Security. Arguably one of the most important components of your application, especially if you have to deal with private information and want to restrict access to only authorised parties. It's wise to start planning for this ahead of time, to make sure you have a plan when you
When you go into an interview you will be asked a lot of questions. I’ve interviewed at least a couple dozen people and I’d say about 85% of the time when the developer, somewhere towards the end of the interview, is asked “And do you perhaps have any
When thinking about becoming a better software engineer, most of us think about learning new languages, using new technologies, reading books about software architecture, participating in tech conferences etc. We rarely stop to think about the non-technical aspects that drive motivation, engagement and performance. But having good technical skills is
In our journey to successfully design and build both internally and externally consumed APIs for many clients over the years, we have learned a lot of valuable lessons. We would like to share the five biggest learnings for you to benefit from - without having to find out the hard
GPT4All is a tool that allows you to run your own local #ai powered chatbot. No Internet required and no Big Tech watching you. Among other things, you can choose which (pre-trained) models you want to use. It is also possible to add your own local documents so you can
Warp.dev is a modern terminal application build in Rust, it is fast and easy to work with. If you are still using a more traditional terminal application like iterm, then definitely give warp a try. For some reason I always find myself struggling navigating text in a terminal using
At one of my previous assignments there was a lot of focus on how to make and keep a developer happy. As this is a topic that I am quite passionate about, I would like to share some thoughts I have about it. The "developer experience" can be
The Cloud. Soon after the launches of Amazons Web Services, Google Cloud and Azure shortly after the start of the 21st century, ‘the cloud’ became the go-to buzzword to drive traffic to your tech blog. And hopefully that still works. However, the cloud has long passed that status, and by
Two years in the making, we finally got a chance to execute our plan: go on a Coderetreat together with the entire team. The idea was simple: find a nice place to stay for a couple of days and work on some tech while also allowing some time to just
Most, if not all, engineers at Sourcelabs have been working on systems that have been designed from ground up with a Microservices architecture in mind or monolithic systems that have been decomposed into several smaller (micro)services. One of the most interesting parts of Microservices is dealing with communication between
Introduction GraphQL is one of the technologies that we like very much at SourceLabs, we even offer GraphQL trainings with Kotlin/Java. Federated GraphQL was a topic that we wanted to explore for a long time and finally for our March meetup, we got to do just that. Very concise
Yes, you've read that right! This time our meetup was about not writing code. As software developers we tend to solve most problems that we have with code, but sometimes it's also possible to solve problems without doing so. That's why we decided to