May 30, 2018Make It Real Elite — Week 8: S.O.L.I.DLast time we’ve talked about databases and their main features, I hope you found that useful. Today it’s about to get very solid, so stay close. :) I would like to bring on the table the concept of S.O.L.I.D. developed by Robert C. Martin, known also as Uncle Bob. Well…Software Development5 min read
May 22, 2018Make It Real Elite — Week 7: Databases — MySQL, Cassandra, CouchDB and MongoDB.Welcome back, peeps :) Today we’ll go through some info in relation to databases. Let’s break down together some of the main types to keep in mind for a trick or two: SQL, and NoSQL. Here’s something you’d like to know beforehand. If you’re up for using SQL, then would…Programming6 min read
May 20, 2018Make It Real Elite — Week 5 and 6: Serapis, a code evaluator API using Go, PostgreSQL, RabbitMQ, Docker, Helm and Kubernetes.Today we’ll talk about a new project that held me busy the past two weeks. With no further due, let’s dive into what Serapis is and does. I’ll start off by giving you the following example. Think of Make It Real Camp. This is a platform offering online courses to…Docker9 min read
May 1, 2018Make It Real Elite — Week 4: Search Engine Load Balancer - Scaling with Docker and HAProxyFrom where I’m standing it’s 9:15AM. Already by now, there are around 2.200.000.000 requests that have been sent to Google’s search engine since 12:00AM. This is crazy, if not mind-blowing. After writing the last two posts about “Go search engine indexer” and “Go search engine WEB client” we can now…Docker7 min read
Apr 30, 2018Make It Real Elite — Week 3: Search Engine Client — WEB application using GolangWelcome back! This is the second publication of the WEB Search Engine series. Previously we built a search engine indexer to crawl the Internet from a starting given URL, while using ElasticSearch to store our information taking advantage of the full text search functionality. If you missed it, no biggie…Golang6 min read
Apr 30, 2018Make It Real Elite — Week 3: Search Engine Indexer — Crawling the internetSearch engines play an essential part in our lives, and they influence lots of jobs in the world, specially software development positions. Have you ever wondered how they work? How Google can have the correct information everytime you want to search for something? What is the strategy to crawl all…Golang6 min read
Apr 15, 2018Make It Real Elite — Week 2: Recursivity, concurrency and GoroutinesI bet you’ve heard of Sudoku before. I bet you did try to play and solve many times this famous game. If you haven’t tried yet, well here are the rules: a number from 1 to 9 can be present once and just once for each row, column and 3x3…Programming8 min read
Apr 6, 2018Make It Real Elite — Week 1: Stack & Queue“A data structure is a particular way of organizing and storing data in a computer so that it can be accessed and modified efficiently. …Programming9 min read
Apr 4, 2018Make It Real Elite: A new challengeIt’s been 4 years since I attended the first onsite version of Make It Real Camp, an intensive 12-week boot camp where I learned the cornerstones of WEB Development. Since then, I have been very fortunate with all the things that I have done. Reflecting upon my coding journey, today…Programming4 min read
