Davide de Paolis

Trouble maker and Problem solver ⚙️🔧 Loves simplicity, hates bullshit 💩. Productivity obsessed, avid learner 🖥🚀 Sport and outdoor freak 🧗⛰ Metalhead 🎸🤘 Father of 2 👨‍👩‍👦‍👦 Opinions are my own

Hamburg Joined on Jan 28, 2019

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Technical Lead at Goodgamestudios

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Make mistakes, and ask questions. It's OK!

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From Engineer to Tech Lead - Doubts and Challenges

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Sep 7 '20

Good habits, good code quality

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Jan 6 '20

Strive for simplicity

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Aug 12 '19

The biggest advice I could give to another developer

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May 20

Solve TypeScript 'Not all code paths return a value' by properly using ReturnTypes | CodeReview Chronicles

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Have you considered starting a company?

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Where do you find CFPs (Call For Papers) and Conferences to speak at?

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May 17

Should employers force employees to turn on webcam during online meetings?

#watercooler #mentalhealth #careeradvice #healthydebate

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Apr 30

Where do you find CFPs (Call For Papers) and Conferences to speak at?

#watercooler #speaking #help #callforpapers

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Apr 27

Invoke AWS Services Cross Account from Lambda (with AWS CDK and AWS SDK v3)

#serverless #aws #lambda #refactoring

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Apr 19

Code Reviews are bottlenecks. What is the point of Code Reviews?

#bestpractice #codereviews #techleadership #beginners

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Mar 31

Typescript Enums are bad!!1!!!1!!one - Are they really?

#javascript #beginners #bestpractices #typescript

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Mar 22

How do you define 'Impactful work'?

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Feb 28

Jest Testing like a Pro - Tips and tricks

#unittesting #javascript #bestpractices #node

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Feb 21

Learn how to ask good questions. Be aware of the XY Problem.

#help #beginners #careeradvice #productivity

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Jan 25

Filter Lambda Events from DynamoDB Stream (with CDK)

#aws #serverless #lambda #javascript

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Jan 19

Code Review chronicles: destructuring, linting and one valid reason for Typescript

#bestpractices #codereviews #beginners #javascript

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Dec 21 '21

DynamoDB - dynamic method to insert or edit an item

#aws #javascript #debugging #serverless

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Dec 16 '21

AWS SDK v2 or v3 - which one should you use?

#aws #serverless #javascript #lambda

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Nov 16 '21

Event loops and idle connections: why is my lambda not returning and then timing out?

#debugging #beginners #javascript #aws

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Nov 11 '21

The screw and the hammer: Love the problems, not your solutions.

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Nov 1 '21

Daily Standup Meetings are useless

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Oct 25 '21

Recursively copy files from server to local

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Oct 22 '21

Find and Count files on AWS S3 by size

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Oct 20 '21

Your jobs is boring and everything sucks - Here are some tips.

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Sep 23 '21

When everything is urgent, nothing is. What is Alarm Fatigue and how to deal with it.

#mentalhealth #learning #development #codequality

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Sep 7 '21

Divide and Conquer! An approach to software engineering project management.

#career #publicspeaking #development #projectmanagement

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Aug 30 '21

How can you access AWS resources from different accounts? Use different Profiles.

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Aug 3 '21

Lint rules updates: a sane and safe approach to fixes

#coding #bestpractices #agile #beginners

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Jul 21 '21

Harmless code and Obvious code - a Code Review Chronicles about Date validation

#beginners #javascript #codequality #codereviews

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Jul 19 '21

Quick serverless && lambda debugging tip

#aws #beginners #debugging #mentoring

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May 25 '21

Sequelize and MySQL debugging quick tips

#mysql #fullstack #javascript #database

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May 3 '21

Debugging Chronicles: Serverless offline + Sequelize

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Apr 7 '21

Coding is Boring! why do you love coding?

#career #beginners #advice #softwareengineering

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Mar 10 '21

Maybe you should start listening to that voice telling you that YOU SUCK!

#career #personalgrowth #beginners

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Feb 25 '21

What do you mean with: "There is no root cause" ?!?

#chaoseengineering #architecture #debugging #testing

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Jan 27 '21

How to fix Range Not Satisfiable Error in React-Admin

#debugging #react #api #node

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Jan 22 '21

From 11 seconds to 160 milliseconds 🚀 - Refactoring Chronicles

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Jan 14 '21

Filter Operators in React Admin and Sequelize

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Jan 4 '21

Managing Incompetence: An Innovative Approach for Dealing with People

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Dec 31 '20

A year without goals (2020 retrospective - 2021 resolutions)

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Dec 4 '20

Stupid Bash! Stupid me! Comparing Strings in Bash

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Dec 2 '20

You have only limited time and attention. Eliminate the noise!

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Nov 12 '20

Make your lambda fail! Use Chaos Engineering to improve the resiliency of your serverless application.

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Nov 5 '20

5 Tips for successful blogging ( + 1 to build a solid personal brand)

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Nov 2 '20

How to deal with rejections and failures

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Oct 27 '20

Mock a RESTful API with AWS APIGateway and MockIntegration

#aws #serverless #fullstack #javascript

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Oct 20 '20

Do you do Snapshot Testing?

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Sep 14 '20

Lego bricks, pinheads and 10X developers

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Sep 1 '20

I've always been using isNaN wrong! (and you?)

#beginners #javascript #development #testing

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Aug 25 '20

Disable Arrow-Parens Lint rule in XO and Prettier

#beginners #bestpractice #javascript #codequality

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Aug 19 '20

Are good software engineers Pessimists?

#career #motivation #programming #development

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Aug 10 '20

Alone against a bug.

#debugging #beginners #productivity #learning

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Aug 7 '20

Basic Auth on Lambda + Api Gateway + Cloudfront: solving the 401 Unauthorized error.

#serverless #aws #authorization #javascript

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Jul 30 '20

What´s wrong with Array.reduce ?

#healthydebate #javascript #bestpractice #discuss

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Jun 2 '20

Store your git ssh in keychain (and make it persist across logins)

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May 25 '20

Reduce Lambda invocations and code boilerplate by adding a JSON Schema Validator to your API Gateway

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May 11 '20

Should you ask permission to write better code?

#career #beginners #programming #bestpractice

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May 4 '20

It's working, why change it? - Code Review Chronicles

#codequality #beginners #codereview #javascript

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Apr 27 '20

Watch out your Cloudwatch logs, or it could be expensive!

#aws #billing #logs #programming

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Apr 21 '20

Public speaking in times of Covid19

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Apr 15 '20

Is coding a Sprint or a Marathon?

#programming #beginners #career #productivity

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Apr 13 '20

#staythefuckhome but still live your life to the fullest

#motivation #personalgrowth #life #quarantine

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Apr 9 '20

Fix GIT after MAC OS Catalina update (xcrun error)

#tips #programming #git #mac

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Apr 6 '20

Planning Poker in times of Corona Virus

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Mar 30 '20

Please be professional and stop saying "I'm almost done!"

#beginners #bestpractices #communication #career

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