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. …

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…