Disclaimer - don't shoot the pianist it's been some time since I wanted to write this post. For those that are going to read it, I need to say that a) I hate the term DevOPs as a way to label engineers b) I'm a software developer, so I am the type of guy who really enjoys high-level languages like Java/ Kotlin etc and …

Well Santa came early for me back at Ticketmaster INTL. When I joined I kind of made a mistake and swapped my original 15 MacBookPro for a smaller one 13inch/iCore5, because I did not want to carry stuff around (even though I don't commute a lot to he honest). Eventually after a year, I am thankful, to receive a …

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 …

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 …

It is known that I am not the biggest fan of Spring, but at the time being I work for an organization that maintains too many projects utilizing Spring (in different forms and versions). I still remain skeptic towards Spring, of course there are some very nice ideas, there are some nice (too many) abstractions, there …

In the project which I recently joined, I discovered a set of annotations, (part of the code) that eventually did not add any functionality but they were marking classes or fields as a potential bad implementation, or as a potential case that may need to be reworked. The original author, had created a very elegant way …

So it is time, after 10 months living and working in Luxembourg, we are leaving. Packaging, arranging relocation, lots of emails, contracts, papers, some anxiety, waiting - it just May 2015 again for me, when we decided to leave Greece. I wish this is my last relocation for the upcoming years, so wish me luck. I have …

One of the projects I follow lately, is Wildfly Swarm. Eventually my request during this year's Devoxx in the JBoss BOF, to consider changing the name of the project, did not go through (due to the conflict with the famous Docker Swarm). So what is Wildfly Swarm? Simply put, is the Wildfly application server (app …

2015, what a year. The year that I eventually managed to get out of my comfort zone (or one of them) and left my country, to work and live abroad, I also proposed to my wife and got engaged. The most weird and unfortunate year in terms of job and career, that did not go very well - many funny people with funny stories …