Loading...

Blog

A Journey of a Thousand Miles Begins with a Single Step

Working with Arrays in Linux Shell

One necessity is dealing with Arrays as a data structure in any language or interpreter. The Linux Documentation Project has lots of documentation but lacks IMHO concise and straightforward examples. I created this example, as recently I have struggled myself how to operate on arrays. I spice it up with some ASCII art from asky.io (♥_♥).

Read more

Manage multi-container setups with Docker Compose

Compose is a tool for defining and running multi-container Docker applications. With Compose, you define the services that need to run in a YAML file. Then bring up the services by using the docker-compose command.

Read more

Use Kibana heat maps for Crime Mapping

In my last articles, I have introduced the foundations for storing geospatial information in Elasticsearch. For various use cases, Kibana and the Elasticsearch Query DSL offer powerful features to solve specific problems.

Read more

Support medical cases with the Elastic Stack

In my previous article, I have introduced one of the geospatial capabilities of Elasticsearch. In this article, we continue with geo-distance analysis and geo-coverage in the area of Health in Switzerland.

Read more

Geospatial Information with the Elastic Stack

The Elastic Stack is an open source foundation that offers data solutions from any source and any format. Digitalisation is just the start of exciting data exploration. We start our journey with geospatial information.

Read more

Thanks. Danke. Merci. Grazie.

By the end of September 2018, my last day of work for a payment service processor ended. It was a tough decision to leave behind a great team and safe environment to face a new challenge. The chance to work with cutting-edge technologies and products convince me to take the opportunity. I leave with love and respect for the past years. I think the best occasion to part ways if there is nothing left to remove for a working solution.

Read more

Check connections for a Docker container

Docker has its strength by isolating applications through containers. Each container has its namespace and a network subsystem. Starting with Docker containers there is a different approach to check connections for your running application.

Read more

Grep your JSON data with gron

Do you ever need to find specific information in a large JSON data output? Most of us end up using grep in the Linux console. There is another way to read structured JSON data. The solution is gron by Tom Hudson, and its goal is to make JSON greppable.

Read more

Unzip into separate folder

Just bought terrific music from Bandcamp and downloaded the FLAC archives. Now I needed to extract them in the terminal console and run into little problems.

Read more