Periklis Gkolias

In love with Python, security and cloud. Avid learner and productivityist, great-food worshipper, always-smiling.

Greece Joined on Feb 8, 2018

Education

Msc

Work

Software engineer

Periklis Gkolias

Mar 29

The IAM introduction I wish I had

#cloud #security #iam #auth

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How different are managed and serverless services?

Thank you, I will. Stay tuned :)

May 17 '21

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

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

May 16 '21

Switching to Arch Linux

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

Mar 2 '21

What is the biggest misconception about being a software developer?

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

Feb 21 '21

10 Advanced Projects to Build in 2021

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

Jan 31 '21

10 Advanced Projects to Build in 2021

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

Jan 30 '21

10 Fantastic Books By Developers For Developers

Thank you :)

Dec 30 '20

10 Fantastic Books By Developers For Developers

I didnt know some of the books, thanks for bringing them up. ...

Dec 30 '20

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Periklis Gkolias

Jan 13

What can La Casa De Papel teach you about Cybersecurity

#cybersecurity

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Nov 22 '21

How to evaluate if a Certification is worth it (for you)

#career

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Jun 14 '21

Not so obvious tech that I believe will become mainstream

#trends

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May 16 '21

How different are managed and serverless services?

#cloudskills #cloud #cloudnative #serverless

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Oct 2 '20

What are your first-choice when it comes to picking convolutional neural network architectures and why?

#help #machinelearning

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Sep 28 '20

Myths about self teaching that need to be busted

#architecture #beginners #career

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Sep 15 '20

A gRPC primer from a non-gRPC dev

#microservices #webdev

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Sep 11 '20

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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Jul 21 '20

Git Bisect, the Undervalued Debugging Machine Gun

#git #productivity

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May 25 '20

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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Apr 20 '20

If you had to create a desktop app what tech stack would you use?

#discuss #help

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Mar 23 '20

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

#agile

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Feb 24 '20

12 Ways to Keep Up With the Software Engineering Trends

#learning #motivation #trends

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Feb 21 '20

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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Feb 17 '20

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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Dec 18 '19

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

#watercooler #discuss

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Dec 10 '19

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

#career #productivity #codenewbie

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Nov 25 '19

A Primer on Python Partial Functions

#python #functional

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Sep 16 '19

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

#podcast #learning

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Sep 3 '19

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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Aug 26 '19

How to initialize a Singleton mongo connection with expressjs

#help #javascript #node #mongodb

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Aug 22 '19

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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Aug 17 '19

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

#discuss #productivity

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Jul 23 '19

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

#discuss #eventsinyourcity

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Jul 20 '19

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

#discuss

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Jul 12 '19

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

#discuss #watercooler

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Jul 1 '19

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

#discuss #help

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Jul 1 '19

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

#deeplearning #lstm #neuralnetworks #python

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Jun 2 '19

A quick way to automate your conda uninstalls

#littlehacks #conda #python3

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May 2 '19

How to scale python server, for enterprise purposes?

#discuss #python #scalability

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Mar 26 '19

I just finished Code complete cover to cover. Here are the most unexpected things I learned

#books #programming #codecomplete #covertocover

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Mar 11 '19

The Devops Introduction I Wish I Had

#cloud #devops #provisioning

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Mar 5 '19

Dear Technical Recruiter…

#recruiting #softwareengineering #career

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Feb 7 '19

What is your experience with Safari Books training?

#selflearning #videotraining #pluralsight #safaribooks

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Jan 28 '19

Devops and Infrastructure for the Solo Dev

#continuousintegrati #devops #codereview #solodevs

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Dec 31 '18

Code Review for the Solo Dev

#solodevs #softwaredevelopment #codequality

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Dec 20 '18

Asyncio, the invincible

#python #asynchronous #asyncio

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Dec 6 '18

What the future of web dev might be if Serveless and GraphQL dominate?

#discuss #webdev

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Nov 30 '18

Is there any way to filter our "saved" articles?

#meta #featurerequest

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Nov 16 '18

Self Testing for Solo Devs

#codequality #testing #developer #qa

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Oct 30 '18

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

#discuss #meta

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Oct 30 '18

How to Survive a Noisy Office Environment

#productivity #flow #careeradvice

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Oct 16 '18

Web Assembly for Buzzword Haters

#webassembly #javascript

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Oct 5 '18

Why do some languages disrupt some common and habitual conventions?

#discuss #languages

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Aug 27 '18

The Definite Guide to Pick the Correct Music While Working

#music #productivity #binauralbeats

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Aug 14 '18

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

#productivity #tools

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Aug 7 '18

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

#python3 #static

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Jun 27 '18

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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Jun 25 '18

Stepping up your javascript debugging skills

#tipsandtricks #problemsolving #javascript #debugging

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Jun 19 '18

What does it mean that a neuron fires, in layman terms? What is the output usually?

#explainlikeimfive #machinelearning #neuralnetworks

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Jun 18 '18

Django by example(Antonio Mele) — book review

#python3 #bookreview #django

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Jun 7 '18

Explain why developers are bad at testing their work, like I am five

#explainlikeimfive

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May 29 '18

Doctests, the shy giant of testing modules

#testing #continuoustesting #python #doctests

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May 24 '18

What sites do you read to learn about "early-stage-technologies"

#discuss #earlyadopters #programming

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May 14 '18

The art of leveraging time

#leverage #productivity #timemanagement

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Nov 22 '18

The art of leveraging your time

#productivity #selfimprovement #technology #timemanagement

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May 8 '18

How being lazy, led me to publicize my first python package

#python #pythonpackages #pypi #opensource

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Apr 9 '18

Must-read books for software engineers — the alternative list

#books #programming #booksrecommendation #procrastination

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Apr 8 '18

What do you think is the relationship between exercise and goal-achieving?

#discuss #fitness #exercise #goals

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