Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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2025/07/20 [Accelerate]
Performance can be improved if each team focuses on their own capabilities. Improvement should be continuous, never-ending process. What is today considered high performance next year will become a baseline or even low performance. In order to improve performance, the first thing we need to do is to measure the current performance. This mean we…
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2025/07/20 [GADM-api]
[GADM-api] I am still working on setting up linode droplet. I am writing a script that will take bare linode and initialize my project with minimal human interaction needed. The process has to fully automated. Human interaction should be limited to accepting firs ssh connection and providing root password once.
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2025/07/19 [GADM-api]
I am setting up virtual machine on Linode. I am working on a script that will setup users, permissions, ssh connections and Caddy server. Once this is done I should be able to leverage another bash script that sets up Postgres cluster.
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2025/07/19 [Accelerate]
Book authors conducted extensive research and recognized 24 capabilities that drive improvement. These capabilities were grouped into 5 sections: – Continuous delivery– Architecture– Product and process– Lean management and monitoring– Cultural The main thesis of the book tries to prove that software and it’s delivery is the main driver of acceleration in almost every industry,…
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2025/07/18
Another anniversary! Today a full month is passing since I started writing daily updates. Since six weeks I am waking up (almost) every day at 6 and working on my self. One month ago I started taking notes on my daily progress.
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2025/07/18 [Accelerate]
Accelerate is a book that I already read once but I want to give it a quick re-read but this time I will be taking notes. It is a very interesting book that shows how ease and frequency of deployments influence company performance and employee satisfaction.
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2025/07/18 [GADM-api]
In this time I read 700 page Postgres book and progressed on my side project – GADM api service. Today I finalized new endpoint that will allow me to create new access tokens. This endpoint has restricted access, only admin users can call it. I think the next step will be to finally setup new…
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2025/07/17 [Learn Postgres]
Hooray! I finished reading “Learn PostgreSQL” book – a 700 page brick 😉 It took over a month of waking up at 6am reading, making notes in my notebooks and summaries on this blog. I was exposed to many new concepts and feature of Postgres that I was not familiar with before. Now I am…
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2025/07/17 [GADM-api]
I started working on a new endpoint that will allow to create new access tokens. This requires a database migration. I added can_generate_access_tokens permissions to admin user. Now all I need to do is finish the endpoint handler. It will ensure the caller has appropriate permissions and valid token, then it will create new token…
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2025/07/16 [Learn Postgres]
I finished the logical replication chapter and started the last chapter of the book – useful extensions.Postgres provide replication monitoring utilities – it’s the same table that monitors physical replication – pg_stat_replication table. You can also get more information about publishing and subscribing processes by querying pg_publication and pg_subscribtion tables on primary and replica nodes…
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