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)
Optimize Queries with Database Indexing
How to create, analyze, and maintain indexes to speed up database queries and avoid common indexing mistakes.
Optimize Slow Database Queries
How to identify, analyze, and fix slow SQL queries using EXPLAIN, query refactoring, and database-specific optimization techniques.
Web Performance Optimization
Improve Core Web Vitals, reduce bundle sizes, and optimize frontend performance with lazy loading, code splitting, and modern build tools.
Implement Event Sourcing in Serverless Architectures
How to capture all changes as immutable events using event sourcing with AWS Lambda, DynamoDB streams, and event stores for audit trails...
Build Serverless Functions
Create and deploy serverless functions with AWS Lambda, Google Cloud Functions, and Azure Functions for event-driven, pay-per-use compute.
Orchestrate Serverless Workflows with Step Functions and
How to coordinate complex serverless processes using AWS Step Functions, Temporal, and Durable Functions to manage state, retries, and...
Generate Test Data
How to generate realistic, deterministic test data with Faker, factory-boy, and type-aware generators for reliable test suites in Python,...
Implement Mutation Testing
How to use mutation testing with MutPy, Stryker, and PIT to evaluate whether your tests actually assert behavior or merely execute code.
Implement Property-Based Testing
How to write property-based tests with Hypothesis, fast-check, and jqwik that generate thousands of inputs to find edge cases traditional...
JUnit5 Soft Assertions with AssertJ
How to use AssertJ soft assertions in JUnit5 to collect multiple assertion failures in a single test instead of stopping at the first...
Stub External HTTP Services with WireMock
How to use WireMock in Java tests to stub external HTTP services, including response templating, delay simulation, and stateful mock...
Vitest Snapshot Testing for React
How to use Vitest snapshot testing to catch unintended UI changes in React components, including inline snapshots and snapshot updating...
Perform Load Testing on APIs
How to simulate realistic traffic, measure response times, and identify bottlenecks using k6 and JMeter for APIs and web services.
Measure Test Coverage
How to measure, report, and enforce code coverage with branch and condition coverage using pytest-cov, nyc, and JaCoCo for meaningful...
Measure Test Coverage with pytest-cov
How to measure and enforce Python test coverage thresholds with pytest-cov, including branch coverage, HTML reports, exclusions, and CI...
Async Generator Pattern
Stream data lazily with async generators. Yield values one at a time as they become available, enabling memory-efficient processing of...
Decorator Pattern for HTTP Request Pipelines
Use the Decorator pattern to compose cross-cutting concerns like logging, metrics, and retries into HTTP request pipelines without...
Interpreter Pattern for Domain-Specific Expression Languages
Build a language interpreter that evaluates expressions and rules by representing grammar as composable objects, useful for formulas,...
Message Deduplication Pattern
Prevent duplicate processing by tracking message IDs with idempotency keys. Consumers check a store before processing to skip messages...
Message Queue Load Leveling Pattern
Smooth traffic spikes by placing a queue between a producer and a consumer. The producer writes messages at any rate; the consumer...
Sequential Convoy Pattern
Preserve message ordering for related messages in a distributed system by grouping them into ordered sequences and processing them one at a...
Static Content Hosting Pattern
Deploy static files to a dedicated content delivery network or object storage to offload origin servers, reduce latency, and improve...
Schedule and Monitor DAGs with Apache Airflow
How to define, schedule, and monitor Directed Acyclic Graphs in Apache Airflow with operators, sensors, XCom, and task dependencies.
Parallel DataFrame Operations with Dask
How to use Dask for parallel DataFrame operations on datasets larger than memory, covering lazy evaluation, partitions, custom...