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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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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?

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

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?

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

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.

The most urgent actions were required in the “Funds” section, where users began to keep significant transaction history logs, multiple different assets, and various currencies. The “Funds” section gives the possibility of making withdrawals, deposits, and transactions between investors. In short, this is one of the most often used sections of the entire application. What did we want to improve & what were the effects?

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

Have you ever wondered how it happens that search results are delivered to a user so quickly? Even when there is a big dataset behind the search engine API, searched items are usually delivered in milliseconds. How so?

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.

Is it possible to programmatically generate PDF file using web technologies? You are right, it is. What’s more – it’s probably much easier than you thought.

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

How do you like maintaining lots of bash scripts defined in `crontab`. If you worked in a team responsible for a data flow you know what I mean. If it starts with one script it is OK. But if your crontab grows and grows it is no more fun. Or maybe you are running your BI processes which are doing well in your current warehouse but you encounter problems with the optimization and there are not enough resources to scale your workers up?

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!

Databricks is a unified data analytics platform for massive-scale data engineering and collaborative data science. It is a powerful tool to serve so many purposes. How difficult it is to use? Fairly easy! How to upload data into it?

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.

Protecting against malicious file uploads is a must these days as most applications store and process data files in one way or another. Building a self-driven, automated and accurate pipeline for eliminating those threats is not a simple task

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.

Is my website secure? You bet it is! I’m using HTTPS… Hang on, there’s more?

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?

Every month we try to spend some time after work on talking, integrating and sharing our knowledge and experiences in coding (and more as you will read later).

Time tracking exercise and what problems it solved

We get asked regularly what services we prefer to use for certain tasks or problems, so we’ve created this list of products that helps us at Exlabs deliver better products.

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