Hey, what’s up? 👋🏻 After two heavy exams in terms of studying and effort applied to it, I decided to retake the DevOps Engineer Professional exam, as my old one had expired. Most of the topics covered in the exam is in my comfort zone, with resources that I’ve used…
Last week, I took both AWS Machine Learning certifications: the Machine Learning Engineer – Associate & Machine Learning – Specialty. I have to say, it was a long and exhausting journey, I can’t remember the last time I had to study and learn so many new things in such a…
Hello 👋🏻 Two weeks ago I did the AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate exam. I never really looked with attention to this exam before, as my focus were more on Architect and Development, but I finally decided to take a shot, so today I’ll share my experience on it.…
A few months ago I embarked on the journey of automation my house as much as possible, and as everyone else, I faced the main challenge of it: How can I manage all my smart devices from many brands in a single interface? And that’s how I met Home Assistant,…
When discussing API performance, caching often emerges as a key strategy. By storing responses from frequently accessed endpoints that are static or change infrequently, caching reduces server load and speeds up response times, making it a go-to solution for performance optimization. There are many ways to implement caching, from the…
Hey folks, what’s up? Yesterday I did the AWS Certified Developer – Associate exam after my old one expired and with that, it’s officially open my journey to get the AWS golden jacket. This was never a real goal, but as we’ve already come a third of the way, having…
Efficient image management is essential for smooth deployments and stremlined development workflows and rely only on Docker Hub to pull public images can lead to rate limits and slower pulls. Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) offers a robust solution by serving as a cache repository for public Docker images. Leveraging…
Managing kubernetes secrets in large scale is a challenging task for many companies in a world runned by kubernetes, gitops and automation everywhere. With the advent of GitOps, engineers are encouraged to store and manage infrastructure as code (e.g. control planes, kubernetes yaml’s) in a Git repository as single source…
