Bohdan Stupak articles - 26 total
Using RAG architecture for generative tasks
Large language models are used widely across the industry these days. Yet still, many people are...
Describing musical domain with F#
One of my recent projects was to create software that would automatically generate music based on a predefined set of rules. The degree of randomness I've planned to introduce would let me create different melodies every time, while the set of rules I was planning to create would ensure that it still would sound nice. In this article, we'll have a look at how these rules are encoded in F#
Composing poésie concrète with AWS Step Function
Writing distributed pad-reduce job based on AWS Step Function to craft art that regenerates itself each week.
Dynamic polymorphism: key concept to master OOP
The world of object-oriented programming is a bit confusing. It requires mastering a lot of things:...
Visualizing your photos on a map with React Native
that time, I had a Nokia Lumia phone with a nice widget that displayed the locations of the photos...
Applying custom similarity calculation in Elasticsearch
Elasticsearch has a rich set of tools to produce relevant search results. But sometimes, they're not suited so well for your case so you might need to tweak similarity calculation. In this article, we'll see one such example.
Implementing clean architecture in Go
The holistic process of writing clean architecture API in Go. Starting from the well-tested domain, providing an API layer for it, documenting it using OpenAPI standard, and packaging our runtime together with the app and thus simplifying the deployment process.
Property-based tests and clean architecture are perfect fit
Brief overview of property-based testing with fscheck
Crafting generative art with javascript generators
Apart from career programming and management tasks, I spend my free time doing creative coding. Most...
Leveraging lazy evaluation
This article shows how utilizing lazy evaluation and caching can save us from wasteful computation
It's not about how you inject your services, it's about how you test them
The main goal of this article is to show that engineers should understand the benefits and shortcomings of the principles they are applying instead of just blindly following them.
Improving Elasticsearch-based autocomplete
A practical overview of different index-time and query-time ways to improve relevance of autocomplete query in Elasticsearch
Overriding JSON serializer in Giraffe
In some cases, a built-in Giraffe JSON serializer might be insufficient. In this short tip, we show how to override it.
Strive for short-lived synchronous communication
Short tip explaining the importance of asynchronous communication
Prefer using Stream to byte[]
A short example of how byte[] misuse may hurt memory consumption
DateTime.TryParse and the case of Z letter
This short tip aims to fill the gap in docs explaining what is ISO-8601 date format, how it is treated by DateTime.TryParse compared to other formats
Batch processing with Directory.EnumerateFiles
In case one wants to retrieve files from catalog, Directory.GetFiles is a simple answer sufficient for most scenarios. However, when you deal with a large amount of data, you might need more advanced techniques. Directory.EnumerateFiles is the API that allows you to organize batch processing for the directory with a large number of files.
Converting video with FFmpegCore
This article shows how you can use FFmpegCore to process your video
Using Span<T> to improve performance of C# code
This article shows how one can easily improve performance with this relatively new C# feature.
Refactoring string into the specific type
An example when string is too broad type to capture all domain requirements and how to handle it
Building auth endpoint with Go and AWS Lambda
Super-minimal auth endpoint with Go and AWS lambda
Leader election with Redlock.net
This article shows how a .net programmer can perform leader election for a microservice-based system via acquiring a distributed lock.
Dependency Injection for Quartz.NET in .NET Core
The article shows how to perform dependency injection when using Quartz.NET library employing standard .NET Core DI container library. Also, we'll focus on a couple of other useful .NET core techniques.
Querying Last.fm web API with F#
This article will introduce you to some benefits of F# programming language.
Pure CSS Salesforce-like progressbar control
This article covers several CSS techniques as using LESS, using display flex and some CSS hacks.
Assigning class responsibilities with GRASP
Assigning responsibilities to classes is an eternal struggle for OO-developers. But it can be tackled with General Responsibility Assignment Software Patterns (or Principles), abbreviated GRASP