worked on, there’s always a need of a certain piece of functionality: retrying an operation. Normally it’s about calls over the network that can failContinue reading
Why All The Fear of Electronic Voting?
Due to an upcoming referendum in Bulgaria about whether we want “remote electronic voting”, I, as a technical person, and at the same time, as government adviser, argue a lotContinue reading
Common Sense Driven Development [talk]
A few months ago I spoke on a conference (jPrime) about common sense driven development (and what it isn’t). Here’s the video: And here are the slides: As you’ll see,Continue reading
“Forget me” and Tests
Your users have profiles on your web application. And normally you should give them a way to delete their profiles (at least that’s what the European Court has decided). ThatContinue reading
The “Software Engineer” Mindset
What is a software engineer? And what is a senior software engineer? Many companies define a “senior software engineer” as a person who has spent more then 6 years asContinue reading
Comments on The Twelve-Factor App
The Twelve-Factor App is a recent methodology (and/or a manifesto) for writing web applications that hopefully is getting quite popular. Although I don’t agree 100% with the recommendations, I ‘llContinue reading
A Software Engineer As a High-Level Government Adviser
Two months ago I took the job of adviser to the cabinet of the deputy prime minister of my country (the Republic of Bulgaria, an EU member). And I’d likeContinue reading