Linux: a quick way to find swap usage of processes

Recently i had to deal with a swap usage issue, and i need a fast way to find out top swap consumer processes, a simple one-liner is this

j2cli — Templating Shell Scripts

j2cli is a simple but awesome tool that provides an easy way to template shell scripts, it uses jinja2 as a templating engine

How to remove ‘Unknown Locale (qaa-Latn)’ from windows

This tend to happen after windows update, the problem is that you cannot delete it from language preferences because is not listed there in…

Bash — parallel command execution

There are three ways to execute commands in parallel using bash

influxdb: How To Compact your Database files

If your series are created or deleted very often it might be necessary to compact the series files in order to reduce their size on disk…

learn regular expressions the easy way

Regular expressions is a sequence of characters that specify a search pattern, regexes are super useful and can help you in administration…

lftp: file tranfers with a very smart tool!

lftp is a very nice tool that can simplify file transfer operations that would be complicate to do with shell scripting

Luigi blueprint: Create ETL flows without code

Luigi blueprint: Create ETL flows without code! Join Medium with my referral link - Konstantinos PatronasAs a Medium member, a portion of your membership fee goes to writers you read, and you get full access to every story…

AWS: How to install and configure awscli

awscli is a Python command line tool that allows us to manage various AWS services, first we need to install awscli, to do this run

Python: GUI programming with Tkinter

Tkinter is the Python standard library for GUI applications, Tk is a very good choice to create GUI apps for Python because: