DEV Community: Fernando

My first big challenge - configuring docker, kong and nodejs

Fernando — Wed, 13 Sep 2023 14:01:02 +0000

Last week, for my learning journey, I wanted to use an API gateway to secure my application.

Searching for solutions, I found Kong, and reading the documentation it seemed easy to install and use.

In the meantime, another tool that I wanted to work with was Docker, so there was nothing better than using Kong and my application in a container to learn how it works.

But, nothing is easy when you do it for the first time, and I found my first big challenge!

The installation process was easy and clean, but, using Kong with Nodejs gave me a hard time!

To make everything worse, I was having a rough week at work, and when I had time to code, I was too tired.

After some days, a lot of documentation reading, searching through forums and git, I found what I was doing wrong, and it was a simple mistake.

Like many others, I learned from that mistake and won the battle against Kong and Nodejs!

From this challenge, I started to write a tutorial to help others with the same problem, which I’ll publish soon.

Again, thanks for reading.

If you have feedback, let me know.

Refactoring - A PM journey trying to relearn software engineering

Fernando — Mon, 04 Sep 2023 14:58:37 +0000

As I said, I will use dev.to to log my progress through returning to the development world.

Last week, I made a big refactoring on my service, using clean architecture, based on the repo below:

https://github.com/dev-mastery/comments-api

I know that you are thinking: "he just copied the structure", but for me, this is the way I found it easy to understand some concepts like dependency injection, and of course, clean architecture and separation of concerns.

Another concept I learned is how easy it is to make some changes and improvements because everything is in the right place.

You can check in the link below:

https://github.com/effelima/agile-metrics

I know that in a work situation, it's not easy to have the same architecture, but, I think I learned a lot.

For my next steps (actually this week) I want to implement unit tests and JWT for security and build a Golang service to get data from GitHub Projects and insert it into a Mongo or PostgreSQL database.

And why will I use a different language to implement this service?

Because Go gets my attention, and I think that it will be cool to use a different paradigm.

Again, if you have some feedback, let me know.

Thanks for reading!

First commit

Fernando — Thu, 31 Aug 2023 20:05:54 +0000

Hello there!

This is my first post at dev.to, where I find that will be a good fit to log my journey through engineering.

Firstly, let me introduce myself: I'm Fernando, working as a Product Manager (a role that I've been in since 2012), but before that, I started as a developer, with PHP and JavaScript, a time when you have to be a full stack (we never call ourselves a full stack, just developers).

I saw the rise of jquery, PHP frameworks such as Cake, Code Igniter... The birth of nodejs, and so on...

But, something has changed 3 years ago...

I always love to be close to the developers, in such a way that I was facilitating some technical discussions, giving some ideas, and helping other engineers on how to discuss with PMs to prioritize technical debts.

Then, DevEx (or DX - Developer Experience) happened (or we started to talk about it), and suddenly, I was involved even close to engineering teams, studying DevOps, Accelerate, DORA, team topologies, AWS...

I think this was a sign to rethink my career.

And right now, I really know what I want, so I'm trying to get back to engineering.

My first commit

To restarting, I pushed my first project with node.js, a simple, under-construction one. You can see here.

As I said, this project is under development, I need to refactor everything since I just sat on my desk and started writing.

I have some "to dos" and improvements in my backlog, such as: using Git Hub Projects API or Trello, showing estimations using historical data, and whatever came to my mind.

If you have some feedbacks about my project, let me know and thanks in advance!