Questions you should ask before starting a PhD
Answer these questions before starting a PhD.
Posts by Year
2022
Thoughts after one year using Amazon’s KDP
My thoughts and comments after one year publishing content in Amazon’s KDP.
Migration from Wordpress to Jekyll
Migrating a blog from WordPress to Jekyll.
2021
No excuses to learn Go this Summer
To celebrate the Summer, Build Systems with Go is now at 6.99$
Shell completion with Cobra and Go
You probably use a CLI on a daily basis. Depending on the solution the CLI works, the number of available options can be overwhelming. Because no visual reco...
Build Systems with Go v0.2.0 is here!!!
Build Systems with Go v0.2.0 has been released.
Writing a Programming Book in 2021 (part II)
This post is a continuation of a previous where I explained some aspects of my experience writing and self-publishing a programming book.
Using the Kafka REST API with Go
Learn how to build your own Kafka driver in Go using the Kafka API REST proxy.
Writing a Programming Book in 2021
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. Neverthe...
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 with a frustrating user experience. This is not something new in the video game industry.
We Have to Define What is Edge Computing
Edge Computing promises millions of dollars of revenue. However, we do not yet have a definition of what it is.
Log your Go projects with Zerolog
In the 21st century, any decent software project must use a logger. In this post I show you how to have a perfect logger in Go using Zerolog.
Golang features newbies (and not so newbies) may find weird
Humans are wired for prejudice. When we start coding in a programming language we do not feel comfortable. We always point out those features that annoy us t...
The many challenges of graph processing
What are the main issues graph processing has to deal with? Serve these lines as an appetizer for those curious minds out there.
Graph processing: a problem with no clear victor
Even though graph processing is a problem in computer science since its very beginning, there is not a clear victor among all available solutions. Why?
Kubernetes services access control with Istio
Start to control the access to your K8s services using Istio authorization policies to make the most out of your deployments.
Six tips before you start using Istio
Istio can help you to simplify the management of your K8s services. However, it can be a bit intimidating. Check out my six tips before you decide to give it...
What can Borges teach you about overfitting?
Borges described in Funes the memorious the problem of hypermnesias. We can use Borges tale to understand what is overfitting.
Why should you learn LaTeX, or at least give it a try?
LaTeX is one of the most successful and amazing free software projects ever done. It has been around for more than thirty years with two Turing awarded resea...
Covid19 spreading in a networking model (part II)
Design a network based model to predict when a country is infected by Covid19 using air traffic data.
Covid19 spreading in a networking model (part I)
Has air traffic something to do with Covid19? Learn some tools to explore the impact of passengers in pandemics using networks.
Covid-19 forecasting
This is the third part of our series about Covid19 data analysis. We introduce some practical examples of univariate time series forecasting.
Covid-19 interactive plots
This is the continuation of my series about how to manipulate Covid-19 data with Python (first entry here). This post adds some extra complexity and introdu...
Covid-19 visualization
This is the first post of a series of publications describing solutions used in data science. The content is self-explained in a Jupyter Notebook available a...