Hello there, hope you’re doing good. Usually, I write technical content related to software engineering, programming and best practices. But this time I would like to share my personal experience with something different, something that everyone deals with every day, Money and Investments 💰. This is not the money lesson…

Within the software systems, most often than not we wanted to spin up some temporary services or jobs that can be terminated as soon as it performed a specific task. For example, if we want to send out user notifications everyday morning, then we don't want that service to be…

At the beginning of last year, I wrote an article titled How to secure and manage secrets using Google Cloud KMS, explaining how we can use Google Cloud KMS (Key Management System) to encrypt secrets and securely use it in our applications. I mentioned it is a decent approach because…

Welcome to another article on Google Cloud Platform. If you are building services using GCP then you might already know the several limitations that come with it. One of them being a lack of support for gRPC in their easy to use solutions such as Google AppEngine (Standard and Flexible)…

“Password” this crazy piece of string worth a lot, get a lot of attention but yet very hard to process & hide. Even with the multi-factor approach, it is crucial to design the first step right (which is what the user knows). It becomes increasingly harder for the software systems…

For a successful business, it is important to know who your customers are. Knowing your customers helps to understand your business better, build better versions of your ideas, and can make effective decisions for the successful long run. Everyone knows it right! When it comes to software infrastructure, it remains…

With the increasing number of adoption towards service-oriented architecture and for better integrations with external systems, it became a necessity to write Restful APIs for our services. While building so we might often find several challenges such as, Standard & Consistent API design Better documentation Client Libraries Playground (better developer…

Let’s jump right in. We all know it’s a bad idea to store application secrets within our code. So why we are storing there it still? Let’s take an example. We could store those secrets in a file and add it to the gitignore so it’s not added to version…