Raphael De Lio

May 16

Navigating Life Through Acceptance, Joy, and Enthusiasm

In the hustle and bustle of modern life, we often find ourselves caught up in a whirlwind of events and emotions. This relentless surge of experiences can leave us feeling disoriented, overwhelmed, and far from inner peace. Amid this chaos, the teachings of Eckhart Tolle in his seminal book “The…

Spirituality

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Navigating Life Through Acceptance, Joy, and Enthusiasm

Spirituality

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May 15

Exceptions in Kotlin: Beyond the try/catch

Most of us have transitioned from Java to Kotlin. As we begin developing with Kotlin, our natural approach is to do things the way we did in Java. We start experimenting: first by trying to avoid nullable types, then playing with data classes and learning about extension functions. …

Kotlin

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Kotlin

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Feb 28

Getting Started with Flutter Map

This story is also available as a YouTube video. Watch it here. A couple of days ago, I had the idea of building an app that would show the translation of an inputted word over each country in their respective languages. I wanted to be able to see how languages…

Flutter

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Flutter

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Feb 8

Understanding Pub/Sub in Redis

This is part of my "Learning Redis Journey", in my previous story I covered Transactions in Redis, don't forget to check it out. This story is also available as a YouTube video. Check it out here! Besides being a database, Redis is also a message broker that supports typical pub/sub…

Redis

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Redis

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Jan 31

Getting Started With Unit Tests In Python — Part 2: unittest module

This is part of my learning journey as I dive deep into Python development. If you missed the first part, where I explain the fundamentals of unit testing, make sure you check it out by clicking here. Summary Introduction Getting Started & Conventions Skipping Tests Fixtures Assertion Methods Introduction The unittest is…

Python

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Python

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Jan 27

Getting Started With Unit Tests in Python — Part 1: Fundamentals

This is part of my learning journey as I dive deep into Python development. In this article, we will dive into the world of unit testing. …

Python

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Python

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Jan 16

Understanding Transactions in Redis (Getting Started)

This content is also available as a YouTube video. You can watch it here. Redis is an in-memory database that is widely used for caching, real-time analytics, and message brokering. One of the key features of Redis is its support for transactions, which allows you to execute a series of…

Redis

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Redis

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Jan 14

How Publishing Under a Custom Domain on Medium Impacted My Views

In August of 2022, I was achieving a satisfactory level of views on my Medium page, averaging approximately 4500 views per month, which is not bad at all. However, in September of that year, I made the decision to purchase a personal domain, raphaeldelio.com, …

Custom Domain

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Custom Domain

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Sep 21, 2022

Redis OM Spring is 10x faster — How I contributed to this open source repository maintained by Redis

It all started with my attendance at Brian Sam-Bodden’s presentation at Spring IO 2022, which rose a great curiosity about how powerful Redis could be as a primary database. …

Redis

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Redis

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Sep 11, 2022

Seven soft skills most immigrants are likely to have

Employers are constantly talking about soft skills. Have you ever stopped to think about what soft skills you can expect most immigrants to have? This story is also available as a YouTube channel. You can check it out here. Being an immigrant is never easy, and being an immigrant myself…

Immigration

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Seven soft skills most immigrants are likely to have

Immigration

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