Juan M. Tirado

Published in The Startup

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Writing a Programming Book in 2021

After many years building and researching technology for new systems, I decided to write a programming book. May serve this article to share my experience. — It is said that there are three things you must do in your lifetime: plant a tree, have a child, and write a book. I recently finished the last one. Nevertheless, I wrote a programming book. A programming book in the 21st century with all those wonderful online resources you…

Software Development

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Jul 26

Questions you should answer before starting a PhD

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Juan M. Tirado

It is interesting the point you make about my assumption that all advisors are male.

It is interesting the point you make about my assumption that all advisors are male. Personally, I enjoyed the experience of having male and female advisors in the same ratio (50/50). However, (at least in science) the chances of having a male advisor are larger than having a female advisor. It is a matter of probabilities and how is academia nowadays. Said that, that was not my intention and if that is something that can be extracted from this text it is just a matter of how I have used the language, because it does not represent my personal experience. Thanks for reading :)

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Jun 30

Questions You Should Answer Before Starting A PhD

Pursuing a PhD is an option considered by many just-graduated students. However, you should answer some questions before deciding whether a PhD is for you ore not. — This post is dedicated to all of you who are thinking about starting a PhD. If you have ever applied for a job, you would probably know that you are expected to do your homework to maximize your opportunities before applying. If you’re considering applying for a PhD this is…

Science

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Questions you should answer before starting a PhD

May 29

Thoughts after one year using Amazon’s KDP

Kindle Direct Publishing is probably the largest self-publishing platform out there. I have been using it for a year now and I would like to share impressions. — Time flies by. That’s a known fact. It’s been more than a year since I published Build Systems with Go. I have already talked about how does it feel to write a programming book. What I have not talked about is the publication process itself. There is a bunch of…

Writing

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Thoughts after one year using Amazon’s KDP

Published in Better Programming

·Jul 12, 2021

Why Do Developers Hate Programming Languages?

Why developers are wrong when they compare languages — I recently came across a collection of drawbacks, missing points, and errors in the Go language (here). I’ve been working with Go for some years now and I always like to keep on top of new topics. Taking a look at this collection I found other developers’ interesting points of…

Programming

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Published in Dev Genius

·May 27, 2021

Shell Completion with Cobra and Go

A short example of how to get a working shell completion script to push your CLI to the next level. — You probably use a CLI on a daily basis. Depending on the solution the CLI works for, the number of available options can be overwhelming. Because no visual recognition is available, we depend on the help to find the correct arguments. An appealing extension to CLIs is to provide users…

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Published in Dev Genius

·May 13, 2021

Writing a Programming Book in 2021 (part II)

With the new online publishing platforms the number of available programming books is overwhelming. Let serve these lines to discuss about experiences, authors’ concerns, and the idea of teaching a programming language. This post is a continuation of a previous one where I explained some aspects of my experience writing…

Programming

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Apr 19, 2021

Using the Kafka REST API with Go

The Kafka REST API can be a solution when no available native drivers are available for our project. Here is an example of how to use it with Go. — Apache Kafka has demonstrated to be a scalable solution and it is widely adopted as a publish/subscribe event streaming platform. The ecosystem around Kafka is vast and rich and you have probably used one of its many solutions. Kafka uses its own protocol over TCP that can be implemented in…

Programming

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Published in The Startup

·Dec 21, 2020

Are We Living Another Video Games Industry Crash? The Cyberpunk 2077 Case

The most awaited video game of 2020 is a collection of bugs and glitches. This is not something new in the video game industry. — Cyberpunk 2077 is probably the most awaited game from this pandemic 2020. A lot of expectation has been around this game since it was first announced back in 2012. In 2018 it was the sensation during the E3 (the most important video games fair in the world) winning several awards…

Videogames

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Published in Towards Data Science

·Oct 27, 2020

Five challenges of graph processing

A summary of the most relevant problems graph computing practitioners have to overcome. — In a previous post, I exposed my opinion about the lack of a clear platform/solution/framework/architecture for graph processing. However, what are the main issues graph processing has to deal with? Serve these lines as an appetizer for the curious minds out there. (Images are property of the author if not…

Data Science

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