The synergy between Terraform, AWS, Databricks and GitHub Actions surpassed my expectations! As a consultant, part of my job is constantly facing new clients that come with new projects and different technology requirements. My last client was big Global Trade Management enterprise looking to revolutionize the supply chain industry. Needless…

How to use AWS Cognito and Google OAuth2 within a hybrid MAUI app for user authentication — I won't be discussing how to set up Cognito and Google since plenty of articles are already discussing this. But, if you are starting from scratch, my favorite reference for this topic is this article on AWS’s knowledge center Set Up Google as a Federated Identity Provider. It’s worth mentioning…

How to create your own lightweight parallel library the easy way — Yes, yes, I know. In .NET there is a Parallel.ForEach that comes out of the box. But let me try to explain. I found myself in situations where I need a smaller piece of code that simply executes an action (Work) over a set of inputs. Parallel.ForEach …

It was the first of January 2020 when I met a friend in Paris, rented a car, and traveled across France for a week. By that time, covid was not yet a thing, and I traveled without restrictions -Do you remember how life was back then?-. It is funny to…

Dataset checks made easy with automation — In my day-to-day job, I must take care of data quality, and I just change the way data is generated and collected. Now I have to make sure data is consistent between the old and the new procedures. Let’s see if we can automate this task using Terraform and BigQuery. …

Speed up testing by automating the creation and deletion of projects with Terraform in Google Cloud. Lately, I have been in a situation where something new has to be tried out, and time is consumed by mundane tasks like creating a test project and then worrying about deleting it or…

It is interesting that tweet you shared. By the start of December, just a few weeks ago. I got two offers. Both were great offers. But, one company that originally was interviewing me for Tech Lead decided to make the offer as a Senior Position. They argued I only had about six years of "experience" and that this tenure was not enough for Lead Positions. I explained that I had just over ten years. Still, they arbitrarily decided that those four years of Jr/Regular were not worth enough to be considered as "real" experience.

Configuring Git’s SSH connection on Mac. — Starting with the obvious place to go: Bitbucket’s Documentation. These instructions are mainly for me. I am putting it here just for future reference since I always forget them. Hope they can be useful to somebody too. Start by opening a terminal, and generating the SSH key. $> ssh-keygen You…

Basics on deploying your application in a regional Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) Cluster using Terraform. TL;DR? You can get the script from my repo. This is part 3 of my series on containers. …