When you start reading lots of VC tweets and blog posts is easy to get confused by the deluge of acronyms they use. The following are the basic definitions for the most important acronyms. CAC = Customer acquisition cost TAC = Total acquisition cost LTV= Lifetime value TAM = Total available market YoY growth =… Read More »
Systemd doesn’t completely control whether core dumps are made or not. It mainly determine where such dumps go, and whether they should take up space or not. It may prevent some user space core dumps, but not all. With “Storage=none”, they can still occur and are registered by journald, but they don’t take up disk… Read More »
Dear Reader, I am coming back to the topic that hooked me on the blogging activity – the MIND, slowly becoming a new habit. Today is the first day of a new month and I have seen many media posts that share thoughts on the first day of a new month. Now, I also wish… Read More »
Looking around microservice communication protocols I discovered protocol buffers and gRPC as a new alternative to REST with XML or JSON. XML is used in standards like ISO 20022 for financial messages, JSON is widely used by all the new APIs in fintech (Stripe, TransferWise, lots of PSD2 API implementation of banks etc.) Both of… Read More »
As a new found collector of challenger bank accounts the new #fintech Curve (@imaginecurve) it was an obvious must have. When I heard about this “magic” proxy card, one card to hold all your other cards, I was in awe. How natural and simple idea that fit my case perfectly. Due to the new found… Read More »
In all this talk of distributed systems the Interplanetary File System is a fun practical subject. Obviously golang should be part of that. According to Wikipedia: The InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) is a protocol and peer-to-peer network for storing and sharing data in a distributed file system. IPFS uses content-addressing to uniquely identify each file… Read More »
This is a straight forward list of steps to connect to github with a ssh key instead of user/password. I am using Linux on my development machine so things are quite easy with ssh. STEP 1: Create a ssh key # ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 -C “george@voina.org” STEP2: Add the key to the authentication… Read More »
Dear Reader, continuing the idea of the last post, you can find the characteristics of the other three learning styles developed by Honey and Mumford, based on Kolb’s theory in the following paragraphs. Activists You are an activist if you actually learn something by doing, by putting into practice. In other words, activists get their… Read More »
Like a true Star Trek fan I have my lists: this is one of most complete compilation of the “Ferengi Rules of Acquisition”. I swear they apply in the real Business World, almost to the letter 🙂 Sadly we can see behaviours that follow the rules also in #Fintech, Banking and Social Media companies. So… Read More »
Today, I am presenting you the theorist learning style. This is my dominant learning style. I was surprised to learn a lot about myself when I did the test and discovered the features of this style. Of course, it is not all or nothing. If I/you have a dominant learning style, it does not mean… Read More »