After years of wondering if I’d ever go through the arduous task of achieving every single AWS certification to find out if Amazon’s Gold Jacket was a real thing, a miracle occurred. Amazon announced that you could now renew certain certifications through their training platform SkillBuilder rather than having to study for and sit through…
As a DevOps engineer who started his career working for companies using AWS and ended up working across the three major cloud providers, it’s been interesting to realize how easily knowledge of one cloud translates to another and how most cloud services are the way they are today based on older technologies which came before…
For the last 5 years, I’ve been working heavily in cloud and have used Terraform as a common tool for managing AWS, GCP and Azure environments. Infrastructure as Code (IaC) has been an extremely helpful methodology for automating resource deployments as well as providing a sort of inventory for all of the various cloud resources…
At the recent AWS Global Summit in NYC, the mention of a course which was a collaboration between AWS and Deeplearning.AI called Generative AI with Large Language Models which seemed like a good way to learn more about the workings of LLMs. I recognized Andrew Ng from his hit AI for Everyone course when I…
I recently attended AWS’s Global Summit in New York City and don’t remember an AWS event with such a clear theme. As with the world in general, Generative AI was the focus everywhere from talks on prompt engineering, many existing vendors advertising their app’s new AI functionality and the keynote itself. Many new products and…
What is this site? Who is Nick? Are these the questions we ask ourselves? What is this site? The current purpose of this website is for Nick to convey his learnings and insights from working as a Software Developer / Cloud Engineer for the last five years. He will attempt to cement his understanding of…
As someone who got into programming through a non-traditional method I’ve always wondered what I would have learned with a traditional computer science degree that I didn’t get exposed to on my path. If I got confused on something or stuck on a bug, I’d assume that it was something I would have learned in…
I’ve reached the final course in my list and one that I’ve been pretty excited for. While I haven’t been the most consistent blogger, the first time I realized the blog could be useful for sticking to projects was with my series of posts going through Kaggle competitions. Before that, I’d started watching through machine…
While Computer Systems Engineering should be a course I’m excited for, this has been a course I’ve been somewhat dreading as it seems to have the least straightforward way of approaching it on MIT OpenCourseWare. Searching for it normally shows a version from 2018, however this only contains lecture slides and very scarce notes from…
Throughout my time coding, it often occurred to me that I had little knowledge about how computers work. I had a base level knowledge of bit calculations and knew compilers and interpreters were used to translate the high level Python code to instructions the computer could understand. This course goes into a lot more details…
The ninth course in this series goes back to physics specifically looking at electricity and magnetism, where the first physics course looked at classical mechanics. A lot of the course feels like the full course follow up to Intro to EECS’s section on circuits and it probably makes the most use of calculus a course…
