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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)

intermediate

Optimize Queries with Database Indexing

How to create, analyze, and maintain indexes to speed up database queries and avoid common indexing mistakes.

intermediate

Optimize Slow Database Queries

How to identify, analyze, and fix slow SQL queries using EXPLAIN, query refactoring, and database-specific optimization techniques.

intermediate

Web Performance Optimization

Improve Core Web Vitals, reduce bundle sizes, and optimize frontend performance with lazy loading, code splitting, and modern build tools.

advanced

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...

intermediate

Build Serverless Functions

Create and deploy serverless functions with AWS Lambda, Google Cloud Functions, and Azure Functions for event-driven, pay-per-use compute.

intermediate

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...

beginner

Generate Test Data

How to generate realistic, deterministic test data with Faker, factory-boy, and type-aware generators for reliable test suites in Python,...

advanced

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.

intermediate

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...

intermediate

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...

intermediate

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...

intermediate

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...

intermediate

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.

beginner

Measure Test Coverage

How to measure, report, and enforce code coverage with branch and condition coverage using pytest-cov, nyc, and JaCoCo for meaningful...

beginner

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...

intermediate

Async Generator Pattern

Stream data lazily with async generators. Yield values one at a time as they become available, enabling memory-efficient processing of...

intermediate

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...

advanced

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,...

intermediate

Message Deduplication Pattern

Prevent duplicate processing by tracking message IDs with idempotency keys. Consumers check a store before processing to skip messages...

intermediate

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...

intermediate

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...

beginner

Static Content Hosting Pattern

Deploy static files to a dedicated content delivery network or object storage to offload origin servers, reduce latency, and improve...

advanced

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.

advanced

Parallel DataFrame Operations with Dask

How to use Dask for parallel DataFrame operations on datasets larger than memory, covering lazy evaluation, partitions, custom...