Diego Pacheco Tech blog

All companies want to innovate currently today not everyone can actually. There are several bottlenecks for innovation. The technology it's often part of the problem and part of the solution. Software architect there is a crucial role in enabling solutions that not only scale and are available but also that make the difference. Many companies have monoliths or have several monolith systems and they are having trouble to keep up with the market pace of innovation. The cloud seems to be the right place to go. However, if we don't think how to do it we could be trapped in a problem bigger than we think. Currently, Microservices become a de-facto standard of architecture for several problems however in order to get more benefit from micro services we need do some mindset shifts. I'm not talking about basic shifts such as Independence and Isolation .

Unfortunately, FP is a religious suggest for a lot of people. I jumped on the FP Religious bandwagon for awhile back into 2012. Today I consider myself more practical rather than just "pure" in regards of FP. To be 100% clear my goal is not to be controversial or create any kind of flamewar. I feel free to disagree with me. The fact is I like Scala a lot and is very hard to talk about java 8 without talking about Scala. IMHO Java 8 got some good influence from Scala. IMHO I don't think Java 8 is a drug to get into Haskell :-). Java 8 got some sort of FP influence, Thanks to Scala I would say. I suppose to deliver a talk about functional and reactive programming with Java 8, 2 years ago and I found this slide deck in my machine so I thought about making a video presenting some of the functional programming principles with Java 8 including frameworks such as RxJava. So this is a ~40 minutes video - I hope you guys enjoy and have fun.

Go is a simple, fast and powerful programing language. Go is growing a lot into the DevOps Engineering scene like Hashicorp Stack or even Kubernetes .  One of the main advantages of GO is the fact that you can generate a single binary with all you needed, bundled in a single file. This makes distribution so much easier. Go is also very compact for some use cases and you can write so less code and still very very efficient and get best of performance.  Today we will see how to create a very, very, very simple service in go. This service will access redis to increment how many times it was called.  We will use Minikube in order to run kubernetes locally and we will store our data in Redis.