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Reading Time: < 1 minute (Update 12-10-2020) Ran the DataFusionQuickstart from Data Fusion Hub. Need to make sure the compute@developer service account have the following roles: BigQuery AdminCloud Data Fusion RunnerDataproc WorkerService Account UserStorage Admin then the datafusion user service account still has “Service Account User” role (this is same as below). The big query and storage roles are needed

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October 26, 2020

Reading Time: < 1 minute (Update 12-16-2023) On AWS a competing technology is cloudformation. The nice thing about TerraForm is it supports multi-cloud (AWS, Azure and GCP, and more). (Original 2020) Doing Prepare for Certification Get Started – AWS : below has some issues, cannot find the image. Note I tried to find correct ami image id too (ami-032930428bf1abbff, via

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October 23, 2020

Reading Time: < 1 minute Sometimes we need to get something done without the distraction of facebook, twitter or for that matter, linkedin (or some other sites you want to stay away). Here is a tip for how to do it on Mac. sudo vi /etc/hosts(note you don’t have to use vi, feel free to use nano or other editor

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September 21, 2020

Reading Time: < 1 minute I normally use google calendar for kiddos’ Zoom meetings. My older daughter who is going to be FGC dragon knows get to Zoom via Google classroom. I can train her on the google calendar too. But now I am thinking I will take Monday off for the full time support of virtual learning (I feel

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August 21, 2020

Reading Time: < 1 minute Kong Kong is a cloud-native, fast, scalable, and distributed Microservice Abstraction Layer (also known as an API Gateway or API Middleware). Made available as an open-source project in 2015, its core values are high performance and extensibility. Actively maintained, Kong is widely used in production at companies ranging from startups to Global 5000 as well as

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July 17, 2020

Reading Time: < 1 minute Was experimenting running scheduled job on PCF. One natural choice is PCF scheduler, which comes with the Pivotal Web Services (PAAS). Googled around and found this example on DZone. The spring batch code is here. There was a small typo in the manifest.yaml, path: build/libs/payment-processing-spring-batch-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar Note the snapshot.jar file name does not match what’s specified

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June 13, 2020

Reading Time: < 1 minute I followed the instruction here https://certbot.eff.org to get a free SSL cert for my website: (pretty cool, huh 🙂 (found it here) To actually do it, I just go to the website: Scroll down a little, select the software and the system my website is running on, and it will generate all the command-lines for

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May 12, 2020

Reading Time: < 1 minute Point Poker: free (accepts donation). A nice pointing tool, click start session, for collaborators: put in name, and join the session. Fun Retro: there are free and non-free choices. The free ones are public. It’s a bit like Trello. For that matter, if someone likes to keep it private, I think Trello is a good

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May 7, 2020

Reading Time: 5 minutes We are at unprecedented times, in terms of the pandemic, and the economy aftermath. The IT software dev job market is not impacted as much as some of the hard hit ones such as. travel and leisure, but nobody is also insulated when there is a typhoon. For example, locally here in St. Louis, Enterprise

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May 4, 2020

Reading Time: 2 minutes (Update 3 10-28-2020) Link to JoelOnSoftware (Update 2  10-27-2020) Java 1) What is the difference between and interface and an abstract class(pre Java 8)? 2) Name a design pattern you have used (or would like to use)? 3) How would you implement the Singleton Design Pattern? 4) Since Java 8, what is the preferred way

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March 6, 2019
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