Steve Kamerman

My name is Steve Kamerman. Im an entrepreneurial tech geek. I have spent almost every day since sometime in 1995 advancing my knowledge in computer software & hardware, physics, business and philosophy. I live in the Washington DC area with my wife Stefanie Kamerman and our two kids (plus a variety of other mammals). I am currently the COO and co-f... ounder of ScientiaMobile and spend most of my time solving complex problems. I try to spend an hour a day reading something substantive. I tend to tackle one or two subjects at a time, spending enough time consuming quality content to get a conversational knowledge of the subject. This iteration of my site, for example, was my deep-dive into the JAMstack . Below is a list of my current and past subjects of fascination, with something meaningful that Ive gleaned from them. Ive learned many languages to a proficient and professional level, but Golang is my new favorite. It was created to be straightforward, easy to write and very fast. Concurrent processing is a first-class citizen in Go, and thread-safety is embedded in virtually all of the default implementations of global packages, so it is really, really easy to implement true parallel-processing algorithms. I spend a lot of time working with huge amounts of data (billions of HTTP requests, millions of images, etc), and when I am not able to use a more well-suited tool (Hive, Hadoop Map/Reduce, Spark, Athena, Elasticsearch, InfluxDB), I increasingly find Go to be the best tool in the box. I learned Go by porting the Javascript-based WURFL.js mobile device intelligence system over from PHP. It was a refreshing language to work in. The idiomatic way to write Go leaves code structures very flat and without much abstract scaffolding, which is a welcomed change, especially for microservices. Our greatest challenge today is effective communications. The world has become incredibly connected and internet access is both ubiquitous and instantaneous. The sum of human knowledge is literally at our fingertips, and yet we ...Read More