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2021 Career Goal
Title is self explanatory. It is important to plan what you want to learn every year. So he is my list: Release an Open Source Project Obtain first contract positionAcquire AWS Cloud Practitioner Certification Serverless Framework Skills Release a mobile app Data Science Skills Take on more CI/CD Devops work Front End Development skills Below…
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More than a developer
I recently participated in a tech talk series, sponsored by my consultancy Inrhythm and CODEOLIO, April 18, 2019. It was honestly one of the most terrifying things I’ve ever done. My talk was on moving a Spring code base from Java to Kotlin. Naturally the doubts in my mind increased as the days led…
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Deep Work for Developers
Recently I have been tasked with research topics. I usually plan out my task for the day using a technique I call TaskTreeing. You can see me break down this technique in the video below: However the task that I’m doing doesn’t fit the criteria for needing TaskTreeing. There is a task, but I’m just…
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Defining Developer Levels: Mapping where you are
A common occurrence Have you ever seen an advertisement for a role and wondered if you stack up? Does the sentence, “Looking for Senior Java/Spring developer comfortable with API Design” turn make you insecure about your state as a developer? Firstly, it’s pretty common to be worried about where you stand among peers (especially when…
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Building command line tools: Bash Edition
Building a command line tool is one of the many ways to make your software easier to use, learn how here.
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Quick Devops with Docker and Heroku
The Great Melting Pot of Devops We live in a great time of automation when it comes to scaling and deploying services. However with all of this choice, too many cooks are ruining a simple recipe for deploy and scaling. Therefore today we will be going over my favorite way to deploy services using completely…
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How do I practice something I’m good at? For Developers
The Problem I’ve been a Java Backend Engineer for about 7 years and I think I’m pretty good. But with expertise, comes laziness. Building a REST API (using Spring), writing unit test, etc become routine and what was once a sharp blade is now a dull blade. How do you practice? How do you stay…
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