In the past 2,5 years while working for Ticketmaster in London, I had the chance to use extensively (still do) Fastly, one of the best CDN and Edge Compute services out there. Fastly is not just a web cache but a wholistic Edge service offering. It enables integrators (users) to actually bring their application (web …

I have been working with Kubernetes in production for 2 years now. Over this time we have migrated 3 or 4 times clusters, changed techniques and tools of deployments, changed habit's or pushed back to some of the hype and trends coming up every day on the kubernetes scene. I guess nothing new here, this is what almost …

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 …