August 30, 2019
After less than a week from achieving the Google Associate Cloud Engineer certification, I took the Google Professional Cloud Architect exam.
Preparing this exam, I found odd the fact that Google provides three case studies to bring to the exam.
I was even more impressed by the number of questions around those cases.
It felt odd since it felt like you could prepare very well those three case studies and be advantaged in the exam.
Overall, I think that this is not the case, since having prepared the cases, will only help you not having to re-read the whole case before answering the questions.
Also, I found myself to read the case name, read the question, read the answers, choose the answer, and then read the case text again, just to be sure.
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August 24, 2019
As for a company certification goal, I decided to certify as a Google Associate Cloud Engineer as well as Google Professional Cloud Architect this month.
The Google Associate Cloud Engineer certification is mainly focused around GCP standard operations, such as managing IAM, osLogin, as well as many other core services such as compute instances, Cloud SQL and many more.
I found the certification to be fairly well balanced, with maybe a little bit a skew toward IAM and security, which I do appreciate due to the importance of these topics.
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March 21, 2019
After the article on the reasons to use vanity URLs in Go and the one about how to implement a lightweight vanity URLs provider, I’d like to share with you how you can leverage AWS Lambda to implement a vanity URLs provider.
The first thing we will need is to import the github.com/aws/aws-lambda-go package.
This package will provide us with the needed functions to easily integrate our Go code with AWS Lambda.
In our main we will just need to start the Lambda with a handler like this:
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April 12, 2018
As many other clouds, Google Cloud Platform provides an Object Storage service, Google Cloud Storage.
As many other Object Storage service, Google Cloud Storage provides an HTTP server to deliver your files quickly.
When I started to use Google Cloud Storage and its HTTP server I have not been entirely pleased by how it works and therefore I wanted to re-implement the HTTP server so that I can manage it completely.
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February 29, 2016
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the biggest public cloud provider and has released a set of tools to help out sysadmins and developers for integrating with their infrastructure.
The three tools we are going to discuss in this article are three of AWS’s most-used and well-known tools:
- botocore: Low-level Python library
- boto3: High level Python library
- awscli: Command-line interface written in Python
All those tools are currently available in Fedora (22+) and EPEL (7).
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July 19, 2015
Today the IT world is moving very quickly from the classic infrastructure with servers, switches, hard disks and so on to virtual infrastructures, where all those things are simple pieces of software faking to be real objects.
This has huge benefits, and this is why so many companies are doing this.
Along with the advantages, this new way of doing IT has it’s criticality that the administrators have to know to prevent possible problems to happen.
A lot of books that speaks about cloud technology forget to start from the basics of cloud and very often skip these concepts.
This book does not, and I greatly appreciated it.
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