Anand Tech Blog

 As an Architects I am always solving problems on everyday basis, little do I get a chance to think about this topic. Let's come to the basics who is the customer for the architect. If I am working on the website, it easy to identify. If I am UX person, I am already there. But who is the customer for an architect. Most times I am working on the internals like a mechanic and no one gets to see what has gone on the inside. Like any projects there are many stakeholders, so for the architect, it is business or the product owner, then comes the technology team and there are other like project sponsor, project manager, etc. Most importantly the product is for someone or to solve some use case. I think that is the most important customer, the final user or the system that is going to be using it. This where the obsession needs to be. I am currently working on a new user case that is going to implement a feature called ZRF, will add more details when the products is live. This feature does...

 I passed the AWS Cloud Practitioner exam 3 weeks, back I should I written a blog about it as soon as it got done. Better late than never. My goal was always to get AWS Solution Architect Associate, but it seemed too ambitious. I was not serious about it for a while, then last year Las Positas College was providing a cloud computing course. It was broken into 4 course, first 2 course was catered towards practitioner and next 2 towards Solution Architect Associate. This Spring, the next 2 courses did not happen for whatever reason. I was kind of stuck now, so I decided to focus on Practitioner. First to prepare, I wanted to get a book that would provide the exact curriculum with reading material. I just cannot focus 100% when the recorded video is on. So I reached out to my professor in Las Positas Debbie Fields and she suggested "AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Study Guide" by Ben Piper and David Clinton, It is a Sybex publisher.  Then I signed up for some practice tests Ude...