software engineering - Christos Sotiriou

Bug hunting: Chance or Chore?

I am very fond of bug-hunting and fixing. Most people I know consider it one of the tedious aspects of the software engineering cycle. But not me.

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You Are an Engineering Manager. Should You Code?

It surprises me when some choose not to

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Using Streams efficiently in NodeJS

How to download and parse a file containing a few millions of entries (around 500Mbytes) and then perform operations based on the content. How to perform efficient backpressuring by leveraging NodeJS streams

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Fault Tolerance for Microservices

What is it, why you should care, and how to apply it using Quarkus.

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Human Aspects of Working as a Software Engineer

A small collection of cases that frequently occur when working in the field of Software.We are Software Engineers. We pride ourselves to write the most concise code, to create good architectural designs. We tend to believe that our professional life is full of code, debugging, drawings in whiteboards, and

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Using three of the top NodeJS Web REST API Frameworks

Javascript is full of options. And over the years, I have found myself running through the same problems over and over again and solving them each time using a slightly improved method over the last one. In this post, I am sharing my experience with a set of the most popular NodeJS frameworks.

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Do you need a Computer Science Degree?

Yes, but not just for the obvious reasons.As Software Development is becoming more accessible through internet media, I see more and more places on the Internet with people asking, “Do I really need a Software Engineering (or Computer Science) Degree in order to get a job in the Industry?

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Microservices: Have you thought this through?

Regardless of the traction that microservices architectures have, there are technical areas and essential matters that you should take into consideration before developing in a microservices structure.

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Goodbye iOS... Hello Web development

The last year has been one hell of a year for me. After eight years of full-time iOS development and 11 years of developing for Apple devices, I decided to move on to something new that I have wanted for longer than I was willing to admit. A quick recap

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Speed up NodeJS server-side development with Webpack 4 + HMR.

When webpack 4.0 came out, I decided to migrate my codebase implementing webpack for the frontend to webpack 4.0. One thing I hadn’t invested time to do however, is to enable HMR in my backend code. I have a project that takes approx 30 seconds to start

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A Showcase of Ambient Intelligence appliances

It’s been a while since my last blog post. Those were some very busy months. One of the highlight of those months, was work done for Atcom NEXT, a yearly event where we get to show the future of technology put some of our ideas into practice, and create

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Country border highlighting with Leaflet.js

Not too long ago, I finished a project on Big Data for the University. One part of this vast project was implementing a dynamics map responsive to mouse hover and mouse click. When the mouse would hover over a country, the whole country borders would be highlighted in the map,

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Xcode and iOS 5: Bringing back backtrace symbols

If you have downloaded iOS 5, you will have aundoubtedly noticed that there is something important missing about the new SDK: the stack trace printed from each exception. You now see hexadecimal representations of symbols where you previewsly saw full human-readable symbols. Apple is undergoing changes in the low-level foundation