A while back we wanted to set up a single pipeline with deployments of the same application to multiple AWS accounts so we needed to figure out a good clean way to configure the credentials for that. Most people with some experience with AWS and IAM know that you can…
Photo by ThisisEngineering RAEng on Unsplash The IT field is hot. IT people get mind-blowing salaries, have the freedom to work from anywhere, flexible work schedules, and a lot of other benefits. Demand for more IT specialists is very high and increases day by day. This attracts a lot of…
To raise interest from investors, you should demonstrate a validated market hypothesis. Pitching your startup in front of investors can be intimidating. Here are some insights that we believe in and would like to share with founders looking to raise money. Having a well-refined elevator pitch can be as important…
When you have a great product idea in mind, you spend sleepless nights brainstorming. What should be done first? Which feature should be built? How much time do we spend on MVP? Many other questions might come to mind of startup founders and product owners when starting their venture. In…
Authentication in web apps using an Estonian ID card with Nginx is pretty straightforward (although quite unstable). Initial setup Simple ID card authentication boils down to: Enable One-Way TLS on your main domain (e.g. app.example.com)Enable Two-Way TLS on a secondary domain (e.g. id.example.com) using the ID card certificate chain.Redirect user…
Every time we start a new project we do a retrospective and look back at our previous projects and try to evaluate which technical choices were good and where we might have gone wrong. Usually we are pretty happy with our Kotlin + Spring Boot + Postgres based backend, but at least I personally have constantly…
