Jakub Białas
JavaScript Developer / Team Leader
Professional in full-stack web development. His competencies, besides solid technical background, include strengths such as business analysis, solution design or writing technical documentation. His interpersonal skills led him to be involved in project management, team leadership and recruitment.
Jakub's articles list
How Do You Migrate Systems?
Well-prepared system migrations can go smoothly and exactly as planned, or just the opposite, they can go sideways. They can take minutes, or they may drag on for hours or even days. In the worst case, everybody involved is unhappy and the system is frozen. Read the article to find…
Why TypeScript?
Node JS is great for api development, we have used it for ages. We also have great web frameworks like express and koa, nice orms like sequelize, bookshelf, objection and mongoos, and we have a lot of other libraries and plugins that we love to use. Although, sometimes, it feels…
"Alter table" Applied to a Large Table
Do you have a large table and want to alter it? Only for InnoDB? It can be done! What is a large table? For some it’s 100 MB, for others it’s 100 GB, but the question is: How do you make an alter table in a way that doesn’t ruin…
5 Reasons Why It Is Not Worth Rewriting IT Systems From Scratch
When clients are seeking IT services, they are usually in one of two situations: They have a new business idea based on an IT system, or they currently have this type of business and the system is seriously suffering. In the first scenario, there is no dilemma over whether anything should…