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Periklis Gkolias

Software engineer turning to Security, Cloud, and Blockchain. Amor fati

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The journey to join the offensive security highs (part 1)
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The journey to join the offensive security highs (part 1)

#security
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The IAM introduction I wish I had
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The IAM introduction I wish I had

#cloud #security #iam #auth
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What can La Casa De Papel teach you about Cybersecurity
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What can La Casa De Papel teach you about Cybersecurity

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

#career
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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?
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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
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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 time
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The art of leveraging time

#leverage #productivity #timemanagement
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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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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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