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Mathias Paulenko

Software Engineer & Founder of StackPractices

Mathias Paulenko

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)

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Complete Guide to Python Asyncio in Production

Run Python asyncio in production with confidence. Covers event loops, task management, debugging, cancellation, timeouts, backpressure, and...

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Complete Guide to Database Sharding

Master database sharding. Covers range-based, hash-based, and directory-based partitioning strategies, consistent hashing, shard key...

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Complete Guide to MongoDB Indexing

Master MongoDB indexing. Covers single field, compound, text, geospatial, TTL, wildcard, hashed indexes, ESR rule, covered queries, explain...

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Complete Guide to PostgreSQL Replication

Master PostgreSQL replication. Covers streaming replication, logical replication, cascading replicas, synchronous commit, failover with...

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Complete Guide to Redis in Production

Run Redis in production. Covers persistence (RDB, AOF), clustering, sentinel for HA, failover handling, memory management, eviction...

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Complete Guide to SQL Query Optimization

Optimize SQL queries. Covers EXPLAIN plan analysis, index strategies, join optimization, N+1 query detection, query rewriting, materialized...

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Complete Guide to Docker in Production

Run Docker containers in production with confidence. Covers multi-stage builds, distroless images, health checks, image scanning, resource...

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Complete Guide to GitOps in Production

Implement GitOps with ArgoCD and Flux. Covers declarative infrastructure, drift reconciliation, automated rollbacks, progressive delivery,...

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Complete Guide to Kubernetes Networking

Master Kubernetes networking. Covers Services, Ingress, NetworkPolicies, CNI plugins, DNS, service mesh, load balancing, external traffic,...

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Complete Guide to Monitoring and Alerting

Build a production monitoring stack. Covers Prometheus, Grafana, AlertManager, metrics instrumentation, alert rules, runbooks, SLI/SLO/SLA,...

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Complete Guide to Terraform in Production

Manage infrastructure as code with Terraform in production. Covers modules, state management, workspaces, drift detection, remote backends,...

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Complete Guide to Bundle Size Optimization

Reduce JavaScript bundle size. Covers tree shaking, code splitting, dynamic imports, dependency analysis, module federation, lazy loading,...

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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,...

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Complete Guide to React 19 Features

Master React 19 features. Covers server components, use() hook, actions, form actions, useActionState, useOptimistic, useFormStatus, ref as...

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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,...

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Complete Guide to Event-Driven Systems

Design and operate event-driven backends. Covers event sourcing, CQRS, sagas, outbox pattern, idempotency, eventual consistency, and...

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Complete Guide to Apache Kafka in Production

Run Apache Kafka in production with confidence. Covers partitions, replication, consumer groups, monitoring, performance tuning, and...

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Complete Guide to RabbitMQ Architecture

Design and operate RabbitMQ for reliable messaging. Covers exchanges, queues, bindings, routing patterns, dead letter queues, clustering,...

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Complete Guide to API Security

Secure your APIs end-to-end. Covers rate limiting, authentication, input validation, CORS, SQL injection prevention, API gateway patterns,...

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Complete Guide to Authentication Patterns

Implement authentication in production. Covers JWT, OAuth2, session-based auth, passkeys, MFA, refresh tokens, token rotation, RBAC, ABAC,...

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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,...

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Complete Guide to Secrets Management

Manage application secrets securely in production. Covers HashiCorp Vault, AWS Secrets Manager, Azure Key Vault, GCP Secret Manager,...

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Complete Guide to Supply Chain Security

Secure your software supply chain end-to-end. Covers SBOM generation, dependency scanning, Sigstore, SLSA framework, provenance...

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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,...