Mathias Paulenko
Software Engineer & Founder of StackPractices
Mathias Paulenko
Software Engineer
Software engineer with 12+ years of experience building production systems across Python, JavaScript, React, and DevOps. I have contributed to enterprise projects spanning CI/CD pipelines, API design, cloud infrastructure, and full-stack development.
StackPractices is my personal project, born from a simple belief: great documentation should be copy-paste ready. Every recipe, pattern, and guide on this site is designed to save you time and help you ship faster.
Published Works (1032)
Complete Guide to Python Asyncio in Production
Run Python asyncio in production with confidence. Covers event loops, task management, debugging, cancellation, timeouts, backpressure, and...
Complete Guide to Database Sharding
Master database sharding. Covers range-based, hash-based, and directory-based partitioning strategies, consistent hashing, shard key...
Complete Guide to MongoDB Indexing
Master MongoDB indexing. Covers single field, compound, text, geospatial, TTL, wildcard, hashed indexes, ESR rule, covered queries, explain...
Complete Guide to PostgreSQL Replication
Master PostgreSQL replication. Covers streaming replication, logical replication, cascading replicas, synchronous commit, failover with...
Complete Guide to Redis in Production
Run Redis in production. Covers persistence (RDB, AOF), clustering, sentinel for HA, failover handling, memory management, eviction...
Complete Guide to SQL Query Optimization
Optimize SQL queries. Covers EXPLAIN plan analysis, index strategies, join optimization, N+1 query detection, query rewriting, materialized...
Complete Guide to Docker in Production
Run Docker containers in production with confidence. Covers multi-stage builds, distroless images, health checks, image scanning, resource...
Complete Guide to GitOps in Production
Implement GitOps with ArgoCD and Flux. Covers declarative infrastructure, drift reconciliation, automated rollbacks, progressive delivery,...
Complete Guide to Kubernetes Networking
Master Kubernetes networking. Covers Services, Ingress, NetworkPolicies, CNI plugins, DNS, service mesh, load balancing, external traffic,...
Complete Guide to Monitoring and Alerting
Build a production monitoring stack. Covers Prometheus, Grafana, AlertManager, metrics instrumentation, alert rules, runbooks, SLI/SLO/SLA,...
Complete Guide to Terraform in Production
Manage infrastructure as code with Terraform in production. Covers modules, state management, workspaces, drift detection, remote backends,...
Complete Guide to Bundle Size Optimization
Reduce JavaScript bundle size. Covers tree shaking, code splitting, dynamic imports, dependency analysis, module federation, lazy loading,...
Complete Guide to CSS Grid and Flexbox
Master modern CSS layout with Grid and Flexbox. Covers grid templates, areas, subgrid, responsive layouts, flexbox alignment, wrapping,...
Complete Guide to React 19 Features
Master React 19 features. Covers server components, use() hook, actions, form actions, useActionState, useOptimistic, useFormStatus, ref as...
Complete Guide to Web Performance and Core Web Vitals
Optimize Core Web Vitals. Covers LCP, INP, CLS measurement and improvement, image optimization, font loading, render-blocking resources,...
Complete Guide to Event-Driven Systems
Design and operate event-driven backends. Covers event sourcing, CQRS, sagas, outbox pattern, idempotency, eventual consistency, and...
Complete Guide to Apache Kafka in Production
Run Apache Kafka in production with confidence. Covers partitions, replication, consumer groups, monitoring, performance tuning, and...
Complete Guide to RabbitMQ Architecture
Design and operate RabbitMQ for reliable messaging. Covers exchanges, queues, bindings, routing patterns, dead letter queues, clustering,...
Complete Guide to API Security
Secure your APIs end-to-end. Covers rate limiting, authentication, input validation, CORS, SQL injection prevention, API gateway patterns,...
Complete Guide to Authentication Patterns
Implement authentication in production. Covers JWT, OAuth2, session-based auth, passkeys, MFA, refresh tokens, token rotation, RBAC, ABAC,...
Complete Guide to OWASP Top 10 2025
Mitigate each OWASP Top 10 2025 risk with practical code examples. Covers broken access control, cryptographic failures, injection,...
Complete Guide to Secrets Management
Manage application secrets securely in production. Covers HashiCorp Vault, AWS Secrets Manager, Azure Key Vault, GCP Secret Manager,...
Complete Guide to Supply Chain Security
Secure your software supply chain end-to-end. Covers SBOM generation, dependency scanning, Sigstore, SLSA framework, provenance...
Complete Guide to AWS Lambda in Production
Run AWS Lambda in production with confidence. Covers cold start optimization, layers, deployment patterns, observability with X-Ray,...