The following is one of my favorite Kotlinic patterns: Using sealed classes to enumerate all possible return value groups of an API. This allows consumers to then easily act on different layers and manage the response there however they see fit. This is not a uniquely Kotlinic pattern, in fact…

Tom Callaway’s tweet (below)about sharing an Open Source story inspired me to write down this adventure, that happened to me a few years ago. Background In 2019, I was a technical student at CERN, working in the BE-ICS-TI section, which translates to “Beams -> Industrial ControlS -> Technical Infrastructure”…

AWS Summit Brussels 2022 is the first post-COVID conference I attended. This document summarizes my insights from the conference! Schedule AWS Summit was a daily event and I attended the following presentations: Practical guide to incident response with NXP AWS Well-Architected Framework for sustainability Keynote Simplify cloud governance with AWS Control…

As a dev by trade, I was recently a bit frustrated with having notifications across multiple channels: The VCS, the project management tool, email and of course Slack. …

I recently wrote the following short piece for my Github profile. I’m also posting it here, because I’d like the Medium folks to have an idea of who is the person (or cat) behind this keyboard. Hi there 👋 Intro I’m Alexandros Papageorgiou Koufidis, a DevOps-focused software developer from Greece, currently…

After 1.5 years at Zivver, I’ve decided to make the move to VanMoof, an e-bike company. If you’d like to find out how my interview process was like, I wrote about it in an article: How I overthought every step of my interview process with VanMoof Every so often, we software engineers find ourselves looking for a new challenge. This was me, back in October 2021 …alkoclick.medium.com One of the most correct decisions I made was to leave not 2, but 6…

Hey folks, Every so often, we software engineers find ourselves looking for a new challenge. This was me, back in October 2021, which is last month, as of writing this. I applied to, and got accepted into a single company: VanMoof (and yes, they’re hiring). This is my story. Let’s…

tl;dr: mkdir -p $HOMEBREW_CELLAR/gcc/11.2.0_3/bin Background I’m currently building a container as a portable dev environment for my dotfiles, and one of the things I installed was Terraform, via Homebrew. I quickly noticed my Docker build times and sizes had immediately skyrocketed by almost 1Gb. Terraform takes about 60Mb, what’s going on? …