StackPractices

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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Multi-Tenancy Architecture

Design multi-tenant applications with shared or isolated databases, tenant-aware routing, and data...

intermediate

Retry with Exponential Backoff

Implement resilient retry strategies with exponential backoff, jitter, and circuit breaker...

intermediate

Service Discovery

Implement service discovery with health checks, DNS-based resolution, and service registries for...

advanced

Workflow Engines

Orchestrate complex business processes with workflow engines, state machines, and long-running task...

intermediate

Database Replication

Set up and manage database replication for high availability, read scaling, and disaster recovery...

database-replication database performance sql
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Database Schema Evolution

Evolve database schemas safely with backward-compatible changes, versioned migrations, and online...

intermediate

Blue-Green Deployment Recipe

Deploy with zero downtime using blue-green environments, instant traffic switching, and automated...

advanced

Chaos Engineering

Build resilient systems by intentionally injecting failures and observing how your distributed...

beginner

CI/CD Pipeline Setup

Set up automated CI/CD pipelines for testing, building, and deploying applications with GitHub...

intermediate

Immutable Infrastructure

Build immutable infrastructure with versioned machine images and containers to eliminate...

intermediate

Server-Side Rendering

Improve performance and SEO with server-side rendering using Next.js, Nuxt, Astro, and other...

intermediate

WebSockets for Real-Time Communication

Build bidirectional real-time communication with WebSockets, handling connection management,...

intermediate

Cloud Cost Optimization Recipe

Reduce cloud infrastructure costs with right-sizing, reserved instances, spot instances, and...

intermediate

Dead Letter Queues

Handle failed messages gracefully with dead letter queues, retry policies, and poison pill...

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Event-Driven Microservices

Design event-driven microservices with message brokers, event sourcing, CQRS, and eventual...

intermediate

Distributed Tracing

Trace requests across distributed microservices with OpenTelemetry, Jaeger, and Zipkin for latency...

intermediate

Log Aggregation

Centralize logs from distributed services with ELK, Fluentd, and Loki for search, alerting, and...

intermediate

Metrics Collection

Collect, aggregate, and expose application and infrastructure metrics with Prometheus, StatsD, and...

intermediate

Real User Monitoring

Monitor actual user experiences with Core Web Vitals, session replay, and performance analytics to...

intermediate

Structured Logging

Implement structured logging with JSON output, correlation IDs, and log aggregation for production...

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Container Security Scanning

Scan container images for vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and secrets with Trivy, Clair, and...

intermediate

Data Privacy and GDPR Compliance

Implement data privacy controls, consent management, data anonymization, and GDPR-compliant data...

intermediate

HMAC Request Signing

Secure API requests with HMAC-SHA256 signatures to ensure integrity and authenticity.

intermediate

Password Hashing in Production

Securely hash and verify passwords using bcrypt, scrypt, and Argon2 with what works.