Month: July 2023

Running tests is the necessary evil. I have never heard two or more engineers at the water cooler talking about the joys of test execution. Don't get me wrong, tests are great; you should definitely have plenty of them in your project. It is just not a pleasant experience to wait for their execution. If they start to fail, that is even worse. Most probably, someone could become very popular if they could reliably tell which tests will fail before executing them. As for the rest of us, I think we should keep running our tests.

Can We Somehow Reduce the Execution Time at Least?

We can at least try! We could start by understanding the problem more and looking at solutions later.

With the COVID-19 outbreak, the e-commerce industry experienced significant growth, as the demand for online sales increased exponentially. With the decrease in live sales, multiple organizations, which ignored the online world or just hadn’t prioritized this marketing and sales channel before, understood the importance of e-commerce.

Nevertheless, organizations became vulnerable right after applying e-commerce tools and practices. E-commerce is, in many ways, about operating sensitive data including personal details and financial information. This fact poses specific and strict demands to cybersecurity in e-commerce — whenever a site falls victim to a global incident or clients just have the reason to doubt the protection of their data, you lose reputation and profits.

Inventory management is an essential component of any business that sells physical products. It involves keeping track of stock levels, forecasting future needs, and ensuring that there's always enough product to meet customer demand, but not so much that money is wasted on overstocking. Effective inventory management can significantly reduce costs and improve customer satisfaction, making it a key driver of business success.

However, traditional inventory management methods, which often rely heavily on manual processes and guesswork, can fall short in today's rapidly changing and increasingly complex business environment. Human error, unpredictable changes in demand, and a lack of real-time visibility into stock levels are just a few of the challenges that businesses can encounter when managing their inventory.

In today’s text, I want to take a closer look at gRPC and REST, probably two of the most commonly used approaches for creating API nowadays.

I will start with a short characteristic of both tools — what they are and what they can offer. Then I will compare them according to seven categories, in my opinion, most crucial for modern-day systems.

The 2023 Stack Overflow survey shows that Postgres has taken over the first place spot from MySQL and become the most admired, desired database.

As Postgres gains more momentum, it becomes harder to pick between Postgres and MySQL. MySQL is probably still the world's most popular open-source database by install base.