Tech Tips, Tricks & Trivia

This Week I Learned -  * Microsoft, which sells the rival Azure, used open programming interfaces to hook into its competitors’ products, Google Cloud and Amazon Web Services and provide its cybersecurity services.  * Azure Security Center and Azure Defender are now called Microsoft Defender for Cloud. Defender for Cloud is a tool for security posture management and threat protection. Defender for Cloud protects workloads running in Azure, hybrid, and other cloud platforms including Google Cloud and AWS.  *  Chaos engineering is a methodology that helps developers attain consistent reliability by hardening services against failures in production.  *  Google Cloud Cheat Sheet v2 for developers  has a flashcard version of Google Cloud 4-words-or-less cheat sheet * Oracle Cloud Infrastructure currently offers a realm for commercial regions and two realms for government cloud regions: FedRAMP authorized and IL5 authorized. A realm is a logical c...

This Week I Learned -  * Google Cloud Functions Gen2 supports larger instances (16GB, 4CPU), longer processing times (60mins!) and 90+ event sources! Functions are powered by CloudRun. *  Template for a well-architected assessment report *  OCI for Azure Architects *  OCI for AWS Architects * Being multicloud fluent & understanding the strengths and tradeoffs of different cloud providers can help you make the best choice of services and architectures for new projects. *  Skills are like apps for Alexa . They enable customers to easily interact with your content, devices, and services with their voice, the most natural user interface. *  Terraform Course - From Beginner to Pro * When implementing the actual functionality of the API, the choices are endless. You can implement on Oracle Kubernetes Engine or Helidon or have custom code running and Compute or create modern serverless APIs using Oracle Functions or  work against the Autonomous Database a...

I have been keen to achieve the  AWS Solutions Architect – Professional certification since sometime to improve my understanding & intuition for multi-cloud technologies. I'm glad to have finally achieved it.  The exam covers a wide breadth of topics. I found the following resources very helpful: Stephane Maarek's Ultimate AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional 2022   13 hour video course that includes a 596 slide deck for reference . Among the practice tests, I especially loved this  Exam Readiness: AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional  (4 hours) course from AWS on how to come up with the reasoning for picking the right option for a question. Anti-patterns are highlighted and the limitations of services were well explained to show why certain choices should NOT be used. This added a whole new perspective.  AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional Sample Questions Udemy AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professiona...

This Week I Learned -  * " Inside look at modern web browser " by Googler & drawsplainer, Mariko Kosaka *  curlconverter.com converts curl commands to Python, JavaScript, PHP, R, Go, Rust, Elixir, Java, MATLAB, Ansible URI, Strest, Dart or JSON * Every Tuesday, Netflix publishes four global Top 10 lists for films and TV * If you're using messaging with existing applications, and want to move your messaging to the cloud quickly and easily, we recommend you consider Amazon MQ. It supports industry-standard APIs and protocols so you can switch from any standards-based message broker to Amazon MQ without rewriting the messaging code in your applications. If you are building brand new applications in the cloud, we recommend you consider Amazon SQS and Amazon SNS. Amazon SQS and SNS are lightweight, fully managed message queue and topic services that scale almost infinitely and provide simple, easy-to-use APIs. You can use Amazon SQS and SNS to decouple and scale microse...

This Week I Learned - *  Leaflet is an open-source JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps, weighing just about 39 KB of JS. *  Perspectives on how to estimate on an Agile project  [PDF] * The term Ct value in a RT-PCR report stands for Cycle Threshold, a vital test parameter. It refers to the number of cycles needed in the test, after which the virus in the sample reaches a detectable level. The Ct value is inversely proportional to the amount of viral load in the human body. For instance, lower the value, higher will be the viral level in the sample collected as the virus was detected only after a few cycles, and vice-versa. The value can differ from one kit to another and the viral load does not have much role in patient management. Doctors may advise CT Scan if a patient does not get cured of fever or cough after medicine. A CT scan score of 5 out of 25 is considered normal. If the score is more than that, then the doctor may advise to get hospitalise...