To microservice or not to microservice? — In the last few years we were bombed by a mantra: using microservices, the monolith is the evil. Since then, those who are maintaining an old codebase, or are implementing a simple MVC website, have to fight with the sense of inadequacy for not following the microservice pattern. Did you…

Learn why DevOps is not enough — Sorry for writing this clickbait title. I hate to use these tricks, but I needed to get your attention. In the IT trend, DevOps is the buzz word, nowadays. It happened some years ago with front end, when SPA (Single Page Application) became rampant. I think it is usual in…

How to add modernity to a pillar of the development process — Undoubtedly, Bash is the most common scripting language used in UNIX systems and is nowadays widely used on Windows too since we have WSL distro shipped with the OS. Despite it being one of the most important pillars of software automation, the scripting experience is very poor. In fact, it…

Host, preview, and ship multitenant SaaS applications fast — Modern technologies empower our everyday coding experience. A few years ago we needed a lot of competencies for implementing a simple website and hosting it. Still today, a lot of people are convinced that for building and delivering an application we need a multidisciplinary team. It is true in many…

The story behind Bashy the script manager for Bash scripts — In this article, I will introduce the Opensource project Bashy, a tool that enhances the scripting experience by facilitating argument parsing and making it possible to share scripts as every package manager does. In another word, I made work Bash as any modern scripting framework should. …

Fast, affordable, and simple — In the last years, we moved from professionals that were skilled in many competencies (full-stack) to focused developers. The limitation of the scope leads to more and more efficient people. Anyway, while in the past a full-stack was able to build a full project, nowadays a frontend or backend developer…

Meet Bashy — my open-source tool for packaging Bash scripts — Every project starts from a need or an idea. In my case, I was moved by the complexity of parsing arguments in bash scripts and sharing the scripts themself. Most developers that write bash scripts keep them in their local PC and, when needed, copy/paste the file and change the…

Learn how to use the Bashy library for a better input parsing and script management — Nowadays, most of the tools and scripting engines have some very important features that save us tons of hours. In my daily work, I appreciate these scripts the most: argument parsing and help support: the ability to self-document the command you are launching, enumerating all the parameters script share: the…

From social networks to content networks — In the last days, the announcement of Mark Zuckerberg of changing the name of Facebook went around. This news caused a stir and was something that most of us cannot expect. …