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 Outdated curriculums, a rigid admissions system, and a lack…2 min read·Feb 1, 2024----
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…9 min read·Jan 17, 2021--1--1
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…13 min read·Mar 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…2 min read·Nov 10, 2019--1--1
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…4 min read·Apr 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Mark PapadakisA practical and interesting application of events processingThis blog post is slightly out of date; another overseer-service has been added since so that there is a separate service that matches…6 min read·Aug 17, 2018----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…4 min read·Mar 17, 2018--1--1
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…3 min read·Dec 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…6 min read·Sep 29, 2017--3--3
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)…3 min read·Sep 28, 2017----