Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) is a scalable and fully managed message queuing service that allows users to transmit any amount of data through the web without administrative responsibility. Recently, I tried to evaluate whenever the SQS service will […]
In the previous blog post, I’ve described how to build a simple SMS notification system using DynamoDB, SNS and AWS Lambda. In this post, I’ll show how to change it in order to allow each user to choose whenever he […]
As many engineers in the industry, we have on-call duty. The on-call duty is defined at the beginning of each month and the list of the on-call engineers for each date can be found in an excel sheet. Well, this […]
Recently I found a funny bug in our code and I wanted to share some insights on it so you won’t do the same mistakes. Let’s assume we have a function that produces a lot of output and it can […]
As part of my day job, I write and compile a lot of code. My laptop is not that strong and I find myself wasting a lot of time on compilation. Then I asked myself, why shouldn’t I use the […]
There are many technologies that can be used for building back-ends for web-sites, web-services and etc. In this post, I want to show how easily web-services can be created using Python and Flask. I don’t really like writing UI (or […]
Every good product need to have a good testing coverage in order to insure that it works both in “happy scenarios” and in “bad scenarios” – inc. disruptions, limits and etc. Beside unit tests, every module should be tested “end-to-end” […]
Recently, I was participating in an online challenge that included “hacking” to a website that was especially created for the challenge. After figuring out what to do at the beginning, I came to the conclusion that I need to send […]