By now, Kubernetes should be the default target for your deployments. Yes, there are still use-cases where Kubernetes is not the optimal choice, but these represent an increasingly smaller number…

I wanted to use the now generally available Cloud Spanner database to write an app that would track stock prices and social media sentiment to identify potential correlation.

As part of my ramp up on Google APIs I wanted to create a project that would allow me some practical exercise in a context of a real application.

I recently joined the Office of CTO in Azure at Microsoft and wanted to ramp up on one of the open source projects the team has built there called Dapr. Dapr describes itself as:

The “high-priests” of Big Data have spoken. Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) is now the de facto standard platform for data storage. You may have heard this “heresy” uttered before. But, for me, it wasn’t until the…

After a pretty positive experience with influxdb I wanted to create a super simple telemetry producer (this one in Node.js) to spotlight a few types of time series data query supported in influxdb. (Sourcecode available on GitHub)