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JavaScript in Plain English

The Trend is Not Your Friend

“The trend is your friend” is a famous phrase among stock traders and investors. In a nutshell, it means that traders should follow the…

5 min readJul 18, 2023

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The Trend is Not Your Friend

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Unit-testing a child process in a Node.js\Typescript app

Recently I was involved in building a Node.js app written in Typescript that integrates with Git repositories. The app executes Git…

4 min readJan 6, 2023

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$Unit-testing a child process in a Node.js\Typescript app$

$Unit-testing a child process in a Node.js\Typescript app$

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Wix Engineering

Redis as a Database

I’ve been using Redis a lot in the past few years (and even wrote a post about misusing it), mostly as a cache layer between the App and…

7 min readDec 12, 2021

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Redis as a Database

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REPL Driven Development (RDD)

Its seems like we already have many TLAs (abbreviation of three-letter acronyms — which by itself is a TLA…) for describing different…

7 min readJul 9, 2021

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GitHub Actions, the Sea of Galilee and a Twitter bot

The Sea of Galilee is the lowest freshwater lake on earth, located in the northeast part of Israel. Up until few years ago the lake…

4 min readFeb 8, 2021

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GitHub Actions, the Sea of Galilee and a Twitter bot

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Ring (Clojure) middleware to standardized your API

Writing REST API in Clojure can easily lead to inconsistency naming convention between the API schema and the underline code data…

3 min readSep 2, 2020

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Using babashka for GitHub Actions

I wanted to play around with GitHub Actions for some time but didn’t find the “proper” opportunity to do so. Lately I had the chance to…

4 min readAug 5, 2020

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Using babashka for GitHub Actions

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Writing my FIRST 100,000 lines of code

I’ve recently came across a job post in LinkedIn looking for a developer with just a single requirement:

6 min readDec 20, 2019

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Writing my FIRST 100,000 lines of code

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The Startup

What I didn’t know I didn’t know about Redis

“There are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some…

7 min readNov 30, 2019

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AppsFlyer Engineering

How can “Hello World” program effect the way you think about programing

I’ve recently watched this great talk by Scott Wlaschin on YouTube. One of the things that got stuck in my head after the talk is a quote…

4 min readNov 6, 2019

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How can “Hello World” program effect the way you think about programing

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Tzafrir Ben Ami

Tzafrir Ben Ami

a "Full stack technology leader", trying to solve complex business problems with technology - mainly on the Web and large-scale systems (but not just)

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