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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 Serverless Architecture

Decide when to go serverless and when not to. Covers FaaS patterns, event-driven design, cold starts, cost models, vendor lock-in, and...

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Complete Guide to Serverless Databases

Choose and operate serverless databases for event-driven applications. Covers DynamoDB, Aurora Serverless, FaunaDB, and PlanetScale with...

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API Rate Limiting

Protect APIs from abuse and ensure fair resource usage with token bucket, sliding window, and leaky bucket rate limiting.

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Cache Database Query Results with Redis and Python

Cache expensive database query results in Redis with cache-aside pattern, TTL management, and invalidation on writes for Python...

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Configure Caffeine Cache in Java with Eviction Policies

Set up Caffeine cache in a Java application with size-based, time-based, and weighted eviction policies for high-performance local caching.

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Use Spring Cache Annotations with Redis Backend

Apply Spring's @Cacheable, @CachePut, and @CacheEvict annotations with a Redis cache manager for declarative caching in Java applications.

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Cache HTTP Responses with Nginx Reverse Proxy

Configure Nginx as a caching reverse proxy to cache upstream HTTP responses with TTL zones, cache keys, and conditional purging.

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Implement Redis Cache Invalidation in Node.js

Invalidate Redis cache entries in Node.js with TTL expiry, explicit deletion, pattern-based clearing, and pub/sub-based distributed...

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Cache Database Queries with Django Cache Framework

Use Django's built-in cache framework with per-view caching, template fragment caching, and low-level cache API for database query...

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Cache HTTP Responses with httpx and CacheControl in Python

Cache HTTP responses in Python using httpx with CacheControl for HTTP-compliant caching, ETag handling, and conditional requests.

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Store User Sessions in Memcached with Python

Use Memcached as a distributed session store in Python web applications with pymemcache, TTL management, and failover handling.

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Build Async Pipelines with C# async/await and Task.Run

Build async pipelines in C# using async/await, Task.Run, Task.WhenAll, Task.WhenAny, CancellationTokenSource, Channels, and...

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Concurrent Patterns with Go Goroutines and Channels

Build concurrent systems in Go using goroutines, channels, select statements, worker pools, fan-out/fan-in, pipelines, context...

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Compose Asynchronous Pipelines with Java CompletableFuture

Build non-blocking async pipelines in Java using CompletableFuture with thenCompose, thenCombine, allOf, anyOf, exception handling,...

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Scale Concurrent Applications with Java Virtual Threads

Scale Java applications with virtual threads from Project Loom. Use Thread.ofVirtual, Executors.newVirtualThreadPerTaskExecutor, structured...

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Concurrent Async Tasks with asyncio.gather and Task Groups

Execute multiple async operations concurrently in Python using asyncio.gather, asyncio.TaskGroup, error handling with return_exceptions,...

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Rate Limit Async Operations with asyncio.Semaphore

Control concurrency in async Python using asyncio.Semaphore for rate limiting API calls, database connections, and resource access with...

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Parallelize CPU and I/O Work with ThreadPoolExecutor

Use Python's ThreadPoolExecutor for parallel I/O operations, thread-safe result collection, Future callbacks, error handling, and mixing...

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Build Async Systems with Rust Tokio Runtime

Build async systems in Rust using the Tokio runtime with tasks, channels, select, synchronization primitives, graceful shutdown, and...

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Database Connection Pooling

Configure and tune database connection pools to maximize throughput while preventing connection exhaustion.

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Implement Event Sourcing with CQRS in Python

Build an event-sourced system with CQRS separation using Python, event store persistence, projection rebuilds, snapshots, and idempotent...

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Kafka Consumer Groups with Python for Scalable Streaming

Create Kafka consumer groups in Python with partition assignment, offset management, commit strategies, rebalance handling, and...

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Consume Kafka Topics with Spring Boot Stream Listeners

Build Kafka consumers in Spring Boot using @KafkaListener annotations, concurrent consumers, error handlers, DLQ patterns, and batch...

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Implement the Transactional Outbox Pattern for Reliable

Use the transactional outbox pattern to reliably publish domain events alongside database changes, with a relay processor, polling...