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Periklis Gkolias

In love with Python, but I admire all the stacks that offer solutions without testing my patience. Avid productivityist, great-food worshipper, always-smiling.

Location Greece Joined Joined on  github website twitter website

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Msc

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Full stack software engineer

Not so obvious tech that I believe will become mainstream
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Not so obvious tech that I believe will become mainstream

#trends
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How different are managed and serverless services?

Thank you, I will. Stay tuned :)

30 Tips for Software Engineering Careers, After 30 Years of Life

Glad you like it. You may check Mindshift as well. Also at co...

Switching to Arch Linux

Nice setup. Congratulations on moving to a great distro. Unle...

What is the biggest misconception about being a software developer?

That the job is "paid to google things". Sadly from an opinio...

10 Advanced Projects to Build in 2021

It is indeed an interesting problem to solve, I was in the sa...

10 Advanced Projects to Build in 2021

Thank you for the ideas Henry. Finally a text of ideas that d...

10 Fantastic Books By Developers For Developers

Thank you :)

10 Fantastic Books By Developers For Developers

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How different are managed and serverless services?
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How different are managed and serverless services?

#cloudskills #cloud #cloudnative #serverless
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What are your first-choice when it comes to picking convolutional neural network architectures and why?
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What are your first-choice when it comes to picking convolutional neural network architectures and why?

#help #machinelearning
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Myths about self teaching that need to be busted
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Myths about self teaching that need to be busted

#architecture #beginners #career
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A gRPC primer from a non-gRPC dev
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A gRPC primer from a non-gRPC dev

#microservices #webdev
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If a candidate has been cofounder in a startup, will that increase the possibility of you, handing them an offer?
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If a candidate has been cofounder in a startup, will that increase the possibility of you, handing them an offer?

#discuss
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Git Bisect, the Undervalued Debugging Machine Gun
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Git Bisect, the Undervalued Debugging Machine Gun

#git #productivity
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You set up a new dev team. What are the first things you would do to make things go as smoothly as possible?
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You set up a new dev team. What are the first things you would do to make things go as smoothly as possible?

#watercooler #discuss #leadership
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If you had to create a desktop app what tech stack would you use?
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If you had to create a desktop app what tech stack would you use?

#discuss #help
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How to get certified as a professional scrum master, the fast and the slow way
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How to get certified as a professional scrum master, the fast and the slow way

#agile
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12 Ways to Keep Up With the Software Engineering Trends
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12 Ways to Keep Up With the Software Engineering Trends

#learning #motivation #trends
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How would you create a web API with streaming input and output (eg stocks monitoring system) without tools like Kafka and Spark?
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How would you create a web API with streaming input and output (eg stocks monitoring system) without tools like Kafka and Spark?

#discuss #webdev #help
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What are some (theoretical and pragmatic) cases where it is worth having your own servers instead of renting from a cloud vendor
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What are some (theoretical and pragmatic) cases where it is worth having your own servers instead of renting from a cloud vendor

#discuss
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Do you have any rituals to get up to speed, when coming back from holidays?
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Do you have any rituals to get up to speed, when coming back from holidays?

#watercooler #discuss
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30 Tips for Software Engineering Careers, After 30 Years of Life
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30 Tips for Software Engineering Careers, After 30 Years of Life

#career #productivity #codenewbie
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A Primer on Python Partial Functions
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A Primer on Python Partial Functions

#python #functional
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Oh Podcasts, Why Do You Have to S*ck?
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Oh Podcasts, Why Do You Have to S*ck?

#podcast #learning
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If you are working remotely, how do you keep yourself accountable, productive and efficient without external supervision?
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If you are working remotely, how do you keep yourself accountable, productive and efficient without external supervision?

#discuss #productivity #remote #workfromhome
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How to initialize a Singleton mongo connection with expressjs
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How to initialize a Singleton mongo connection with expressjs

#help #javascript #node #mongodb
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What are your sleep hacks? How do you handle a tough day and fall asleep immediately after lying down?
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What are your sleep hacks? How do you handle a tough day and fall asleep immediately after lying down?

#watercooler #discuss
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Has anyone used Eclipse Che? What are the main pros and cons you encountered?
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Has anyone used Eclipse Che? What are the main pros and cons you encountered?

#discuss #productivity
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Have you been to IoTBDS conferences before? What is your view on the quality?
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Have you been to IoTBDS conferences before? What is your view on the quality?

#discuss #eventsinyourcity
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Can I somehow see trending tags over a period of time?
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Can I somehow see trending tags over a period of time?

#discuss
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How do you deal with naysayers? (friends, family, colleagues...doesn't matter)
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How do you deal with naysayers? (friends, family, colleagues...doesn't matter)

#discuss #watercooler
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How would you approach a big data query(many TBs of dataset) with non-big data solutions?
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How would you approach a big data query(many TBs of dataset) with non-big data solutions?

