A year ago I started blogging consistently at about a weekly pace. The result, 61 unique posts, most recently 4000 monthly views and the opportunity to co-author a book. via GIPHY In this post I wanted to review this year in blogging, and share what I learnt. And I hope this motivates you to start […]
Category: Personal Development
Tuning / regularizing common linear regressions and classifiers in scikitlearn
If you read my article in January about my personal development goals, you might have seen that I’m working to achieve the DP-200 certification. During the learning process for DP-200, I learned that I lacked certain basic knowledge about how to do data engineering / data science in Python. For that reason, I decided to […]
A day in the life of a Cloud Solution Architect in times of COVID-19
A read a blog post last week that explained the day in the life of a software developer at Slack. I really enjoyed reading about somebody else’s work schedule, and decided to share a day in my life. I’m currently a Cloud Solution Architect at Microsoft in Silicon Valley. I work with a number of […]
Lessons learnt co-authoring a book
I wrote a book! Writing a book is something that stood on my bucket list of things I wanted to achieve, and I hadn’t considered actually doing it year. However, I got a great opportunity to work with Packt on the second edition of the Hands-On Kubernetes on Azure book. I am very glad with […]
How I approach personal development
The holidays are a great time of year to reflect and look forward. There have been a couple of great blog posts about how others have approached their reflection and goals for next year. I personally don’t do New Year’s resolutions, but I set half-yearly targets and goals. Goals work better for me than resolutions, […]