DORA stands for DevOps Research and Assesment Recently, I had the opportunity to interview for a fascinating position focused on enhancing the engineering processes within an organization. I was particularly impressed to discover that the company embraces progressive concepts like DORA (DevOps Research and Assessment). My initial encounter with DORA…

Introduction High-level definition of log types Logs in a FinTech company aim for productivity and efficiency Conclusion The financial services industry has experienced rapid growth in recent years, with a surge in the number of FinTech companies. Along with this growth comes the increasing complexity of software systems and their…

My recent introduction with a new & efficient deployment method — I was recently introduced to serverless.com, the framework that allows developing and deploying securely and efficiently serverless applications. The definition on the website describes very well the concept. Develop, deploy, troubleshoot and secure your serverless applications with radically less overhead and cost by using the Serverless Framework. The…

Referring to the infrastructure secrets, not your personal ones :) — Introduction A security incident or breach can cause major problems to a company, for example, it can result in system failures and therefore massive recovery and operational costs. …

Weigh your pros and cons when deciding! — Back in the day Software deployment is the process of remotely installing software on multiple or all the computers within a network simultaneously, from a central location. In the past, the process was very manual and a user had to isolate and locate the software package (artefact) and transfer it to the required server…

Financial Operations (FinOps) is a culture that will help you creating cost awareness in your organisation! — Introduction Companies are moving their computing capacity to the cloud in order to benefit from the fact that the systems are managed (outsourced) by a 3rd party e.g. AWS, Azure, Google cloud etc. Efficient architecture is always the focus, however, due to a rush or uninformed decisions, various companies have been…

Critical thinking software professionals should adapt like chameleons! — I am a member of the greekdigitalcommunity.com, a greek speaking digital community, where software engineering, agile and designing professionals discuss everything about their ongoing work and share their thoughts about future concerns. A member asked the following question (translated from Greek): Question Good afternoon! I have a question and I would…

This talk was delivered during the internal Reply conference, Xchange 2021. In this article, we are going to start with some theoretical concepts and then, in another article, we will explain in a more practical way by showing the results of our demo during the conference. In the previous article…

This talk was delivered as part of the internal Reply conference, Xchange 2021. In this article (1/2) we are going to start with some theoretical concepts and then, in another article, we will explain in a more practical way by showing the results of our demo during the conference. We…