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When you want to build an IT product, often you need a storage layer. The most common approach is to resort to SQL or NoSQL relational databases. But, are there other alternatives?

In the last post I talked about my experience testing Copilot for a week. In this one we are going to implement a data structure, an LRUCache, using AI assistants to see how it works.

These past months I have been using ChatGPT in my day to day as a software engineer but, what about tools like GitHub Copilot? This week I've been testing it to tell you about my experience developing with an AI assistant.

Learn how to install and configure Ubuntu Server on your Raspberry Pi to build a homelab, deploy your projects or just learn. I tell you everything you need and a step by step.

As there are more and more distractions, as well as so many things to do, I am starting to use different techniques to have more focus and progress on my goals. One of the tools that helps me the most is the pomodoro, as it is very easy to get distracted or procrastinate instead of doing your homework.

Writing a queuing system does not have to involve using complex software or writing hundreds of lines of code. In this post I want to explain how using a simple MySQL table and a terminal you can make a queuing system, which you can then implement in any language.

The new language models such as Phi3 for me are a revolution because being much smaller has several advantages: they are faster, therefore cheaper, and you can run them on virtually any platform.

Today I discovered that MySQL has a data type which is an ENUM. It allows you to define up to 2^16 or 65536 different values. The peculiarity is that you can define a set of values such as “status” => “pending”, “wip”, “done”, and MySQL itself converts them into values 1, 2, 3... Important: the values start at 1 and not 0. Note that it can have either a DEFAULT value or it can be NULL and in this case, if it is not defined, the field value will be NULL.

Looking for the best tool to create presentations, I'll tell you why I chose Reveal.js over other tools like PowerPoint.