Monthly Archive: February, 2018

Google Professional Cloud Architect Certification

I’m logging the resources I am using to learn about Google Cloud and the Architect Certification. Update March 24: Passed the exam, it was quite tricky.  LinuxAcademy’s courses helped but their sample questions are less difficult than the actual exam. Official Resources https://cloud.google.com/docs/overview/ https://cloud.google.com/certification/guides/cloud-architect/#certificate-exam-guide https://cloud.google.com/certification/practice-exam/cloud-architect https://google.qwiklabs.com/quests/23?locale=en https://google.qwiklabs.com/quests/24?locale=en Blog Posts https://medium.com/@grapesfrog/so-youre-going-to-take-the-gcp-cloud-architect-s-certification-1ce8504c029e https://medium.com/@earlg3/google-cloud-architect-exam-study-materials-5ab327b62bc8 https://www.deskscaler.com/how-to-pass-the-google-professional-cloud-architect-exam/ https://github.com/agasthik/GoogleCloudArchitectProfessional

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Earning Technical Respect

Managing the Unmanageable is a book on how to manage software developers.  One concept that I strongly agreed on is the notion of “technical respect”. Technical respect is essentially “proving that you have technical chops”.  I always strongly believed in doing so to solidify your place as a team member or leader but never knew that there was a specific...

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MBAs for Software Guys

This was not written by me, but I agree with the points being made, as I’m a tech person who holds an MBA.  Original source here.  I personally did an MBA at HEC Paris, mostly because I wanted to shift more to the business side of things, become entrepreneurial, expand my network and gain exposure to Europe.  I also took...

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