Gonzalo's thoughts

I’m sick and tired of reading articles describing how the banks are going to buy the new players in Fintech.

So you are using AWS Elastic Load Balancer in front of a set of Apache httpd servers and you’ve discovered that your Apache logs are full of garbage.

Today I was reading this article about excuses from banks for crap services.

Yesterday I was using my bank account, taking money out using a debit card.

Today I went to AWSSummit London.

When I was child, I used to play chess.

Around the year 2000, I was doing some consulting work for the ISP branch of a Spanish bank.

In the last couple of months I’ve been able to see a growing trend with Snapchat.

I’m fascinated by AlphaGo.

7 am in the morning.

There is some outrage in Twitter because it has started to implement some changes to its product.

“Thou shall not pass” “docker exec, lets install wireshark”This is my account of some experiences deploying docker (or should I say messing/faffing with docker).

A few days ago I was listening a podcast about the importance of being able to tell a story, not a lists of jobs when asked about you.

Platform stats for the UKWe’re recruiting a Product Manager for our team, and this week we’ve been doing some interviews.

Scala, for those who haven’t heard about it, is a programming language.

Broken Kindle anyone?

A friend of mine sent to me a job offer.

I was considering about buying one or two Amazon Fire, when I discovered they’re unlikely to come before Christmas.

Black Friday is next Friday, so that means Christmas is coming.

A few years ago, I was leading a small team in charge of developers’ tools and framework.

Last Thursday I went to a Microservices’ users group meeting.

Cup cake or fairy cake.

Dear recruiter.

A couple of weeks ago, I had an interesting discussion in Twitter about how a Spanish Government body (AEAT, the equivalent of HRMC in the UK or IRS in the US) was offering different “services” in two different websites.

React native is a way to build iOS applications using Javascript.

A few weeks ago, I’m not sure why, one of my daughters proposed to create a system to find cars inside garages at the shopping center.

A year ago I vaguely new something about Scala.

In March 2014 I was made redundant (business unit closing).

I was a Spanish Civil Servant from 2006 to 2012 (technically I’m still a Spanish Civil Servant on leave).

There are good recruiters.

From 2008 to 2012, I was the project manager of a project with very special users.

More than six years ago I started this blog.

Happy Christmas and a wonderful 2015 to all of my readers.

A few weeks ago, I bid and won a PowerEdge 2650 server for three quids (plus another 6 of renting a car and collecting it).

It is not easy to explain what is agile or the need of agile practices in software development.

Lately I’ve had three different issues with Jetty.

A couple of months ago I started working for a different company.

A few months ago, I upgraded the firmware for my Sony Xperia U.

I have an old Dell Vostro 1720 and an Acer Aspire One AO110.

I was made redundant at the end of March.

Small and uninteresting post.

Today I wanted to talk about two acquisitions.

A few days ago I went to a meeting and we were discussing (among lots of different topics) various optimizing mechanisms for a web application.

I’m happy.

… but it wasn’t.

Yesterday I followed on Twitter a case where the community manager for a -well known and with very good reputation- Spanish moving company literally screwed up their reputation.

A few days ago I went to an interview which included a pair programming session.

Since I came to London, more than a year ago, I’ve been travelling a lot back to Spain.

[Long post] Edited (08th-Jun-2014): Updated the firmware download site.

About a year ago I received some wonderful presents from a group of friends :D.