I was a lucky auditor of Twitter Spaces discussion yesterday, brilliantly hosted by @TheTechRally and @genericmikechen. My attention was caught by a few questions. …

John Ousterhout’s A Philosophy Of Software Design is one of my favourite books. Very short, well-articulated and pragmatic, Ousterhout manages to explain the rationale behind many practices we usually learn with experience, yet are often not able to articulate clearly. I’ll write a new, complete, review of the book one…

Software engineers, testers or product managers use mental models to reason about the systems they work with. These different roles use architecture diagrams to build their own mental models. People will make assumptions based on their understanding. …

✨ The promise A couple of months ago, I came across Akita Software, a startup that automatically watches API traffic in order to generate API OpenAPI definitions and to detect breaking changes. As an architect at Ubisoft, I work building our internal platform-as-a-service, a job that involves building and integrating lots of internal…

A few things can change your life. A few decades ago, audio playback improved from mono to stereo. TV added some color on top of the black and white images. And your code got ligature fonts. …

I decided a few weeks ago to give the AWS certifications a try, after years of hands-on experience. And what I learned in the process makes me wish many more engineers start thinking of doing it too. I thought certifications were a goal — and they might be — but…

NGINX is awesome… but I found its documentation on rate limiting to be somewhat… limited. So I’ve written this guide to rate-liming and traffic shaping with NGINX. We’re going to: describe the NGINX directives explain NGINX’s accept/reject logic help you visualize how a real burst of traffic is processed using…