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)
Multi-Tenancy Architecture
Design multi-tenant applications with shared or isolated databases, tenant-aware routing, and data...
Retry with Exponential Backoff
Implement resilient retry strategies with exponential backoff, jitter, and circuit breaker...
Service Discovery
Implement service discovery with health checks, DNS-based resolution, and service registries for...
Workflow Engines
Orchestrate complex business processes with workflow engines, state machines, and long-running task...
Database Replication
Set up and manage database replication for high availability, read scaling, and disaster recovery...
Database Schema Evolution
Evolve database schemas safely with backward-compatible changes, versioned migrations, and online...
Blue-Green Deployment Recipe
Deploy with zero downtime using blue-green environments, instant traffic switching, and automated...
Chaos Engineering
Build resilient systems by intentionally injecting failures and observing how your distributed...
CI/CD Pipeline Setup
Set up automated CI/CD pipelines for testing, building, and deploying applications with GitHub...
Immutable Infrastructure
Build immutable infrastructure with versioned machine images and containers to eliminate...
Server-Side Rendering
Improve performance and SEO with server-side rendering using Next.js, Nuxt, Astro, and other...
WebSockets for Real-Time Communication
Build bidirectional real-time communication with WebSockets, handling connection management,...
Cloud Cost Optimization Recipe
Reduce cloud infrastructure costs with right-sizing, reserved instances, spot instances, and...
Dead Letter Queues
Handle failed messages gracefully with dead letter queues, retry policies, and poison pill...
Event-Driven Microservices
Design event-driven microservices with message brokers, event sourcing, CQRS, and eventual...
Distributed Tracing
Trace requests across distributed microservices with OpenTelemetry, Jaeger, and Zipkin for latency...
Log Aggregation
Centralize logs from distributed services with ELK, Fluentd, and Loki for search, alerting, and...
Metrics Collection
Collect, aggregate, and expose application and infrastructure metrics with Prometheus, StatsD, and...
Real User Monitoring
Monitor actual user experiences with Core Web Vitals, session replay, and performance analytics to...
Structured Logging
Implement structured logging with JSON output, correlation IDs, and log aggregation for production...
Container Security Scanning
Scan container images for vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and secrets with Trivy, Clair, and...
Data Privacy and GDPR Compliance
Implement data privacy controls, consent management, data anonymization, and GDPR-compliant data...
HMAC Request Signing
Secure API requests with HMAC-SHA256 signatures to ensure integrity and authenticity.
Password Hashing in Production
Securely hash and verify passwords using bcrypt, scrypt, and Argon2 with what works.