Periklis Gkolias

Oct 2

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

#help #machinelearning

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I feel like the quality of posts in Dev is deteriorating

Sadly the pandemic forced people to fill in the empty gaps of...

Nov 20

I Need project ideas

Instagram twitter facebook etc clones are very classic as fir...

Nov 11

What advice would you offer your younger self?

"If you are not ashamed by your last-year-self, you are not g...

Nov 5

Biggest questions getting a job

Those are great questions, thanks Any tips to spot lying in ...

Nov 4

Biggest questions getting a job

My biggest ones are about the engineering culture, the genera...

Nov 3

What is your team code review process?

Pretty much. I have seen the following three approaches (and ...

Oct 25

What is your team code review process?

For all the companies I have worked for it is pretty much ide...

Oct 25

So You Want to be an Architect?

Nice article. As Mark Richards say, architecture is the stuff...

Oct 10

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Periklis Gkolias

Sep 28

Myths about self teaching that need to be busted

#architecture #beginners #career

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Periklis Gkolias

Sep 15

A gRPC primer from a non-gRPC dev

#microservices #webdev

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Periklis Gkolias

Sep 11

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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Periklis Gkolias

Jul 21

Git Bisect, the Undervalued Debugging Machine Gun

#git #productivity

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Periklis Gkolias

May 25

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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Periklis Gkolias

Apr 20

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

#discuss #help

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Periklis Gkolias

Mar 23

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

#agile

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Periklis Gkolias

Feb 24

12 Ways to Keep Up With the Software Engineering Trends

#learning #motivation #trends

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Periklis Gkolias

Feb 21

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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Periklis Gkolias

Feb 17

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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Periklis Gkolias

Dec 18 '19

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

#watercooler #discuss

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Periklis Gkolias

Dec 10 '19

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

#career #productivity #codenewbie

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Periklis Gkolias

Nov 25 '19

A Primer on Python Partial Functions

#python #functional

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Periklis Gkolias

Sep 16 '19

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

#podcast #learning

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Periklis Gkolias

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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Periklis Gkolias

Aug 26 '19

How to initialize a Singleton mongo connection with expressjs

#help #javascript #node #mongodb

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Periklis Gkolias

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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Periklis Gkolias

Aug 17 '19

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

#discuss #productivity

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Periklis Gkolias

Jul 23 '19

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

#discuss #eventsinyourcity

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Periklis Gkolias

Jul 20 '19

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

#discuss

1 min read

Periklis Gkolias

Jul 12 '19

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

#discuss #watercooler

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Periklis Gkolias

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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Periklis Gkolias

Jul 1 '19

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

#deeplearning #lstm #neuralnetworks #python

5 min read

Periklis Gkolias

Jun 2 '19

A quick way to automate your conda uninstalls

#littlehacks #conda #python3

2 min read

Periklis Gkolias

May 2 '19

How to scale python server, for enterprise purposes?

#discuss #python #scalability

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Periklis Gkolias

Mar 26 '19

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

#books #programming #codecomplete #covertocover

2 min read

Periklis Gkolias

Mar 11 '19

The Devops Introduction I Wish I Had

#cloud #devops #provisioning #cicdpipeline

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Periklis Gkolias

Mar 5 '19

Dear Technical Recruiter…

#recruiting #softwareengineering #career

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Periklis Gkolias

Feb 7 '19

What is your experience with Safari Books training?

#selflearning #videotraining #pluralsight #safaribooks

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Periklis Gkolias

Jan 28 '19

Devops and Infrastructure for the Solo Dev

#continuousintegrati #devops #codereview #solodevs

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Periklis Gkolias

Dec 31 '18

Code Review for the Solo Dev

#solodevs #softwaredevelopment #codequality

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Periklis Gkolias

Dec 20 '18

Asyncio, the invincible

#python #asynchronous #asyncio

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Periklis Gkolias

Dec 6 '18

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

#discuss #webdev

1 min read

Periklis Gkolias

Nov 30 '18

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

#meta #featurerequest

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Periklis Gkolias

Nov 16 '18

Self Testing for Solo Devs

#codequality #testing #developer #qa

1 min read

Periklis Gkolias

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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Periklis Gkolias

Oct 30 '18

How to Survive a Noisy Office Environment

#productivity #flow #careeradvice

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Periklis Gkolias

Oct 16 '18

Web Assembly for Buzzword Haters

#webassembly #javascript

3 min read

Periklis Gkolias

Oct 5 '18

Why do some languages disrupt some common and habitual conventions?

#discuss #languages

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Periklis Gkolias

Aug 27 '18

The Definite Guide to Pick the Correct Music While Working

#music #productivity #binauralbeats

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Periklis Gkolias

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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Periklis Gkolias

Aug 7 '18

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

#python3 #static

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Periklis Gkolias

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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Periklis Gkolias

Jun 25 '18

Stepping up your javascript debugging skills

#tipsandtricks #problemsolving #javascript #debugging

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Periklis Gkolias

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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Periklis Gkolias

Jun 18 '18

Django by example(Antonio Mele) — book review

#python3 #bookreview #django

2 min read

Periklis Gkolias

Jun 7 '18

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

#explainlikeimfive

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Periklis Gkolias

May 29 '18

Doctests, the shy giant of testing modules

#testing #continuoustesting #python #doctests

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4 min read

Periklis Gkolias

May 24 '18

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

#discuss #earlyadopters #programming

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Periklis Gkolias

May 14 '18

The art of leveraging time

#leverage #productivity #timemanagement

5 min read

Periklis Gkolias

Nov 22 '18

The art of leveraging your time

#productivity #selfimprovement #technology #timemanagement

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4 min read

Periklis Gkolias

May 8 '18

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

#python #pythonpackages #pypi #opensource

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3 min read

Periklis Gkolias

Apr 9 '18

Must-read books for software engineers — the alternative list

#books #programming #booksrecommendation #procrastination

3 min read

Periklis Gkolias

Apr 8 '18

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

#discuss #fitness #exercise #goals

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1 min read

Periklis Gkolias

Mar 30 '18

What are the necessary technical and soft skills to thrive as a remote worker?

#discuss #remote #career

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Periklis Gkolias

Mar 28 '18

How to get familiar with a new codebase

#codereading #newcodebase #legacycode #opensource

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Periklis Gkolias

Mar 12 '18

Fantastic youtube channels, with top-quality learning for software engineers

#youtube #tutorial #programming #top5

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Periklis Gkolias

Feb 9 '18

A comprehensive introduction to unit-testing and mocking with Python3

#explainlikeimfive #mocking #unittesting #python

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