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Writing cleaner Jest tests

Discover 5 essential strategies to bolster AWS database security, including encryption, access control, and serverless computing. Learn how to utilize Secrets Manager, monitor for credential leaks. Secure your company’s data today!

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Stop using Excel to analyse your cloud costs

This guide explores the transition from Excel to Metabase for efficient and secure cloud cost management. Learn how Metabase can enhance your cloud cost analysis process.

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Scaling the IT Ladder: Tactics for Growth and Waste Minimization​

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Establishing Clear Roles and Responsibilities: A Key to Optimizing IT Team Performance

Delve into our comprehensive guide that unveils the significance of well-defined roles and responsibilities within IT teams. Discover how clarity in roles can eliminate waste, foster accountability, and enhance decision-making processes, driving team growth and organizational success.

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Empowering IT Teams through Servant Leadership: A Strategy to Boost Growth and Reduce Waste

Explore how servant leadership, a potent approach in IT management, can unlock team growth and curb wasteful practices. Dive into the principles of servant leadership, and understand how it fosters a collaborative, creative, and supportive environment, leading to improved performance and organizational success.

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How to Speed Up Existing Azure Infrastructure Migration to Terraform? Discover our Time-Efficient Solution – Bid Farewell to Manual Configuration! 🚀

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5 Strategies to Improve Database Security on AWS

Discover 5 essential strategies to bolster AWS database security, including encryption, access control, and serverless computing. Learn how to utilize Secrets Manager, monitor for credential leaks. Secure your company’s data today!

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The Essential Areas of AWS Security: What You Need to Know

Discover crucial AWS security practices in this comprehensive guide by Exlabs. Learn about IAM, VPCs, encryption, and monitoring to ensure your cloud infrastructure is secure and compliant. Stay ahead in the ever-evolving world of cloud security.

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🌊 Riding the Wave: What Does a 23.45% CAGR for Serverless Mean for Business? 🌊

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5 things that every junior Java developer should learn to find the dream job

Kickstart your Java developer career with these 5 essential skills: Core Java concepts, Version Control Systems, Java Frameworks, Testing, and mastering IDEs & tools. Learn, practice, and excel to land your dream job in the competitive programming industry.

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Implementing concurrent access to Elasticsearch resources

Learn how to easily make use of Elasticsearch mechanism in order to achieve optimistic concurrency control. Learn approach that makes state of you applications much safer without making heavy impact on the performance.

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Facebook and Clickjacking Attack – Check If Your Website is Vulnerable

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Tabnine & GitHub Copilot

Article compares Tabnine and GitHub Copilot – two AI-powered code completion tools. Our comparison is based on pricing, code completions, cloud/offline mode, code privacy & compliance, AI model training, and integration. How do they compare? Check out article by Piotr Leś, our Frontend Developer.

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Use Cases of HashiCorp Vault

In this article, we’ll take a look at some of the most valuable use cases of Hashicorp Vault and the secret engines that are used to deliver that functionality.

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Protect your data against Cross-Site Scripting Attacks with Content Security Policy​

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Unlock the Benefits of FinOps: Streamline Operations, Increase Efficiency and Drive Business Growth

FinOps promotes a culture of collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement, helping organizations achieve strategic goals.

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7 code testing rules you should be aware of

Seven rules of software development testing you should always follow. Best practices for QA experts by Software Testing Qualification Board.

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Mateusz Wilczyński appointed the CTO of Exlabs

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Hashicorp Vault – is it worth it?

Hashicorp Vault seems to present itself as an industry leader. Let’s check if it’s the right choice for you. Let’s compare Hashicorp Vault & AWS Secrets Manager.

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How to rotate Secrets using AWS Lambda?

Custom secrets rotation in AWS Secrets Manager is not so simple. Learn about available solutions & process automation.

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What is CIS Benchmark?

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Introduction to Secrets Rotation

Rotation is the process of periodically updating a secret. The secret can be an API key, security credential, encryption key, or any other sensitive value. The manual rotation process can be time-consuming and human error-prone. How to automate the rotation process using the AWS Lambda service?

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Terraform Module: ECS Secrets Manager

How to enable secure access to secret values for Docker containers run on AWS ECS? Use ECS Secrets Module by Exlabs (for free).

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AWS Account Security Assesment

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Protecting Web Application: Cloudflare vs AWS WAF

Whatever you choose, AWS WAF or Cloudflare, both will help you in the first line of defence against SQL Injection attacks, Cross Site Scripting, CSRF and basic IP blocking. It’s definitely worth to use them. But what are the key differences, so you can pick the right tool for the job?

