Relational Databases Available in AWS: - SQL Server - Oracle - MySQL Server - PostgreSQL - Aurora (proprietary) - MariaDB Which one is your favourite?
CIA Triad - Confidentiality: only authorized users can access the data - Integrity: to prevent unauthorized modifications of data - Availability: to ensure authorized users can access resources when they need them The Pillars of Information Security
You: "I just coded a real masterpiece! Only I and God two know how it works." Also you, 3 months later: "Now only God knows."
AWS 101 AWS physical infrastructure is located in Regions: separate geographic areas. Each region has 2 o more isolated locations known as Availability Zones. By default, resources aren’t replicated across regions.
"In previous economic eras, businesses created value by moving atoms. Now they create value by moving bits." - @jsnover
AWS Storage Services - S3: general - Glacier: archiving & backup - EBS: block storage (disks) - Storage Gateway: connect on-premise with storage in AWS infrastructure
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies." —C.A.R. Hoare, The 1980 ACM Turing Award Lecture
Amazon DynamoDB - Managed NoSQL database - Single-digit millisecond latency at any scale - Supports document and key/value schemas
I don’t see why developers make six figures, all they need to know is: - Linux - Bash - Go - Python - JavaScript and frameworks - Git - Docker - Kubernetes - Terraform - Distributed Systems - AWS - GCP - Prometheus - Grafana - Being On-call - Security
"Watch what people do, not what they say" In the software development realm: "What people say" -> The comments "What people do" -> THE CODE Code never lies
Although Ethereum and Bitcoin differ in their purpose, they have many elements in common: - Peer-to-peer network - Proof-of-Work for consensus - Digital signatures and hashes - Digital currency
The systems you design follow the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics They'll grow more complex over time Strive for simplicity Otherwise, you're setting up yourself for failure
For software developers, one of the most important things you can do is writing code you can come back to later.
Ethereum is considered “the world computer.” Do you know what that means?
To access AWS, you can use: - the AWS Management Console (web app) - the AWS Command Line Interface (CLI) - the AWS Software Development Kits (SDKs) available for multiple programming languages
3 JavaScript interview questions How to know if the event.preventDefault() method was used in an element? What is async/await and how does it work? How to check if a value is an Array?
7 "Not so common data structures" - Skip lists - Treaps - Fibonacci heaps - Disjoint-sets - Tries - Radix Trie - Patricia Trie
"Programs are meant to be read by humans and only incidentally for computers to execute." - Donald Knuth