Day 4 — Camp Cleanup challenge is all about dealing with intervals. Intervals are trickier and more complex than one might think. No surprise the organizer of the Advent Of Code, included them in their challenges. I did a lot of research on intervals, and specifically time intervals in the…

The second challenge of the Advent of Code 2022 is pretty straightforward with SQL. In summary the task is to use some starting values and transform those into a numeric value using a lookup table, and then calculate the sum of all the values you get. …

The first challenge of the Advent of Code 2022 is out, and this year I decided to try to solve the proposed challenges only using T-SQL. I also want to share the solutions here, as I think they will provide a great learning experience for those who are new to…

Apply event-driven architectures to the database too — Event-Driven and reactive architectures (see the “Reactive Manifesto” if you’re new to the topic or interested to learn more about it) are extremely popular today. Events — and thus data — are pushed to services so that integration can happen faster and more efficiently. With Azure SQL database it is…

Fullstack and Jamstack architectures are common nowadays, but they can be quite intimidating if you are just getting started in the web development space. So many concepts, technologies and patterns to grasp. And so many alternatives! Well, thanks to @glaucia86 you now have a *full series* on the top-notch technologies…

Just six steps to get the job done — There are many ways in which an Azure SQL database can be created, and if you are new to the development all those different options can be quite intimidating. Let me show you, in just a few steps, how easy it is instead. …

Fine tuning of $PATH makes life easier — Lately I’ve been working with Python and Node both on Windows on WSL (WSL2 specifically) and I noticed a certain number of inconveniences with WSL when having Python and Node installed on both systems. For example, some node packages were found when running node on WSL, even if I never…

Yeah, you’re not dreaming! — I’m pretty sure that at some point of your developer career you have wished — dreamed! — to have something that could turn your database tables exposed as a REST or GraphQL endpoint, automatically, just by expressing that intention (maybe via a configuration file or some other conventions). Such a…

Well, look no further, you have found the article with the final answer (at least to me). — What’s the role of a Program Manager in an enterprise like Microsoft? We get this question many times. Luckly a friend of mine, Matthew Roche, recorded a video where he explains in detail, and IMHO in the best way possible, what a PM is and does in Microsoft. So, if…