Ruben Sanchez

Ruben Sanchez @rubenwap

About: Software Engineer

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Nov 19, 2019

Ruben Sanchez
articles - 18 total

69 tips I got from The Pragmatic Programmer

The Pragmatic Programmer is a book by Andrew Hunt and David Thomas written in 1999. I have been...

Learn More 185 1Aug 2 '21

Must-Bookmarks to become good in Go

I am having some days off, so I have compiled a list of Golang resources to go through during this ti...

Learn More 56 0Apr 1 '21

Go RabbitMQ to Kafka ETL with zero lines of Go!

I think that for a big percentage of cases, ETL pipelines are a solved problem. Unless you have very...

Learn More 15 0Jan 16 '21

Create a *useful* Alexa skill with minimal Python knowledge

I am pretty disappointed with the terrible quality of most of the "custom" stuff found in the Alexa s...

Learn More 6 0Dec 8 '20

Making a fast "yes" clone with Go

Following the series on creating Go based clones of the GNU coreutils, today I wanted to do a speed e...

Learn More 5 3Oct 18 '20

Will this quick Julia lesson make you forget about Python for your data needs?

I have been a Python heavy user for some time, so when I learned about Julia I thought that the prosp...

Learn More 18 1Oct 2 '20

Upskill yourself by recreating GNU Coreutils in Go

Reinventing the wheel for fun One of the most popular advice to gain skills programming is...

Learn More 8 0Sep 26 '20

I was doing bad stuff in my first dev job. Sorry! (Part II)

Glad to see you back. It means that you liked the previous part of this article. Or if you haven't se...

Learn More 3 0Sep 24 '20

I was doing bad stuff in my first dev job. Sorry! (Part I)

I got my first developer job almost by accident. I was not looking for a dev job back then, but while...

Learn More 3 0Sep 24 '20

Monitor the behavior of your Python app by learning InfluxDB, Grafana and Telegraf

We will go through a tutorial where Python and Flask will be used. However, you will soon realize tha...

Learn More 32 0Sep 13 '20

How do you approach your DEV "Reading List"?

I have noticed that when faced with articles that are either long, or likely to be useful in the futu...

Learn More 17 9May 22 '20

Use Python in your browser client code together with JS. No server required, thanks to Web Assembly

Use case: Let't say that I love Python Pandas for data manipulation, but at the same time I need to u...

Learn More 81 3May 21 '20

The Go way to parse strings into dates is pretty confusing unless you live in a small fraction of the world

When it comes to date formats, there is about 640 million people who prefer to order using MDY, and m...

Learn More 8 2May 18 '20

Learn to properly test and auto deploy your Go app with a movie posters server project

Creating a well tested application pays off by having a lot less to debug in the future, together wit...

Learn More 10 0May 15 '20

Should you learn Functional Programming?

Have you started learning to program recently and heard that all the cool people are doing functional...

Learn More 7 3Apr 10 '20

Lua and Löve are your gateway drug to videogame making

So I admit it, I always wanted to create a game, but I have been too easily scared by the amount of w...

Learn More 23 3Mar 23 '20

Do you love web scraping with Scrapy? Then check Colly for Go

Scrapy is the star of the web scraping world in Python. There are indeed other beautiful libraries ou...

Learn More 25 2Mar 5 '20

There is such thing as easy API development with Scala

I have to admit I am far from expert in Scala, that's why when recently I had to prototype an API in...

Learn More 11 1Feb 29 '20