#discuss #help
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Generate cooking recipes that guarantee food poisoning, with LSTM based libraries
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Generate cooking recipes that guarantee food poisoning, with LSTM based libraries

#deeplearning #lstm #neuralnetworks #python
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A quick way to automate your conda uninstalls
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A quick way to automate your conda uninstalls

#littlehacks #conda #python3
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How to scale python server, for enterprise purposes?
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How to scale python server, for enterprise purposes?

#discuss #python #scalability
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I just finished Code complete cover to cover. Here are the most unexpected things I learned
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I just finished Code complete cover to cover. Here are the most unexpected things I learned

#books #programming #codecomplete #covertocover
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The Devops Introduction I Wish I Had
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The Devops Introduction I Wish I Had

#cloud #devops #provisioning #cicdpipeline
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Dear Technical Recruiter…
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Dear Technical Recruiter…

#recruiting #softwareengineering #career
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What is your experience with Safari Books training?
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What is your experience with Safari Books training?

#selflearning #videotraining #pluralsight #safaribooks
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Devops and Infrastructure for the Solo Dev
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Devops and Infrastructure for the Solo Dev

#continuousintegrati #devops #codereview #solodevs
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Code Review for the Solo Dev
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Code Review for the Solo Dev

#solodevs #softwaredevelopment #codequality
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Asyncio, the invincible
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Asyncio, the invincible

#python #asynchronous #asyncio
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What the future of web dev might be if Serveless and GraphQL dominate?
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What the future of web dev might be if Serveless and GraphQL dominate?

#discuss #webdev
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Is there any way to filter our "saved" articles?
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Is there any way to filter our "saved" articles?

#meta #featurerequest
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Self Testing for Solo Devs
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Self Testing for Solo Devs

#codequality #testing #developer #qa
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Can we somehow enforce dev.to to "get" the feed update from medium, without waiting 20-30 minutes?
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Can we somehow enforce dev.to to "get" the feed update from medium, without waiting 20-30 minutes?

#discuss #meta
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How to Survive a Noisy Office Environment
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How to Survive a Noisy Office Environment

#productivity #flow #careeradvice
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Web Assembly for Buzzword Haters
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Web Assembly for Buzzword Haters

#webassembly #javascript
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Why do some languages disrupt some common and habitual conventions?
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Why do some languages disrupt some common and habitual conventions?

#discuss #languages
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The Definite Guide to Pick the Correct Music While Working
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The Definite Guide to Pick the Correct Music While Working

#music #productivity #binauralbeats
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What is your task management process? Do you use trello, asana, calendar etc or a hybrid? And how?
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What is your task management process? Do you use trello, asana, calendar etc or a hybrid? And how?

#productivity #tools
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The Incredible Hulk(ython): Making Python Strong(ly Typed)
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The Incredible Hulk(ython): Making Python Strong(ly Typed)

#python3 #static
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What techniques do you employ to reduce the defects that will appear in the first delivered version?
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What techniques do you employ to reduce the defects that will appear in the first delivered version?

#discuss #programming #deployment #bugs
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Stepping up your javascript debugging skills
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Stepping up your javascript debugging skills

#tipsandtricks #problemsolving #javascript #debugging
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What does it mean that a neuron fires, in layman terms? What is the output usually?
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What does it mean that a neuron fires, in layman terms? What is the output usually?

#explainlikeimfive #machinelearning #neuralnetworks
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Django by example(Antonio Mele) — book review
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Django by example(Antonio Mele) — book review

#python3 #bookreview #django
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Explain why developers are bad at testing their work, like I am five
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Explain why developers are bad at testing their work, like I am five

#explainlikeimfive
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Doctests, the shy giant of testing modules
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Doctests, the shy giant of testing modules

#testing #continuoustesting #python #doctests
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What sites do you read to learn about "early-stage-technologies"
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What sites do you read to learn about "early-stage-technologies"

#discuss #earlyadopters #programming
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The art of leveraging your time
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The art of leveraging your time

#productivity #selfimprovement #technology #timemanagement
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The art of leveraging time
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The art of leveraging time

#leverage #productivity #timemanagement
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How being lazy, led me to publicize my first python package
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How being lazy, led me to publicize my first python package

#python #pythonpackages #pypi #opensource
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Must-read books for software engineers — the alternative list
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Must-read books for software engineers — the alternative list

#books #programming #booksrecommendation #procrastination
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What do you think is the relationship between exercise and goal-achieving?
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What do you think is the relationship between exercise and goal-achieving?

#discuss #fitness #exercise #goals
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What are the necessary technical and soft skills to thrive as a remote worker?
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What are the necessary technical and soft skills to thrive as a remote worker?

#discuss #remote #career
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How to get familiar with a new codebase
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How to get familiar with a new codebase

#codereading #newcodebase #legacycode #opensource
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Fantastic youtube channels, with top-quality learning for software engineers
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Fantastic youtube channels, with top-quality learning for software engineers

#youtube #tutorial #programming #top5
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