Weekly summary #13
Reading Time: 2 minutes Summary of the thirteenth week of my #SeniorDevRevamp project. I passed the AWS Developer Associate exam! Overall summary This week was revolving around actual AWS DEV exam. On Monday I went through all my ANKI flashcards, and that was a blast! However, mostly due to all that preparation I have passed my exam on Tuesday. Hooray! Everything
Monthly summary #3
Reading Time: 4 minutes Summer is behind us. However, I did not stay idle during the last month for sure – a lot has happened, and here’s a monthly summary of everything I have done in August. Monthly summary AWS The main area of interest was still AWS Associate Dev cert – with the official course finished, I have resorted to
How did I pass AWS Developer Associate exam?
Reading Time: 3 minutes AWS Developer Associate finally passed! Preparations took me some time, and that’s why I want to share my way in order to support everyone that will try to do the same. Let’s go. Why AWS Developer Associate? In the area of AWS I have started small – with Cloud Practitioner exam. I did not want
Weekly summary #12
Reading Time: 2 minutes Summary of the twelvth week of my #SeniorDevRevamp project. Just came back from the kind-of holidays, and everything started to go veeeeery faaaast. Overall summary This week was revolving around mock exams for AWS DEV cert. Except for the usual daily portion of ANKI flashcards, that was the only thing that I was doing. I
How did I pass KCNA
Reading Time: 2 minutes I could say the story is like in the western movies. I came, shoot and got what I wanted. Why KCNA? The answer is simple – and the same as with AWS Cloud Practitioner. I have already used Kubernetes before, but obviously as a mere read-only kind of user. I am far away for production-grade
Weekly summary #11
Reading Time: 2 minutes Summary of the eleventh week of my #SeniorDevRevamp project. Second week of kind-of-vacation, but the work goes on anyway. Overall summary Last week I have posted from Les Houches (opposite side of Chamonix in France). Well, every good thing must come to an end, and here I am – back in Poland. However, the heat
Weekly summary #10
Reading Time: 3 minutes Summary of the tenth week of my #SeniorDevRevamp project. Can’t believe how fast it went. Overall summary Last week I have posted a view from my living room in a small village of Argentiere, near Chamonix. It was sunny with a nice weather. Well, today it does not look that great anymore. I have moved
“Mastering API architecture” book review
Reading Time: 2 minutes Some time ago a blog post titled “Being glue” by Tanya Reilly caused some ripples in the IT industry. For some reason I remembered it when reading “Mastering API Architecture” by Gough, Bryant and Auburn. “Glue work” is the work that is something, that senior devs and upper ranks should do all the time. It’s the work, that must be done, but
Weekly summary #5
Reading Time: 2 minutes Summary of the fifth week’s of my #SeniorDevRevamp project. AWS on fire! Overall summary AWS Dev Associate certification exam hit me hard last week. The course on UDEMY is over 30 hours long, and that shows. In the second part of the week I had to pause the course for a couple of days. The