The 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 Outdated curriculums, a rigid admissions system, and a lack…Feb 1, 2024Feb 1, 2024
Introducing 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, 2021A response icon1Jan 17, 2021A response icon1
Building 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
TANK 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, 2019A response icon1Nov 10, 2019A response icon1
How 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
A practical and interesting application of events processingThis blog post is slightly out of date; another overseer-service has been added since so that there is a separate service that matches…Aug 17, 2018Aug 17, 2018
Introducing 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, 2018A response icon1Mar 17, 2018A response icon1
Christmas 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
Interesting 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, 2017A response icon4Sep 29, 2017A response icon4
Trinity 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
