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The Clean Coder Golden Rules

When writing professional code, it is crucial to adhere to best practices, especially when transitioning from different programming languages or working under time constraints. This article aims to serve as a comprehensive guide to ensure that your applications are not only secure but also easily…

Throughput and IOPS: how much is enough?

Storage is often one of the least considered areas when launching an application in the cloud. When setting up an AWS EBS gp3 disk, you often use the default settings, 125MB/s, and 3,000 IOPS, right? You're in for a surprise, so keep reading. The concepts…

Refactoring a PHP app in Go: Entity and Value Object

In this blog, I have posted a series of articles on how to create an app using Clean Architecture and DDD, albeit a simplified version. Now, it's time to bring these concepts to Go. Golang is considered a "light" object-oriented language since it supports concepts…

Intercepting UDP DNS packets using NGINX and JavaScript

NGINX (pronounced "engine-x") is more than a proxy or a web server, it is a Swiss army knife. With the addition of NJS, a subset of JavaScript language to extend NGINX reach, things got even more interesting. Really interesting. I recently had to deal with…