A friend asked me to put down my self-organizing tools in writing. There is no reason not to share them with the rest of you. The text below starts from the daily and builds to the multi-year process. …

I travel a lot. Really, and I like strong computers — as wasting time on slow responses is not efficient. When I come to a client — I bring a portable office with me, that means the keyboard I am used to and have all the shortcuts on, cables that…

key takeaways cluster and containers !== friends, don’t use those together moleculer services break into containers/pods extremely well and easily mix matched the retry feature is extremely useful and works well circuit breaker — at least in this limited scenario, is not that useful (but its complicated) Background It seems as if these…

TL;DR My attitude towards motivation can be summarized by the best motivator Jocko Willink https://www.instagram.com/p/CH8Cl7tDjBG/ https://www.instagram.com/p/CLmPqtzDeTp/ By nature, I am among the laziest, spoiled, fun-seeking persons. Sometimes it takes me one to two hours to push myself out of the door on cold days. …

Every software architect knows the importance of metrics. Real life is the same — you cannot improve what you cannot measure (if not improve, at least not slip down). We know that brain and body are connected. The body oxygenates the brain. How do you know that it all works…

Physical (and expected cognitive) measurement gadgets It would be hard to optimize what you do not measure. Body and mind are connected. Focus levels depend on your physical activity(or exertion), diet (or lack thereof), sleep, planning, light exposure, and many more. Some of the things are intertangled; others are not…

With the help of windows docker containers and CoreHost approach, build framework dependent integration tests that run on pull requests, merges and other trigger events automatically on the CI pipeline. In this essay I describe the approach. While developing a solution that uses ESRI ArcGIS pro solution, I have to…

Abstract Many applications require encryption both at rest and in transit, while traditional databases provide this out of the box, redis require a bit of additional work. This article shows you how to do it in zero effort on a running k8s cluster. Many articles around the web show you how…

A few years ago ESRI pushed a new line of product, which they stated, will not replace the elderly ArcMap for quite some while, oh boy time flies when you have fun. Unmistackingly currently ESRI are pushing forward and ArcPro becomes the goto tool for the “mainstream” tasks. For those…