Marco Pegoraro

my story

The Danish Doctor

This is how I got my AFib diagnosis in Denmark thanks to my company's private healthcare insurance. Part of the series: A Country's Race to Diagnose.

my story

The Swedish Struggle

Sweden is the country I live in. I sought help here but I received nothing so far. Here is my testify to a nightmarish healthcare experience.

my story

The Italian Job

This is how I got my AFib diagnosis in Italy. Part of the series: A Country's Race to Diagnose.

my story

It’s all about my Lucky Star

Sometimes, it's just too easy to give in to sadness and anger. But it is also possible to look at the bright side, as Monty Python used to sing!

my story

More Than a Feeling

This is how I feel when Atrial Fibrillation strikes, and what I'm learning from it.

my story Featured

The Last One

Do you want to live happily ever after? You have to steer clear of sugar and start going to the gym. Said the doctor.

Quotes

The risk I took was calculated...

But man, am I bad at math.

Communication

You Can Learn From Anyone

You never know about the stuff that you don't know, and you never know what another guy knows. So it is better to keep an open mind about it.

Communication

Speak Your Customer's Language

This is part of a series of good lessons that my dad tried to give me when I was young. Of course, I didn't get it for the best part of my life. But it is better late than never, right?

Quotes

Everything not saved will be lost

Nintendo "Quit Screen" message.

postgres

Event Sourcing in Postgres: The Client

How to store different client's reading cursor in PostgreSQL, so to facilitate consuming an event stream by different consumers.

Quotes

Strong people don't put others down

They lift them up - Darth Vader (philantropist)

postgres

Event Sourcing in Postgres: The Events

How to build a basic data model for Event Sourcing in PostgreSQL, and let multiple clients consume one or more topics.

postgres

Event Sourcing in Postgres

How to build an Event Sourcing system using one of the best data-store tools available to humankind: Postgres!

Tips & Tricks

JavaScript: the Good Parts in 2020

This is a personal list of the stuff that I like about JavaScript and that I believe should be used today.

Tutorials

ForrestJS & Fastify Examples

Learn by examples how easy is to build a Fastify based Web Service with ForrestJS and its feature composability.

FetchQ

FetchqCRON

Executing repeatable jobs is at the core of most IT projects. From following up a few days after a user signs up, to repetitive cleaning or caching procedures. FetchqCRON provides time-based execution as a service, on Heroku or on-premise via Docker. FOR FREE.

Tutorials

Hasura in Gitpod

How to run Hasura.io in a GitPod.io workspace

FetchQ

FetchQ - An Introduction

Two years ago, I was working on a web-scraper with my startup Mysocial.io and we needed to distribute work across multiple servers while achieving uniqueness in the system. We were handling hundreds of millions of tasks and FetchQ is the result of that effort.

Tutorials

How to integrate Hasura with Auth0

Step by step guide on how to use Auth0 with Hasura in a Single Page App bootstrapped with Create React App.

postgres

Setup a Free PostgreSQL Database

Do you want to learn Postgres? Today you can spin up your database completely for FREE and start experimenting with one of the best database tools ever.

Tips & Tricks

Online IDEs for Learning how to Code

This is the best possible time to become a developer. Follow me and learn how to use FREE ONLINE RESOURCES to build a full-stack app that persists data in Postgres, exposes REST APIs with Fastify, and a sleek frontend with React and Ionic Framework.

tools

Gitbook Plugins

Last weekend I've been working on some plugins for GitBook. Here is the list!

postgres

Per-User Encryption with Postgres

In this article you learn how to apply per-user encryption to the data you store in Postgres. It is quite easy and it will allow you to guarantee the highest level of security and privacy to your users.

ForrestJS

Hooks - A truly modular NodeJS App

How to create a truly modular NodeJS App where your business values are organized in features and all the necessary infrastructure comes from NPM modules.