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Karol Galanciak

@Azdaroth

CTO and Co-founder of Smily, formerly BookingSync | Helping you become a Modern Engineering Leader

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Joined September 2012
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Elevate Your Engineering Culture: The Power of Documenting Architecture Decisions - newsletter.modern-engineerin…
Elevate Your Engineering Culture: The Power of Documenting Architecture Decisions

Elevate Your Engineering Culture: The Power of Documenting Architecture Decisions

Learn why clear, accessible decision logs can enable collaboration and learning.

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Meet the Real 10x Developer - The Product Engineer - newsletter.modern-engineerin…
Meet the Real 10x Developer - The Product Engineer

Meet the Real 10x Developer - The Product Engineer

Learn why the 10x impact is the key, not 10x output

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Skip-Level 1-on-1s: The Underrated Practice for Stronger Engineering Teams - newsletter.modern-engineerin…
Skip-Level 1-on-1s: The Underrated Practice for Stronger Engineering Teams

Skip-Level 1-on-1s: The Underrated Practice for Stronger Engineering Teams

And how to make them your secret weapon for sustaining alignment

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How to supercharge your engineering career with Brag Journal - newsletter.modern-engineerin…
How to supercharge your engineering career with Brag Journal

How to supercharge your engineering career with Brag Journal

And why every leader should adapt it in their teams to improve engineering culture

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Unlocking the potential of 1-on-1 meetings - newsletter.modern-engineerin…
Unlocking the potential of 1-on-1 meetings

Unlocking the potential of 1-on-1 meetings

Stop having boring status updates that everyone hates and start having career-changing conversations!

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Why you need to become a Modern Engineering Leader in 2025 - newsletter.modern-engineerin…
Why you need to become a Modern Engineering Leader in 2025

Why you need to become a Modern Engineering Leader in 2025

To thrive in 2025 and beyond, you cannot just stay in the technology lane.

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The last part of the RDS Database Migration Series has just been published on Smily's Engineer blog, this time it's about making RDS Proxy work with Ruby on Rails apps- smily.com/engineering/rds-da…

RDS Database Migration Series - Integrating Ruby on Rails applications with RDS Proxy

Here comes the last part of the series—making Ruby on Rails applications work with RDS Proxy.

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Beyond the Engineering: How Tech Executives Can Collaborate With Other Business Leaders to Prevail Over Technical Debt - karolgalanciak.com/blog/2024… #technicalDebt #softwareEngineering #TechLeadership #BusinessStrategy #EngineeringManagement
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Beyond the Engineering: The Business Risks of Ignoring Technical Debt - karolgalanciak.com/blog/2024… #technicalDebt
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The Future of Ruby and Rails in the Age of AI - obie.medium.com/the-future-o…
The Future of Ruby and Rails in the Age of AI

The Future of Ruby and Rails in the Age of AI

Rubyists Will Lead the AI Revolution via Prompt-Driven Development

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RDS Database Migration Series - Facing The Giant: How we migrated 11 TB database - smily.com/engineering/rds-da… at @BookingSync engineering blog has just been released! #postgresql #AWS #database

RDS Database Migration Series - Facing The Giant: How we migrated 11 TB database

The story of facing the giant - a migration of 11 TB database to AWS RDS

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Another article on @BookingSync Engineering blog, this time it's Event Sourcing with Rails from scratch - smily.com/engineering/event-… #rails #eventsourcing

Event Sourcing with Rails from scratch

Last time, we got familiar with the main concepts of Event Sourcing and reviewed the cons and pros of this approach. Let's see it in practice now.

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Learn about the massive challenges of using AWS DMS we experienced and how we prevailed in the end @BookingSync - smily.com/engineering/rds-da… #aws

RDS Database Migration Series - A horror story of using AWS DMS with a happy ending

Learn about the massive challenges of using AWS DMS we experienced and how we prevailed in the end.

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The Art of Forking: Unlocking Scalability in Ruby - mensfeld.pl/2024/02/the-art-…
The Art of Forking: Unlocking Scalability in Ruby - Closer to Code

The Art of Forking: Unlocking Scalability in Ruby - Closer to Code

Introduction The journey towards efficient parallelization in library development has often been based on using threads. As Karafka celebrates its eighth anniversary, it's become clear that while...

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Transaction Isolation in Postgres, explained - thenile.dev/blog/transaction…
Transaction Isolation in Postgres, explained

Transaction Isolation in Postgres, explained

Ever dealt with glitches in a SaaS platform where your actions don't seem to sync up? That's often a transaction isolation issue in databases. Lets talk about transaction isolation and how they work...

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Kafka is dead, long live Kafka - warpstream.com/blog/kafka-is…
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Blogged: A story of a spectacular success - Intro to AWS RDS database migration series - smily.com/engineering/a-stor… #aws #rds #postgresql

A story of a spectacular success - Intro to AWS RDS database migration series

An intro to our AWS RDS migration story and the spectacular success we achieved with a couple of challenges on the way.

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Rails Middleware: (Almost) Everything You Need to Know - writesoftwarewell.com/rails-…

Rails Middleware: (Almost) Everything You Need to Know

In this post, we'll learn almost everything about Rails middleware: what it is, why we need it, how it works, and why it's so important.

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Inter-Process Communication With Ruby - brandoncasci.com/2023/08/28/…
Brandon Casci - Inter-Process Communication With Ruby

Brandon Casci - Inter-Process Communication With Ruby

Explore inter-process communication in Ruby using dRb. Learn how to implement distributed systems for efficient message handling and process management in Ruby applications.

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Just published another blog post at @BookingSync engineering blog, which is also an intro to outrframework for CDC over #kafka using #karafka in Rails applications, check this out! smily.com/engineering/integr…

Integration Patterns for Distributed Architecture - Intro to dionysus-rb

In the previous blog post, I promised we would introduce something special this time. So here we go - meet almighty Dionysus, who knows how to make the most of Kafka.

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