If you’re here, you’re probably aware that Amazon Web Services, or AWS, offers a variety of certifications that purport to “validate technical skills and cloud expertise to grow your career and business”, according to AWS. The certifications available are the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner, AWS Certified Developer — Associate, AWS…

Cheat sheets, when used when not taking tests, are awesome. They’re really just things that are really useful to know on a single page at the end of the day, and they’re a useful resource to bookmark and just pull up whenever you need to remember something. At one of…

Interested in becoming a more effective engineer, I fittingly have started reading the very popular The Effective Engineer by Edmond Lau. Five minutes in (don’t worry, I’ll read more of the book than that!), I’m already getting a sense of where Lau will be going, and this article will summarize…

If you’re involved in a business and its financials come up in some way, then you may have heard of the terms Q1, Q2, Q3, Q4, H1, and H2. Now what exactly do they mean? They may seem incredibly obvious once you do know them, but if you don’t know…

In Python, let’s say you have a function that looks something like this: def subtract(a, b): return a - b What this does is take in two parameters, a and b. It then returns the difference of the two parameters, hence the name, substract(). That’s fine and dandy, and honestly…

If you’re here, you probably want to learn about this concept called type hinting in Python. In Python as of Python 3.5, you’re able to utilize type hints in your functions. Let’s first learn by example because that can be the quickest way to get acquainted. Let’s take a function…

In GitHub, there is the concept of watching repositories that you’re interested in. When you watch a repository, you’re essentially signing up for notifications when certain events happen for the repo. Updates, like pull requests, commits, tags, and more, will then be sent to you via your notification set-up. …

In your Amazon Web Services Auto Scaling Group, you have the ability to specify what percentage of EC2 instances that come up are on-demand instances or spot instances. AWS Auto Scaling is smart enough to convert this percentage into a number of instances for each. If the result of this…

You may be interested in seeing which nodes that pods are scheduled with Kubernetes via the kubectl command line tool, but there isn’t a super simple and easily-memorized shortcut for doing so. Of course you can dig into the Deployment and find the relevant information in the .yaml file, but…