Divided We Stand: A Golang Chef's Recipe for Database Sharding

Divided We Stand: A Golang Chef's Recipe for Database Sharding

Ah, horizontal scaling - the culinary art of database architecture! Much like slicing a giant salami into manageable pieces (but with less garlic), sharding helps us serve data faster than a New York pizza joint. Let’s put on our chef hats and cook up a resilient sharding implementation in Go! The Sharding Buffet: Choose Your Partition Flavor Before we fire up the code oven, let’s examine our main course options: Horizontal vs Vertical Sharding...

May 12, 2025 · 3 min · 546 words · Maxim Zhirnov
Why Your Code Isn't Watertight (And How to Plug the Leaks)

Why Your Code Isn't Watertight (And How to Plug the Leaks)

Picture this: You’ve built a beautiful digital ship, polished every plank of code, and set sail confidently into the internet ocean. Then plop - a single line of unescaped input sinks your entire creation. Welcome to modern software security, where we’re all just one sudo rm -rf / away from becoming a cautionary tweet. The Hole in Your Digital Bucket Let’s start with a universal truth - every developer thinks their code is Fort Knox until someone shows up with a $5 USB rubber ducky....

May 12, 2025 · 3 min · 538 words · Maxim Zhirnov
Web Accessibility: Because Not Everyone Surf's the Same Wave

Web Accessibility: Because Not Everyone Surf's the Same Wave

Picture this: You’ve built a gorgeous website that looks like a Monet painting crossed with a cyberpunk neon sign. But if a screen reader navigates it like a GPS system in a corn maze, you’ve just created digital abstract art. Let’s turn that Picasso-esque experience into a Bob Ross happy little tree everyone can climb. 1. Semantic HTML: The Frame of Your Accessibility House <!-- Bad: Div soup à la mode --> <div class="button-like-element" onclick="doStuff()">Click me maybe</div> <!...

May 11, 2025 · 3 min · 619 words · Maxim Zhirnov
To Regulate or Not to Regulate: AI's Data Diet and the Case for Government Snack Supervision

To Regulate or Not to Regulate: AI's Data Diet and the Case for Government Snack Supervision

Picture this: you’re training an AI model like it’s a particularly chatty parrot. You feed it 10,000 romance novels, and suddenly it starts spitting sonnets. Give it 4chan archives, and… well, let’s just say you’ll need ethical mouthwash. This is why I argue governments need to be the nutritionists of AI’s data diet - because left unsupervised, our models might develop ideological scurvy. The Great Data Buffet: Why Regulation Isn’t Optional AI models munch data like competitive eaters at a hotdog contest....

May 11, 2025 · 3 min · 550 words · Maxim Zhirnov
Why Your Test Automation Obsession Might Be Costing You Pizza Money

Why Your Test Automation Obsession Might Be Costing You Pizza Money

Picture this: You buy a $5,000 industrial chainsaw to slice your morning bread. Your neighbor uses a $10 kitchen knife. Who’s the real winner here? Welcome to the world of test automation overkill - where we’ll explore when manual testing isn’t just good enough, but actually better than its flashy automated cousin. When Manual Testing Outshines Automation (And Saves Your Sanity) Let’s cut through the buzzword buffet and examine three scenarios where manual testing isn’t just sufficient - it’s superior:...

May 10, 2025 · 4 min · 693 words · Maxim Zhirnov