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How to sleep well at night without experienced CISO (featuring DevSecOps, SSDLC, vCISO)

Does your company lack Chief Information Security Officer? It may seem risky, but do you really need one? What are the alternatives?

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Mastering Cloud Cost Analysis with Metabase

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8 fallacies of distributed computing: 1. The network is reliable

You may say that the network in professional data centres is good enough, and you can treat it as a reliable asset. You are wrong.

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Generate CSV file from your data and analyze them

Learn how to generate CSV files from your data using React CSV generator & how to analyze data. Hands-on tutorial by our Frontend JS Developer – Damian Pawłowski.

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Funds section UX for the client from fintech industry

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Transforming IT systems into agile data hubs​

Read the guide on how to manage complex IT premises and still be open for innovation, use of new technologies, and don’t suffer from the maintenance burden.

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Text Search & Elastic: ecosystem – more than a search engine

This article is intended to help you understand what is inside the Elastic ecosystem and what tools we have there.

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Elastic – its engine

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Text Search – it is not a simple problem. How to get started?

Do you sometimes wonder: where did I put it? Or when trying to remember something, do you have this thought: where did I see this? This is our life in the 21st century. Everything we know comes from the internet: what is the weather like – check online, what was the result of yesterday’s football game – check online, where to buy pink trousers – buy online. The internet is an information highway with almost no limits. How does this relate to your business?

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Maximize your savings by automatizing workflows

Automatization of workflow processes with AI is the future that we already see happening today. McDonald’s is investing in AI solutions by acquiring Apprente, Dynamic Yield, and Plexure, their tools and know-how.

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How to generate PDF in Javascript – a step by step guide

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Have db logs killed our PostgreSQL on AWS?

We have killed our PostgreSQL on AWS by accident! Learn what we have learned from case study in a post by our CTO, Krzysztof Szromek.

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Static Web Pages are back in the game!

Static pages are back in the game now! Chceck security benefits, business opportunities and associated costs.

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Orchestrate data pipelines with Azure Data Factory​

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Instruction: Left Join for Advanced Rubyists

Every now and then you will need to keep a track of user activities in the system. This can be approached in several possible ways – one possible solution is to store them as an activity log in the database. This alone can create some challenges and may require you to use less common SQL statements in the Ruby on Rails apps like LEFT JOIN, hence I’ve decided to shed some light on it.

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SQL is the language of Big Data

SQL is a very popular language. With new tools, you often need to learn their API however, the new “language”. There is no such need with a big data leader: Apache Spark. You may write effective transformations using SQL here!

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Databricks: How to upload data?

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CQRS – Another “buzzword” or game changer?

CQRS is not as popular as it seems, especially in real-world applications. Learn how to maintain an application with frequently changing business using a pattern that is easy to understand and implement.

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Process as Code – next big thing in digital transformation

Growing organisations struggle to keep everyone aligned with policies and processes, ensuring smooth information flow and efficiency. Learn how to streamline processes, eliminate “ghost-roles”, evolve processes in a predictable maneer.

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Is your cloud protected against malicious file uploads?​

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DevOps Transformation at DevOpsDays Warsaw

After our visit to AWS Summit London, we knew that embracing DevOps culture is important for becoming a first-class citizen of the cloud. To learn more about it, we went to DevOpsDays Warsaw.

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AWS Summit London: Key takeaways for Cloud Transformation

Last Wednesday we took part in AWS Summit conference in London which brought together over 6,000 tech professionals to learn about AWS toolkit. Here’s what every business should takeaway from it.

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What is Content Security Policy & how to implement it?

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React/Redux todo app written in Ruby

This post is to help Ruby users understand ideas behind React and Redux.

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When should you modernise front-end?

The web world is moving fast and solutions that have been built a few years ago are quickly becoming outdated. Does it mean your company should throw away all of the work and investment made into those products and rebuild them from scratch?

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Code&Pizza #3 Meetup

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Choosing the right front-end for the project

There’s a handful number of front-end frameworks on the market to choose from. So which one should you give a go?

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Time tracking exercise and what problems it solved

Time tracking exercise and what problems it solved

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40 tools we use for efficient web development

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Software: buy or build? Do both.

Interesting and useful answers to the question will help you make informed decisions, not just push a certain view.

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Best practices on keeping codebase clean

Few ways of ensuring you develop great, clean code with minimum effort.

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