Correlating logs on ElasticSearch using Kibana is usually pretty easy. In Distributed Systems, if System Y performs a request to System X, you can use attributes like transaction_id, trace_id and span_id to navigate all logs belonging to a particular trace, and vice-versa. But sometimes you have systems interacting which have…

I’ve always considered programming challenges a fun way of experimenting new languages. For this edition of advent of code (2020), i decided i would give Rust a try. Rust really makes your head spin a bit with supposedly trivial problems (and this is a good thing!). This is mainly because programming in Rust requires you to think differently. Replicating patterns that are…

Today i want to talk a bit about an important project: TACO. TACO, which stands for Trash Annotations in Context, and it is an open image dataset for litter detection, similar to COCO object segmentation. Started by the idealist computer-vision researcher Pedro Proença (with myself as contributor), it contains photos of litter taken under diverse environments, from tropical beaches to London streets…

Every developer needs a fast way to search for a current word in multiple files. As a vim user the way i used to do it would be in the form of :Ack! < word > < directory_where_i_want_to_search > . Surely there must be a better way! That way was presented to me by my vim partner in crime, Mr João Seabra. He wrote a…