Nowadays, there is no doubt that 'Infrastructure as real code' is a way of cloud resources provisioning. CDK is an incredible way of doing this in the AWS ecosystem. This article will talk about the situation when the CloudFormation template is in place and you want to make a new…

The idea of this blog post came to me when I have realized that there are no good materials on an end-to-end example of deploying a Spring container with the Secrets by using modern infrastructure as a code solution. Here is the GitHub repository to follow along with the article…

I started my cloud journey from Heroku. It was a great experience because I was fascinated by the idea of making it so easy to deploy your code to the cloud. After some time spent in Java and on-premise servers, I went directly to AWS. It was started as a…

Java is one of the most popular programming languages for server-side application development in the world. It is used to power international corporations in financial, healthcare, governmental, and other sectors. However, since the creation of this language, many things have changed. …

Note from 2020. This blogpost was written two years ago. I decided to publish it anyway. Now it looks like a retro movie already but it gives the idea and outcomes of our solution during Junction 2018. Have a nice reading! Can you imagine a weekend full of ideating, coding…

Software engineering is a lifestyle. It is not just a 9–5 job. There are several ways on how to learn new technologies and gain skills. First, one can learn new stuff at the current working project. However, business requirements are often subject to reality and state-of-the-art technologies can't be implemented. …

Cloud computing sounds cool and exciting for most software developers. There are dozens of services which give you the ability to control some server in the cloud or even no-server at all but I will speak about it later. I was lucky to have a special program at work for…

I live and work in Finland which recently became one of the happiest countries in the world. It is an amazing place to be. Social care, cashless operations, convenient public transportation, and kind, supportive people around, which is a very important factor in common living. The majority of people speaking…

By random chance, I have ended up living in Finland, which is a great place to live in. Nowadays software development is on the rise in this country. There are many job openings that require software skills and English as the main used language. If your job is related to…