How I prepared for AZ-204 and what I learnt from the experience in navigating through the various services inside Azure
Motivation
I started exploring Azure at the start of 2020 when my Google Cloud credits expired and I had to explore alternative platform for demonstrating hands-on usecases in TechPrimers. I got impressed initially with the developer experience in accessing the Azure Portal. And also,
The push Microsoft is taking to climb up the Cloud Wars!
In September 2020, I took the “Microsoft Cloud Skills Challenge” by Microsoft as part of their Ignite conference. This earned me a free exam voucher to take up an Azure certification — It lead to the increasing curiosity to explore about Azure services.
Preparation
I have been…
My summary of the services launched in the keynote stage by Andy Jassy, CEO of Amazon Web Services
Last year, I mentioned about not attending the re:Invent 2019 Live from Las Vegas. This year, I still sit at the same view at home with everyone going through the same experience across the globe. I don’t think it’s a time to be proud about, however I feel we are lucky enough to sustain our work life remotely with less hassle even during this pandemic.
The mind boggling number of registered attendees (500,000+) shows the sheer amount of interest and popularity ofAc Amazon Web Services! Period!
AWS’s Innovation Strategies
What does it take to reInvent? - Leadership will to invent and reinvent …
Your getting started guide to kickstart the Podman journey
This post is based on the video I made in TechPrimers. If you like the video format, the link for the video is here
What is Podman? How is it different from Docker?
Podman is a Daemonless Container Engine which can run OCI compatible images. It can run only on Linux machines (for now). If you have either Windows or OSX, you will have to use a Virtual Linux VM in VM Box or Hyperkit.
The major differences between Docker and podman (Pod Manager Tool) are —
- Daemoneless — This feature differentiates itself from Docker, which runs a docker daemon to execute tasks. …
A journey through my choices of using various IDEs as a developer
Turbo C
In 2003, I wrote my first “Hello World” program in C language using the Turbo C IDE in CSC Computer Education center where I gained my first certification on Unix and C++ during my Standard X to XI spring break.
My curation on the Kubernetes Forum Bengaluru organized by CNCF on Feb 17, 2020.
Sponsor booths
Linode
Linode provides Managed Kubernetes Clusters which claims to have predicatable pricing and cloud simplified which is less than existing big Cloud Providers. You can compare Linode server costs with other Cloud Providers in their Estimator — Sounds competitive, Let’s wait and watch!
Sify
The digital arm of sify.com which provides cloud native services across multiple cloud provides and devops toolchain for Enterprise and Cloud Native customers. [Site]
IBM Cloud
Needs no introduction. …
My summary of Amazon AI Conclave’s 2019 edition
What is Amazon AI Conclave?
Amazon AI Conclave is an invite only free event that helps in understanding how to build smart, customer-centric, scalable solutions in the cloud and on the edge using Amazon’s broadest and deepest set of machine learning and AI services.
This years’ AI Conclave was held on Dec 19,20 at ITC Gardenia, Bengaluru, India. The sessions and the complete schedule for the event is listed here. The day 1 events were primarily focused on Business and Entrepreneurs, hence I had registered for the day 2 events. The day was jam packed with different tracks relating to Machine Learning and AI.
Keynotes
My list for learning Kubernetes using various free resources available in different Cloud Platforms
I have been getting my hands dirty with Kubernetes for the past 12 months on the Google Kubernetes Engine. This post summarizes the different options available as free in various Layer 1 and Layer 2 Cloud Providers. Do leverage it for learning Kubernetes and staring your cloud native journey.
Google Cloud Platform
Provides a $300 credit which can be used for a 12 month period from the account creation. There is no restriction on the resources and the number of nodes for creating a cluster.
Bonus: You get Istio installation with the Google Kubernetes Engine cluster creation.
Link: https://cloud.google.com/free/
Microsoft Azure
Provides a $200 credit…
My summary of the plethora of services launched in the keynote stage by Andy Jassy, CEO of Amazon Web Services
When you don’t get to attend a conference, you get to watch it live from your couch! Along with that you get to live blog and do multi-tasking with the luxury of having your own privacy :). Here is the list of key services which were announced by Andy Jassy during the AWS re:Invent 2019 Keynote on December 3.
Amazon S3 Access Points — easily manage access for shared data sets on S3— Blog Post
Amazon Redshift Update — Next-Generation Compute Instances and Managed, Analytics-Optimized Storage — Blog Post
AQUA (Advanced Query Accelerator) — is a new distributed and hardware…
Key blindspots which we miss out while using the AWS Free Tier account
Amazon EC2
The first and most obvious AWS Service which we try out is the Amazon EC2. And it comes with many blindspots; let’s unfold them one by one.
750 Hours
This is the most generous amount which AWS can provide for a compute engine/VM. Amazon EC2 free tier page says “AWS Free Tier includes 750 hours of Linux and Windows t2.micro instances each month for one year. To stay within the Free Tier, use only EC2 Micro instances”. The hidden blindspot is free tier limits on EC2. In this page, AWS clearly mentions how the hourly usage works in the free tier —
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My curation on the AWS Community Day organized by AWS Bengaluru User Group on July 27, 2019.
Why did I decide to go to AWS Community day?
This was the second conference which I attended apart from GIDS which I participated couple of times. I wanted to get a feel of participating in a AWS only conference which is driven by the AWS Community Heros’. I booked the ticket via KonfHub using CodeOps Technologies coupon which came to around ₹1500, which was fair enough.
Sponsor booths
I paid a visit to most of the sponsor booths and had good catch up with developers from some of the tools which I use. Below is my view:
Postman
The booth was open when others were just setting up their stalls. I have…
Ajay Kumar S
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