Github for Coding Interviews
Many paid services exist to perform coding interviews, but they differ from actual coding environments. Instead of forcing job applicants into an unfamiliar ...
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CKAD vs CKA
As part of my professional development this year, I decided to learn Kubernetes and motivate myself with a certification deadline to validate my efforts. Kub...
Grammarly Interrupts
Last year, I purchased Grammarly Premium at a discounted annual rate. I thought Grammarly could help me improve my writing even though I am a native English ...
Hacktoberfest 2018
Today is Thursday, November 1st, 2018 and that means that Hacktoberfest 2018 is in the history books. I’ve participated in Hacktoberfest for the last few yea...
Break between jobs
For most of my colleagues, even a break for a few weeks between jobs is uncommon. Many people go from one position to the next without so much as a couple of...
Java 11 (Java 18.9)
Java has been going through many changes recently. Superficially, the versioning approach has changed to follow a new 6-month release cycle. This new release...
AWS CSA Professional
On Friday, June 22, 2018, I achieved my AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional certification. The 77 question exam took 170 minutes to complete. Ther...
AWS Summit SF 2018
I attended my first ever AWS Summit in San Francisco on Wednesday, April 4th, 2018. An AWS Summit is a free 1-day summit that is loaded with presentations, s...
AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate
Last month I passed the AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate certification exam with a score of 87%. I wanted to share my experiences in preparing f...
Arbitrary Binaries on AWS Lambda
Since the beginning of AWS Lambda, developers could launch a child process to execute any arbitrary binary on Linux. The release of the “go1.x” runtime for A...