Today we spent half a day, on our first HackTheTower event. Members of London's Java User Group (aka LJC), gathered on the 26th floor of SalesForceTower (aka Heron Tower) at the City of London, invited by: Heather VanCura Mani Sarkar Simon Maple to talk and learn about one Project Jigsaw, Java 9's modular-isation …

I guess lots of people will have something similar, I thought to share my small customized container. So here, you can find a small Alpine Based container, stuffed with bash curl envsubst kubectl helm (client) It is mostly used as a _gitlab runner, in order to _talk to kubernetes clusters (injected with the appropriate …

I find my self doing lots of work in the terminal lately, I have to admit I was not that type of guy or an expert, but over the years I needed to step my bash/cmd/terminal game. So I just red yesterday this very short and simple article, and I was like, wait a minute I've done some of these mistakes in the past. Master …

I am thinking (or maybe I can see), that while more companies jump to the cloud, migrating their existing software solutions and services, things like tech-debt or architectural-debt are going to become a first class citizen and hot topic, again. Which is a good thing! Really! I am very happy about it, because I do …

Last Thursday & Friday, I did a short trip to Greece in order to attend the very first Voxxed Days in Greece, it took place in Thessaloniki. First, I would like to congratulate, the master mind behind the overall organization +Patroklos Papapetrou , who eventually succeeded and materialized a long-lasting dream (for …

Wow, how many lost minutes or hours, every day, because I did not know this a long time ago. I am bit ashamed. How many times, while working on your mac you get to Open a File, and the system by default opens an editor or an application that is usually set by default. I can not count how many times I have killed Xcode …

I always enjoyed sharing knowledge. One of the reasons I blog is to share my knowledge on things around my job as a software engineer. Founding and running (with a handful of friends) the first Java User Group in Greece back in 2003, was due to the fact that we could not get sufficient training or access to personal …

One of the great things, when living in London is that you have access to meetup's and communities for almost every technology you will ever manage to get interested in. After attending the first EU Kubernetes Conference - KubeCon (2 months ago), this was my second time attending the 'Kubernetes London Community' in …

Πριν από 4 μέρες κλείσαμε 1 χρόνο ως νεο-μετανάστες, όπως πολλοί που διαβάζουν αυτό το blog είναι ήδη υποθέτω. Θεωρώ ότι ανήκουμε στην κατηγορία, αργήσατε αλλά τα καταφέρατε μιας και αρκετός κόσμος την είχε ήδη κάνει την τελευταία πενταετία. Θυμάμαι εκείνο το πρωίνό στον Ελ.Βενιζέλος, νόμιζα ότι πάω διακοπές και θα …

Το να βρω νέο dojo και να ξεκινήσω προπονήσεις είναι στιγμή ορόσημο σε κάθε αλλαγή χώρας. Εύχομαι ότι δε θα χρειαστεί άλλη. Μετά απ΄το σύντομο πέρασμα σε ένα αρκετά συμπαθές και μικρό σύλλογο στο Luxembourg, σήμερα έκανα την πρώτη μου προπόνηση στο Sobell Judo Club, στην περιοχή του Isligton (κοντά στο emirates) που …