Israel's Blog

Returning to tabletop roleplaying games felt familiar in an unexpected way.

If life was a book, every change would be a new chapter, I wrote already about the chapter I closed a few weeks ago, now I want to tell you about the one that I started writing.

HTTP status codes are one of the most powerful communication tools available in an API.

I do not know if I am getting too old or if it just took too long to hit me, but your career, and sometimes your life, often depends entirely on third parties.

Last year marked the final season of a Netflix series I loved: Stranger Things.

Public service should be a vocation, a temporary chapter where you bring outside skills, professional independence, and an independent livelihood to the table.

Every day we are bombarded with petabytes of information.

If you haven't been following my blog and just stumbled upon this post, this is the 6th article on my series about designing REST APIs, you can read the rest here.

When people talk about REST, they often focus on surface level characteristics: URLs that look clean, JSON payloads, and HTTP verbs used “correctly”.

A few years ago I wrote a blog post titled “My take on microservices”.

This past week, as the mythical May 4th approached us, I was chatting about Star Wars with one of those lifelong friends you talk to from time to time but the bond feels as if we were still living next to each other.

When a chapter finishes, another one starts.

The two, often cited, most difficult things in Computer Science are cache invalidation and naming things.

As a Venezuelan living abroad, there are dates on the calendar that carry weight long after they pass.

Resources do not come from databases, frameworks, or other existing ways of modeling data.