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…

Do you know the most popular graph processing solution? No? Don’t worry. There is no such thing yet. — We all depend on the Internet to search for potential solutions to technical problems. For example, for big data problems after five minutes in Google you will find out that Spark may help you. Even if you have no idea about what is Spark you will come across this name…

Despite its trendiness, you will barely find an edge computing position. — Edge computing was born with content delivery networks such as Akamai. Netflix or YouTube would not exist without edge computing. In the context of distributed systems, this paradigm has recently gained popularity with the new challenges imposed by IoT, AI or mobile phones. The edge is promising millions of dollars…

Edge Computing promises millions of dollars of revenue. However, we do not yet have a definition of what it is. — The first time I heard about edge computing was back in 2015. Since then, I have been working for startups to enable distributed data-driven solutions for the edge. It looks like everybody (or almost everybody) is aware of what edge computing is. …