Moments of change, moments of evolution, a constant in my life, with the 25th anniversary of the creation of the web I’ve entered “review” mode and I’m highly perplexed.

I’ve been doing things for the same time (25 years), enjoying, always with the same concept and particularity: Enjoyment and result, but it hasn’t been relevant for a long time (which is also not very relevant).

I’ve realized that the usual thing is to do things within your comfort zone, and I’ve never had one or knew one could exist, hence I’ve touched and done unusual things or perhaps “untimely”, when a certain technology could be in fashion “Buzz” I hadn’t been using it for a long time because it didn’t give me what something else gave me,…

Laravel, in addition to using multiple third-party packages, is also possible to use parts as components. All components are under the “Illuminate” namespace.

If there’s a really interesting and useful class, it’s Collection, which allows us to work with data arrays in a simple and “programmatic” way.

To have this class in our project, we only need the illuminate/support package which we can install with:

composer require illuminate/support:5.2.x-dev

To show some examples, we’ll use a small array with this data:

I wouldn’t know where to start but I do know how to end this reflection, and it’s so simple that it would be summarized in two phrases, “It’s not a country for programmers” and “Being mediocre is more relaxing and will bring you more”.

When one has been developing for more than 20 years and has always filled their mouth saying that they have enjoyed, enjoy and will enjoy programming, in the strangest or most common languages, with the most peculiar and strange technologies, the most cutting-edge and the most “old-fashioned”, but each one in its moment and only for the most (as much as possible) precise implementation, one should better keep quiet.

In these last few days, we’ve had many news items, articles, information in the development and technology world, these are the most relevant for me:

• Google announces a new Machine Learning service in the cloud

• NPM & left-pad: Have We Forgotten How To Program?: The Kik case - left-pad from NPM and the critical fall to “I’ll do this with a third-party module/plugin/package/class”

• The Kik case - left-pad from NPM and the fall in (official) or how the most insignificant dependencies can really leave us stranded.

At Sevilla Developers Conf 2 I commented on some examples of who uses Go and for what.

Among others, these seemed interesting to me, and I’ll create a somewhat larger list that will serve us to see real use cases and success stories when choosing Go for certain solutions.

From Cayley we can make queries via REST in two “languages”: MQL and a reduced version of Gremlin

With the following example, we can obtain the most common skills of people who belong to an industry, within the “Edu” sector

I’ve started to see what I’ve been touching lately, and not surprisingly, it’s… simply “eccentric”, in the sum of elements but not in the use of each one.

Text Editor: Sublime Text, Atom I can’t get used to it (largely due to its complicated integration with Go and Gb), and the same applies to atom for PHPStorm. In the terminal, my header editor is Joe and this has an explanation: my first text editor was WordStar and I’m a nostalgic.

Except for gorename …

[https://medium.com/@mandrigin/golang-8-insights-of-the-first-weeks-of-the-real-usage-f01290811b8b](Golang: 8 insights from the first weeks of the real usage)

I’ve always liked to see and try different technologies, and within these, of course, programming languages.

An example of this was the intensive use I gave at the time, at Arrakis, to Rebol, an interpreted cross-platform language, with everything you could need to perform great data cleaning scripts, in a “strange” syntax, but beautiful in its approach.

The case of Go was a bit different, because just like what happened to me with Angular, at the time (several years ago) I tried to give it a chance, but all the information and examples I found were “very small” blocks of code, I didn’t see in that (at a bird’s eye view) that it was finished, it seemed like a more academic/conceptual language than something for real use.

The first one is the very simple, but not limited, Go interface system.

How to use interfaces in Go

The second, no less important, making it clear and showing C# vs Go code.

Statements are statements, and expressions are expressions (in Go)

As always, we’ll need some debugging:

Scheduler Tracing In Go

A project, green, but promising, for (among other things) distributed execution:

hyflow-go: A geo-replicated, main-memory, highly consistent datastore

Every day we hear about Big Data, IoT, Smart Data, Machine Learning, semantic data, etc. Many times out of context or simply used because they’re “trendy”.

One of the best examples is “Big Data”, where we always talk about huge amounts of information, systems, platforms, queries, but with the error, from my point of view, of taking that as information, no, no it’s not information, they’re data, raw data or processed data, information is what is extracted from that data. Many times, with the term “Big Data”, we get lost in only the part of storing huge amounts of data, replicated and in astronomical volumes. That’s not “Big Data”, that’s only talking about one part, the most mechanical one, and the one that contributes least to what we’re looking for “Information”, it’s only “data storage and management”, one leg of a much broader table.

As a proof of concept, I’m making a small API in Golang that, on an Apache with mod_proxy, serves certain content to a WordPress site.