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)
Bug Report Template
A structured bug report template to help teams reproduce, triage, and resolve defects faster with clear reproduction steps and expected...
Database Migration Runbook Template
A database migration runbook template for executing schema changes safely with rollback procedures, verification steps, and communication...
Third-Party Dependency Audit Template
A template for auditing third-party dependencies: license compliance, security vulnerabilities, maintenance health, and supply chain risk.
Disaster Recovery Plan Template
A disaster recovery plan template for documenting RTO/RPO targets, failover procedures, and recovery runbooks that minimize downtime during...
Environment Setup Guide Template
A template for documenting how to set up local development, staging, and production environments consistently and reproducibly.
Feature Request Template
A structured capability request template to help teams evaluate, prioritize, and implement new capabilities with clear user value and...
Penetration Test Template
A penetration test report template for documenting findings, risk ratings, reproduction steps, and remediation guidance for security...
Post-Deployment Verification Checklist Template
A checklist template for verifying deployments: health checks, smoke tests, metric validation, and rollback readiness before declaring...
Release Notes Template
A release notes template that communicates changes clearly to users, operators, and stakeholders with categories, upgrade instructions, and...
Service Level Objective (SLO) Document Template
An SLO document template that defines reliability targets, error budgets, and escalation policies for services and platforms.
User Story and Acceptance Criteria Template
A user story template that connects user needs to implementation with clear acceptance criteria, definition of done, and INVEST principles.
Domain-Driven Design (DDD) — A Practical Guide
Learn DDD fundamentals: bounded contexts, entities, value objects, aggregates, and how to model complex business domains in code.
Event-Driven Architecture — Queues, Topics, and Streams
A practical guide to event-driven architecture: events vs commands, message brokers, patterns like CQRS and Saga, and when to choose async...
Microservices Architecture — When to Use and When Not To
A practical guide to microservices: benefits, trade-offs, common patterns, and when to choose them over monoliths. Covers decomposition...
Monolith to Microservices — Migration Strategies
A practical guide to decomposing monoliths: strangler fig, branch by abstraction, and incremental extraction patterns that reduce risk and...
System Design Interview Guide: Key Concepts
A practical guide to system design interviews: scalability, databases, caching, load balancing, microservices, and how to structure your...
CAP Theorem and Database Trade-offs
A practical guide to the CAP theorem: consistency, availability, and partition tolerance. Learn how to choose the right trade-offs for your...
Database Sharding and Partitioning Strategies
A practical guide to horizontal partitioning (sharding), vertical partitioning, and range vs hash strategies. Scale databases without...
NoSQL Database Selection — MongoDB, DynamoDB, Cassandra
A practical guide to choosing the right NoSQL database. Compare document, key-value, wide-column, and graph stores with selection criteria...
SQL Performance Tuning — Indexes, Queries, and Explain Plans
A practical guide to optimizing SQL queries: indexing strategies, query rewriting, EXPLAIN plan analysis, and common anti-patterns to avoid.
Clean Code Principles: Writing Maintainable Software
A practical guide to clean code: meaningful names, short functions, DRY, SOLID foundations, and habits that make codebases easier to read...
What Works in Code Review — For Authors and Reviewers
A practical guide to useful code reviews: how to write reviewable code, give constructive feedback, and keep reviews fast and focused.
SOLID Principles Explained with Examples
Learn the five SOLID principles with practical code examples: Single Responsibility, Open/Closed, Liskov Substitution, Interface...
Blue-Green and Canary Deployments
A practical guide to deployment strategies: blue-green, canary, rolling, and feature flags. Minimize risk and rollback time when releasing...