My journey started with an Alfonso bored, but excited to learn new things even if they were completely new for him. Can't remember the exact month or day, but all started on summer of the year 2014. I was playing on a Minecraft server and I really wanted to do something new, in that time you were able to create "plugins" for a server and while there was documentation to do so most tutorials didn't cover the advanced stuff (usually just the how to's on creating commands and basic stuff) So I bought a Java book, at first I didn't get a lot of the concepts, I was in middle-school and as far I knew nobody had knowledge about programming things so there was no one to ask for help. I read that book twice, doing the exercises and I still didn't feel prepared until one day I woke up and I felt like programming something new from the ground up. I did a basic GUI program to add books to a database and manage a collection of books. Nothing too fancy but I was proud of my achievement. Then a did a few Minecraft stuff like minigames and gadgets, i was like a rockstar because not so many people in the spanish/latin community knew how to do custom plugins for Minecraft servers. Few years later i learned JavaScript and how to do websites, now i do mostly backend stuff with Node.JS and TypeScript, and while i'm not an expert i keep learning something new everyday from sites like Hashnode or the Dev community. I love how most people on sites like this one are helpful and willing to help. Was a hard journey? Yes, I thought about throwing the towel a few times. But I'm glad I keep learning and this choice has allowed me to do a lot of things and feel good with myself. Now I'm doing community stuff, teaching people on my surroundings on how to start coding and trying to make people to believe on themselves with lots of activities and effort.

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I used to think that NodeJS and MongoDB where developed by the same people (because i used to read lot of articles showing how easy is to create an app using that combo). I learned a little bit about MongoDB but the requirements of the project i was doing at that time required me to use a relational database. So i think it really depends on what do you need. Remember to always analyze the problem in paper before writing the actual code, you will save yourself a lot of time by choosing the correct database type for your next backend. As for now i usually use MariaDB with TypeORM, but again, if the project can use MongoDB i could use it because i really appreciate the flexibility of using a document based database :)

Rust Tensorflow GraphQL still need to master typescript before i make the jump to another languages or tech

Hi, it's me Alfonso 😄 This year with my team i started developing a complete system to implement IoT in hotels (backend, hardware using opensource tech, mobile apps), it started as a school project (i'm in 5th semester in systems engineering) and it got 1st place in a competition about innovation and business applications. Got a lot of attention and we even got invited to 2 medium sized corporations in Mexico city that work with IoT for home automation. I'm very happy about all the results and the fact that i started from developing plugins for a Minecraft server, to create software that powers electronics and mobile apps makes me wish i had started earlier, but i'm still very happy about all the progress i've made as a person and also professionally. We hope to launch next year our product, we've already made a local test in one hotel of our city and so far the feedback has been great, we offer things like automation, improved security, energy savings and a better way to know the city with a tourism section integrated in the app. And this is my most awesome achievement so far, i hope is not the last one