Tag: cloud
AWS Certified Database – Specialty Certification: Preparation & Resources, 2023
A bit about my personal experience
The AWS Certified Database Beta certification was the last one I took at a test centre, a few weeks before Covid hit Spain very hard and the whole country went into lockdown.
It was an intense experience; the certification was...
A MidSummer’s Book List
Here we are, July 2022, in the middle of a scorching summer, so I'd guess it is a perfect moment to relax near the sea and read a book or two. I've compiled a list of favourite books that I can personally recommend. All...
TDD AWS – the Moto Library
Moto is a library that allows mocking AWS services when using the Python Boto library. It can be used with other languages as stated in the documentation - standalone server mode. I don't have direct experience with that feature, though, as Python is...
AWS Certified Advanced Networking, 2021 Revision and Beyond
I've recertified at the time of writing this post - June 2021 - and wanted to share a bit of the experience and preparation for this one because it has been peculiar, to say the least.
My preparation is very particular because I tend to...
Impressions about the Google Professional Cloud Architect Beta – and other ramblings
The past 15th of March, I sat down at Google's Professional Cloud Architect Beta, so I'd like to share some of my thoughts now that some time has passed.
If you haven't taken any Google's certification before, let me tell you that this test could...
GCP – Introducing GKE Autopilot
It's no secret the huge revolution that Kubernetes has ignited for the Industry since Google introduced it back in 2014, so I'd guess we don't need to go there.
The GCP offering for Kubernetes is GKE, which provides a fully managed environment for orchestrating...
Building Serverless Applications with Google Cloud Run
Cloud Run is the Serverless Container Platform offering by GCP, launched back in 2019. I'm sure you'd get the idea, deploying apps very quickly - packaged in containers -, in a fully managed environment.
After reading this book by Wietse Venema, and going through most...
Verizon’s Media Data Warehouse migration to GCP
You'd probably remember how big of a player was Yahoo in the big tech scene in the late '90s to the 2000s, and I surely still remember how their CEO rejected the buyout offer by Microsoft for $44.6 billion in 2008 - ouch!
Now Yahoo...
Google Certified Associate Cloud Engineer All In One Guide Review
A new book for preparing Google´s Associate Engineer Certified exam has been released. It belongs to the series All-In-One from Mc Graw Hill, which it´s one of my favourites; usually, the books are excellent.
This one is not an exception; I think it covers...
The Learning Journey, Part I
Temet Nosce,
Visitors would read that in awe when entering Apollo's temple in Greece to visit the Delphi´s Oracle. Neo would face the same phrase - over the door - when visiting the Oracle in the Matrix - 1999, Warner Brothers movie. They were completely...