Mark PapadakisThe Case for Private Universities in Greece: Breaking the Cycle of Stagnation.The current state of higher education in Greece is a cause for serious concern. Outdated curriculums, a rigid admissions system, and a lack…Feb 1Feb 1
Mark PapadakisIntroducing Cirdan, an embeddable data warehouseCirdan is an embeddable “data warehouse”. By embeddable, I mean it is a library that can be linked against a program to use the…Jan 17, 20211Jan 17, 20211
Mark PapadakisBuilding High-Performance Services in 2020I ‘ve been working on a new service/product for our companies(Phaistos Networks and BestPrice), one that incorporates “new” technologies…Mar 22, 2020Mar 22, 2020
Mark PapadakisTANK 2 Initial Public ReleaseNot long after TANK was open-sourced, work began on a new major TANK release that would incorporate ideas, feedback, wants and needs from…Nov 10, 20191Nov 10, 20191
Mark PapadakisHow to Prevent Burnout and how to Recover from itI have written about burnout before. It is a very nasty problem and I, like many others, have suffered from it — but I think I figured out…Apr 21, 2019Apr 21, 2019
Mark PapadakisA practical and interesting application of events processingThis blog post is slightly out of date; another overseer-service has been added since so that there is a separate service that matches…Aug 17, 2018Aug 17, 2018
Mark PapadakisIntroducing Phaistos KMS; GDPR and Encryption requirementsGDPR is going to effect on May 25th. Depending on who you are and what you do, this may be wonderful news for you, or a reason for concern…Mar 17, 20181Mar 17, 20181
Mark PapadakisChristmas Entertainment : Films and Video GamesIt’s Christmas, and every year around the holidays, many of us watch again special movies that channel the mood of the holiday season, and…Dec 23, 2017Dec 23, 2017
Mark PapadakisInteresting CodebasesI love studying codebases, and when I come across beautiful designs, or novel ideas/algorithms, it feels a lot like I exploring a cave and…Sep 29, 20173Sep 29, 20173
Mark PapadakisTrinity Updates and integer codes benchmarksTrinity got quite a few updates recently. From performance improvements to new APIs and new features(check out the percolator query)…Sep 28, 2017Sep 28, 2017
