The first time I saw the phrase “Lean and Mean” was back in the day, in the most peculiar place; a C pre-processing header in the Windows API (the actual name was WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN). …

People loved (and many of them still love) Agile. It is something like the Holy Grail, it will lead us to a brave new world that development will be a cool and orderly process. To be honest, I like it, but you know there is a saying (at least in…

Recently, I was looking (don’t ask why, maybe I will tell you in the future, if I ever get the time and focus) at Docker Engine SDKs, searching if you could start/stop containers programmatically. It seems that you can, and in a variety of languages, like golang, python or via…

Regular expressions is a DSL (Domain-specific Language), which is used to match patterns of text. They are everywhere. All major programming languages have a built-in library that supports a flavor of regular expressions. The following article attempts to explore the origins of regular expressions and present their basic syntactic variations. Origins of Regular Expressions …

The mainstream is always under attack. So is SQL and in general the various RDBMSs that implement their various incarnations. After the golden age of MySQL and the LAMP (Linux-Apache-MySQL-PHP) stack, various NoSQL databases appeared, preaching that the data storage as we knew it was coming to an end. The Crusade Everyone…

Technologies that are related to software engineering, occasionally produce the following phenomenon; they occasionally re-invent the wheel. Not only that, but these technologies are presenting themselves as mind-blowing, we-are-going-to-save-the-world of solutions. Not so long ago, IP Networking was invented and people thought that it would be cool to have several…

The last 5–7 years, I always stumble upon the same issue. You want to experiment with some ideas, or even a small microservice, which language are you going to choose? I am always fond of using a static language like golang to test my ideas, or put something performant in…

For 20 years at least, I hear people preach about how the web-apps will take over the world, and there is no reason to have anything else, but only a browser. Chromebooks were (and still are) the incarnation of that. More or less, they are full blown computers running web-based…

People usually treat historical artifacts with respect. To be completely frank, with my Greek heritage, it is one thing that I learned, from the time I remember myself. People like Herodotus and Plutarch are still studied very carefully to shed light in several parts of the human history. I am…