Who we are

Catalin DUMITRAS

Principal Cloud Architect

About Catalin DUMITRAS

Catalin is Principal Cloud Architect and an experienced Solutions Architect at Pentalog.

He also has extensive experience as Consultant, Technical Lead and Software Developer for clients in various business sectors, with a focus on e-commerce companies and software publishers.

His technical know-how covers a rich tech stack that includes PHP, Magento, DevOps & Amazon Web Services, and a passion for IT security & Artificial Intelligence.

Amazon Web Services: Deliver High Quality Solutions Fast

Amazon Web Services (AWS) – the leader in Cloud Services – has data centers all over the world, and more features within those services than any other cloud provider globally (1957 new features were released only in 2018), innovating in areas such as Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things and Serverless Computing. In the fourth quarter […]

Serverless Web Applications with Node.js and AWS

You’re probably hearing more and more about serverless web applications recently. While some snarky people might say, “there are always servers somewhere” (and they’re right), that’s not the point. Once upon a time, people had to raise animals and work the fields to get food; now, we go to the market (supermarket, farmer’s market, online […]

Improving Python Microservices with a Service Mesh in AWS

It’s been a while since you started working with Python microservices; they’re great, but not perfect. You now have hundreds of microservices, and managing communication between them is becoming a full-time job. If you were to draw a diagram of the information flow today, it would be obsolete by next month. Let’s dive into a […]

How to Up Your PHP Microservices Project with AWS?

When you started developing your first PHP project you never would have thought that some of the biggest challenges won’t come from your codebase. But your day looks a lot different than you expected. You’re handling downtime once or twice a week, know more than you have ever wanted about hard drives and debugging in […]

Serverless CI/CD Pipelines with AWS Services, for Your DevOps Needs

Today’s world moves fast, faster than ever! In almost every business context, speed is a key factor, sometimes the most important one. Every startup wants to be the first to bring its product to market, every company wants to get in front of the competition. And this is felt the most by us, developers. Luckily, […]

How to Start Your Java Project Quickly on AWS?

You’re a Java developer, it’s the end of Sprint 1, and you have no environment for demo. This new Java project of yours is a POC of a new service your company would like to launch and the resources you were promised from day one keep getting re-allocated to something else. Of course, this would […]

Technical Debt: Crash Course

Have you ever heard of “Technical Debt”? If you work in IT, you’ve more than likely fallen victim to the effects of the coding counterpart to Financial Debt. If you’re one of the lucky few who hasn’t, consider this your crash course! I’ll be demystifying what Technical Debt really is, explaining why it’s sometimes acceptable […]