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…
Welcome to the second post in my series of Builder’s Library Notes. Last time, I focused on pieces related to continuous delivery. This time, I’m focusing on papers and talks related to Amazon’s monitoring process. These include papers that deep dive dashboard, health checks, and instrumentation as well as a couple about the challenges of…
Welcome to the beginning of a series of posts meant to serve as my notes on Amazon’s Builder’s Library, a series of white papers and videos detailing some of Amazon’s findings and lessons learned while building distributed systems. This series will cover Builder’s Library’s 23 pieces in its catalog prior to ReInvent 2020. Perhaps my…
A month ago, I completed my goal of attaining all AWS Associate and Professional level certifications. Despite initially viewing myself as more of a JavaScript and Python program, throughout my career, I’ve ended up deeper and deeper in the AWS rabbit hole, slowly gaining certifications until this year when I took the Solutions Architect and…
The next data structure, I’ll be looking at is the tree data structure. Similar to a linked list, this data structure is represented by nodes referencing each other and a whole tree can be traversed after gaining access to its root node. The main difference is in shape of the data structure the tree nodes…
Getting my programming start in Python and JavaScript, I remember wondering what the point of a stack and a queue were. With the power of their current array implementations, it was hard to imagine a list-like structure that could only have elements added or removed from one side. Nevertheless, I’ve found myself solving some coding…
Going back to basic data structures, I’ve spent a decent amount of time on Hacker Rank’s linked list problems this weekend. While I knew what a linked list was since I first learned about it, it’s been good going through problems using them and reminding myself how to manipulate them or get the information you…
Recently, I’ve been going through MIT’s Introduction to Algorithms and its companion book by the same name to revisit CS basics. This article will serve as a summary my notes from the first 4 lectures which are a deep dive into different types of sorting algorithms and how they compare. I’ll be using the Python…
Over the course of my coding journey I’ve jumped in and out of JavaScript frameworks such as Angular, React and Vue. All serve a similar purpose as a framework, giving a method of simplifying and organizing JavaScript code and providing functionality with framework specific methods such as Vue’s “v” and Angular’s “ng” prefixes to methods…
The Facial Keypoints Detection is an image recognition problem with the goal of finding features such as eyes, noses, and mouths on a variety of images. This will be my second attempt at an image recognition problem and this time will be based on finding details in an image as opposed to classifying it into…
For the next of Kaggle’s beginner data sets, I’ll be training models to recognize digits from images of them. This is the first image based problem I’ll be tackling. Because we’re dealing with images, the data here won’t be as human readable as the previous ones, as it would be hard for a person to…
