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Cost of learning

· 3 min read
Matej Jelluš
Tech leader and IT nerd who is constantly trying new things, sharing his experiences and still enjoys writing code in his free time. Currently looking for new challenges and opportunities.

One of the best ways to learn something new is to actually try it. I wanted to learn how to use AWS and some of its services, so I moved my projects to AWS. This was just a very basic setup (EC2, S3, CloudFront). Later I wanted to use additional services like Cognito, RDS, MediaConvert, Simple Queue Service, Simple Email Service, etc. So I started building a new project where I was able to use those. It started "slowly" with costs like $20 per month, grew with database to $100 per month and later to almost $300 per month with Kubernetes and other services. And now I am back to $20 per month.

Web Summit 2021

· 2 min read
Matej Jelluš
Tech leader and IT nerd who is constantly trying new things, sharing his experiences and still enjoys writing code in his free time. Currently looking for new challenges and opportunities.

This week, 1 - 4 November, Web Summit conference held in Lisbon, Portugal. Me and two other colleagues from Kontentino were there to present Kontentino and listen to some speakers.

My StartUp Experiences

· 4 min read
Matej Jelluš
Tech leader and IT nerd who is constantly trying new things, sharing his experiences and still enjoys writing code in his free time. Currently looking for new challenges and opportunities.

Currently I have one full time job and in my free time I am working on two StartUps. One of them is based in US and the second one is in Slovakia. Both are the same size (3 - 5 people), main project is a web application, but the approach is different.

The Open Source problem

· 2 min read
Matej Jelluš
Tech leader and IT nerd who is constantly trying new things, sharing his experiences and still enjoys writing code in his free time. Currently looking for new challenges and opportunities.

It was a great idea to use git and create portal like GitHub and share source code among other developers. One of the benefits is, you do not need to reinvent the wheel and just use package you need. And because lot of users will add it to their projects, it gets well tested. But I can see there a big problem: maintenance.

Do (not?) write comments

· 2 min read
Matej Jelluš
Tech leader and IT nerd who is constantly trying new things, sharing his experiences and still enjoys writing code in his free time. Currently looking for new challenges and opportunities.

We all know a lot of jokes about comments and why not to write them. Even many articles suggest not to write comments. Why is that so?

Where do I take my energy

· 3 min read
Matej Jelluš
Tech leader and IT nerd who is constantly trying new things, sharing his experiences and still enjoys writing code in his free time. Currently looking for new challenges and opportunities.

Few weeks ago in the late night, my friend asked me, where do I take the energy. He knows I have work, couple of sides projects and from time to time I try to write here some post. Is it some kind of a coffee? Or something else? I didn’t know how to answer, but I was thinking about it during a walk.