Periklis Gkolias articles - 65 total
The journey to join the offensive security highs (part 1)
Over the years and regardless of their specialization, I have met only a couple of people that didn’t...
The IAM introduction I wish I had
The term IAM is one of the common you hear in cloud-native environments. What does such a system do,...
What can La Casa De Papel teach you about Cybersecurity
I was watching the TV series, La Casa De Papel (Money Heist) on Netflix, a few weeks ago. I realized...
How to evaluate if a Certification is worth it (for you)
Asking whether you should go for a certification or not, is maybe the most sought-after knowledge...
Not so obvious tech that I believe will become mainstream
By the time of writing of this article everyone knows, the "technologies of the future" as listed...
How different are managed and serverless services?
A common confusion between people who have their first touchpoint with cloud technologies is What i...
What are your first-choice when it comes to picking convolutional neural network architectures and why?
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Myths about self teaching that need to be busted
Self-teaching is the norm in the industry, many years now. Most of the technologies you learned durin...
A gRPC primer from a non-gRPC dev
I keep hearing about gRPC those days; not sure if the existing trend is soaring or it is a coincidenc...
If a candidate has been cofounder in a startup, will that increase the possibility of you, handing them an offer?
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Git Bisect, the Undervalued Debugging Machine Gun
Git bisect is a fantastic tool that could make debugging a breeze. Yet, very few people use it active...
You set up a new dev team. What are the first things you would do to make things go as smoothly as possible?
Imagine you are setting up a new dev team. Either to your current company or to a new one. What are...
If you had to create a desktop app what tech stack would you use?
My first choice would be Electron but I know it is a bit bloated (haven't developed on it). Ideally,...
How to get certified as a professional scrum master, the fast and the slow way
A few months ago, I got the Professional Scrum Master Certification (PSM I). As this is a trending c...
12 Ways to Keep Up With the Software Engineering Trends
I'm getting the question of how to keep up with the trends of the field quite often. So I'm writing...
How would you create a web API with streaming input and output (eg stocks monitoring system) without tools like Kafka and Spark?
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What are some (theoretical and pragmatic) cases where it is worth having your own servers instead of renting from a cloud vendor
I would love to hear extreme and "rare" cases, not just the usual ones like "the boss is scared of da...
Do you have any rituals to get up to speed, when coming back from holidays?
For clarity, let's consider holidays, any absence longer than 4 days and only for good reason. I am...
30 Tips for Software Engineering Careers, After 30 Years of Life
I turned 30, a few days ago. An interesting decade, where I did and learned a lot of things came to a...
A Primer on Python Partial Functions
Partial functions are one of the most "terrifying concepts" I hear people talking about. Personally,...
Oh Podcasts, Why Do You Have to S*ck?
I find podcasts extremely overrated. Yeap, I know this is an extremely selfish and biased opinion, es...
If you are working remotely, how do you keep yourself accountable, productive and efficient without external supervision?
I think the most difficult thing on remote working is to not get sidetracked. Which, lets be honest,...
How to initialize a Singleton mongo connection with expressjs
I am trying to initialize a mongo Singleton connection with expressjs in the app/server.js file, in a...
What are your sleep hacks? How do you handle a tough day and fall asleep immediately after lying down?
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Has anyone used Eclipse Che? What are the main pros and cons you encountered?
It recently got into my attention as I am trying to find a cheap and steady web ide solution to have...
Have you been to IoTBDS conferences before? What is your view on the quality?
It looks really interesting to me and I would appreciate your real-world experience. http://iotbds.o...
Can I somehow see trending tags over a period of time?
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How do you deal with naysayers? (friends, family, colleagues...doesn't matter)
People might try to stop you from progressing, especially if they can't keep up with your progress....
How would you approach a big data query(many TBs of dataset) with non-big data solutions?
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Generate cooking recipes that guarantee food poisoning, with LSTM based libraries
Unless you are living in the Amazonian forest with no access to the Internet, there is literally no c...