Fat Codes

• Arrows, Ducks and Time in NodeJS

  21 Aug 2023

  Some months ago i stumbled upon DuckDB, which is often described as SQLite for analytics. Since i’m a huge fan of everything that does not require its own process managed by me, I immediately recorded DuckDB into the list of things to check out, with maximum priority. Some weeks ago I finally had the time to play with it and I was very impressed. As a quick Proof of concept i decided to try the NodeJS client API, since NodeJS is the runtime powering the majority of our infrastructure, but DuckDB has bindings for a lot of languages, such as Python and Rust.
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• TIPS: Best practices for git issue labels and tags

  30 Jan 2020

  When you are somehow responsible of all the LOCs written at your company, your Gitlab top bar might look like this If you are like me a software engineer, you probably have a lot of issues. Ahem, with issues i obiously mean project related issues, tracking tasks, bugs and whatsoever. In order to oganize a big number of issues across multiple projects (with multiple components) at apio we developed a little system of labels: TIPS
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• CI/CD for NodeJS Microservices with Gitlab

  25 Jul 2019

  At Apio we write a lot of microservices, we have a main platform on which our customers can interact with their IoT fleet, but we also have more vertical platforms like the Smart Lighting one for public lighting or the Smart Industry one for controlling production machines. To handle this amount of microservices we needed to establish some sort of standard path for the whole microservice lifecycle, from design to deployment.
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• Useful Npm Scripts for Nodejs Microservices

  15 Feb 2019

  When a man without a package.json meets a man with a package.json, the man without a package.json wants one. That’s what clint eastwood would say if only he knew about the power of these files! This is not properly a blog post, rather a collection of package.json scripts I’ve been using in the last 3–5 years. Please note that these are microservice oriented scripts, so if you are building / maintainging npm packages such as libraries or frameworks, some of these scripts won’t matter to you.
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• Nodejs Microservices Release Script

  09 Feb 2019

  At Apio, we take “not so smart objects” such as a meter, a switch, or any other kind of device, and we turn it into a super device, able to communicate through internet with our infrastructure and, eventually, join the “March of the Machines” against humanity. Jokes aside, to turn anything like a meter measurement into actionable data (alerts, analytics, commands to other devices) we need to process data in several steps.
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