Oleksandr Andrushchenko

Oleksandr Andrushchenko

@oleksandr-andrushchenko

Software Engineer & Solution Architect

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Software Engineer with experience building and optimizing scalable applications across healthcare, fintech, e-commerce, media, and logistics. Skilled in Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, PHP, cloud architecture (AWS Certified Solutions Architect & Developer), and database design (RDBMS, NoSQL). Delivered 40+ projects, improving performance, scalability, and reliability. Experienced in architectural decision-making and driving projects from concept to deployment.

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API Versioning and Backward Compatibility

API Versioning and Backward Compatibility

APIs rarely remain unchanged. New product requirements introduce additional fields, updated validation rules, improved resource models, and different response structures. However, mobile applications, third-party integrations, internal services, and customer systems may continue depending on an olde
Jul 14 api rest-api api-versioning
API Pagination, Filtering, and Sorting Explained

API Pagination, Filtering, and Sorting Explained

API pagination , filtering , and sorting control how clients retrieve large collections without loading every record at once. These features directly affect database performance, response latency, consistency, cache behavior, and the long-term stability of an API contract.
Jul 13 api rest-api
API Rate Limiting and Throttling Explained

API Rate Limiting and Throttling Explained

API rate limiting controls how many requests a client may send during a defined period. Throttling controls how the system responds when traffic exceeds its allowed rate or the infrastructure approaches capacity.
Jul 12 api rate-limiting throttling
API Authentication and Authorization Explained

API Authentication and Authorization Explained

API authentication verifies who or what is making a request. API authorization determines what that authenticated identity is allowed to do. They are related security layers, but they solve different problems and should be designed independently.
Jul 11 1 authentication authorization api
REST API Design for Production Systems

REST API Design for Production Systems

REST remains the most common architectural style for public APIs , mobile backends, SaaS platforms, and microservices. While building a REST API is relatively simple, designing one that remains intuitive, backward compatible, scalable, and maintainable for years requires much more than choosing HTTP
Jul 10 rest-api api production
APIs Explained: How Backend Services Communicate

APIs Explained: How Backend Services Communicate

APIs are the contracts that allow backend systems, frontend applications, mobile apps, third-party integrations, and internal services to communicate. A good API hides implementation details while exposing a stable way to request data, trigger actions, and exchange information between systems.
Jul 09 1 api backend-services protocols
Amazon ECS Best Practices for Production

Amazon ECS Best Practices for Production

Amazon ECS production best practices are less about memorizing service options and more about designing reliable container workloads. A production ECS service needs safe deployments, private networking, least-privilege IAM, useful observability, correct scaling signals, and predictable failure handl
Jul 08 amazon-ecs best-practices production
Amazon ECS Deployment Strategies and Auto Scaling

Amazon ECS Deployment Strategies and Auto Scaling

Amazon ECS deployment strategies and auto scaling determine how containerized services change over time. Deployments control how new versions replace old versions, while auto scaling controls how many tasks run as traffic, resource usage, or queue backlog changes.
Jul 07 amazon-ecs deployments auto-scaling
Running Production APIs and Background Workers on Amazon ECS

Running Production APIs and Background Workers on Amazon ECS

Amazon ECS is often used for two common production workload types: HTTP APIs and background workers . Both run as containers, but they have different traffic patterns, scaling signals, failure modes, and operational requirements.
Jul 06 amazon-ecs aws serverless
Amazon ECS Networking Explained: VPC, ALB, Subnets, and Security Groups

Amazon ECS Networking Explained: VPC, ALB, Subnets, and Security Groups

Amazon ECS networking is the architecture layer that controls how containers receive traffic, communicate with dependencies, stay isolated, and remain reachable during deployments. For production ECS services, networking is usually where reliability and security problems appear first.
Jul 05 amazon-ecs aws aws-networking
AWS Fargate vs EC2 for ECS: Architecture Trade-Offs

AWS Fargate vs EC2 for ECS: Architecture Trade-Offs

AWS Fargate and the EC2 launch type are two ways to run Amazon ECS tasks. Both use the same ECS concepts: task definitions, tasks, services, deployments, IAM roles, networking, and load balancers. The main difference is who owns the compute layer.
Jul 04 aws-fargate amazon-ec2 aws
Amazon ECS Task Definitions, Services, and Deployments Explained

Amazon ECS Task Definitions, Services, and Deployments Explained

Amazon ECS task definitions , tasks , services , and deployments are the core runtime model behind ECS. A task definition describes how a container should run, a task is a running copy of that definition, a service keeps tasks alive, and a deployment replaces one version with another.
Jul 03 aws amazon-ecs containers
Amazon ECS Explained: A Beginner-Friendly Introduction

Amazon ECS Explained: A Beginner-Friendly Introduction

Amazon Elastic Container Service , usually called Amazon ECS , is a managed container orchestration service for running containerized applications on AWS . It helps turn Docker images into production workloads by handling task scheduling, service stability, deployments, networking integration, scali
Jul 02 aws amazon-ecs containers
AWS Lambda Execution Lifecycle Explained

AWS Lambda Execution Lifecycle Explained

AWS Lambda execution lifecycle explains what happens from the moment a Lambda function is invoked until the function finishes and the execution environment is either reused or removed. Understanding this lifecycle helps explain cold starts , warm starts , global variable reuse , SDK client reuse , d
Jul 01 aws-lambda serverless aws
AWS Lambda Cold Starts Explained

AWS Lambda Cold Starts Explained

AWS Lambda cold starts are one of the most discussed topics in serverless architecture. A cold start happens when AWS Lambda needs to create a new execution environment before running your function. This extra initialization time can increase latency, especially for user-facing APIs.
Jun 30 aws-lambda serverless cloud-computing
AWS Lambda Concurrency and Scaling

AWS Lambda Concurrency and Scaling

AWS Lambda concurrency is one of the most important concepts to understand before running serverless applications in production. Lambda can scale quickly, but that does not mean every downstream system can handle unlimited parallel requests.
Jun 30 1 aws-lambda concurrency scalability
AWS Lambda Best Practices for Production

AWS Lambda Best Practices for Production

AWS Lambda is easy to start with, but production Lambda systems require more than writing a handler function. You need to think about idempotency , retries , timeouts , IAM permissions , database connections , observability , deployment strategy , and downstream limits .
Jun 28 aws-lambda serverless best-practices
AWS Lambda Performance Optimization

AWS Lambda Performance Optimization

AWS Lambda performance optimization is not only about cold starts. A slow Lambda function can be caused by heavy dependencies, poor memory configuration, slow network calls, database connection problems, inefficient batch settings, or downstream systems that cannot handle Lambda concurrency.
Jun 27 aws-lambda serverless performance-optimization
AWS Lambda Event Sources Explained

AWS Lambda Event Sources Explained

AWS Lambda is event-driven by design. A Lambda function usually does not run by itself. It runs because something invokes it: an HTTP request, uploaded file, queue message, database stream record, schedule, or event from another AWS service.
Jun 27 aws-lambda serverless event-source
AWS Lambda Architecture Patterns

AWS Lambda Architecture Patterns

AWS Lambda is often introduced as a simple way to run code without managing servers. But in real production systems, Lambda is rarely used alone. It usually becomes part of a larger architecture with API Gateway , SQS , SNS , EventBridge , DynamoDB , S3 , Step Functions , and other AWS services.
Jun 26 1 aws-lambda serverless cloud-computing
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