Category: tech

GCP Professional Cloud Architect study

I am studying to pass the GCP exam and a very confusing part of all Cloud Providers is the amount of products available and how the names are confusing. So here is a list of GCP services and a small summary of what they are. GCP for AWS experts https://cloud.google.com/docs/compare/aws/ This is a WIP and is not planned to be the ultimate guide of anything, that’s what official documentation is for. Read more...

Back to git

Back to git, again. This time paying more attention and not rushing through the book. The last time I was trying to learn very fast to become a teacher of git, now I only want to master it. This article will probably evolved and will include more and more things for me to remember and if I do it well avoid using duckduckgo for each git command. Why do you need git, You ask? Read more...

Well done WIX

Context: I moved away recently from WIX.com for my hosting needs (this blog), but today WIX impressed me. Today I did some work for Modern Postnatal Recovery, I needed to create: a landing page with a form, a thank you page that allow also download a file a booking system for one-to-one session, synchronised with Google Calendar accept payments for the sessions To do all of this I worked 2 hours and a half. Read more...

AWS CUR format CSV and Parquet

AWS offers the CUR files to report on spending. The quality of the data is way better than the old Detailed Billing Files and it come in different formats. I use the CUR files to generate really good looking Dashboards with AWS QuickSight Today for the first time I checked CUR formatted as Parquet files, and there is a problem for anyone trying to reuse code, while the data seems to be very much the same as in the CSV, the headers are different. Read more...