Really excited to be AWS Solutions Architect Professional certified to round up 2021! Having done the GCP-PCA certification earlier this year, the AWS SAP exam in comparison brings exam intensity to another level. With 75 mostly long questions to go through in 3hours, I answered the last question right before…

Woohoo! Super excited to be certified as a GCP — Professional Cloud Architect! Personally I find this one of the tougher certifications I had been through. I took up the whole 2 hours to finish doing 50 questions and manage to check through only some of my answers. The questions…

Following up with my journey to learn by doing, I am exploring REST API calls with Python. So I was thinking of building something I can use in my daily life. An app that will allow me to sleep peacefully on a long bus ride! App Concept To track my journey and…

Book Review 2020 – In my own words : How to talk to absolutely Anyone Content Summary The book first addresses the things that might hinder you from talking. It then move on into topics on how to start, grow and shape conversations to make use of conversations to your advantage. Personal thoughts I think this book offer useful tips in trying to speak up. It brought up rightly the things (one key one for me is fear of being judged) that I felt that has stopped me in talking to or engaging people more. And it definitely inspired me to just let myself go and just start talking.

Tuples tuple = (element1, element2,…) an immutable ordered collection / grouping of items advantages of using tuples: faster than list, safer tuples can be used as dictionary key, example coordinates as key (x, y). List cannot be used as dict key for <item> in <tuple>: loop through the tuple tuple[<index>]…

Loops Iterables: a collection that you can loop through Item: the current item being processed. range(x,y): goes through items from x to y-1. range(y): goes through items from 0 to y-1 range(x,y,z): z indicates the step, z can be negative to do a negative step for x in “string”: iterate…

Universal development examples Phone Gap (HTML/CSS/JS) Xamarin (C#) Appcellator Titanium (JS) Do you need an app? mobile responsive app might be a cheaper alternative if you do not need the features to interact with the app. Walking through the xcode environment template: usually single view app (simplest and other things…

WHY? Allows easy installation of software What? Docker is an ecosystem/platform around creating & running containers. image: single file with all dependencies and configs to run a program container: single instance of an image Docker client/CLI: a tool for issuing commands/interaction with docker server. Docker server/daemon: tool for creating images/running…

What is it? It stands for command query responsibility segregation/event sourcing. It is useful for situations/parts of the system where auditing is important or critical parts of the system. Event Sourcing State Based Persistence captures the current state which will not be sufficient if you need to look at past…