Engineer Chapter 2
The cloud startup job
Of course I am not a Software engineer but I’m a Engineer a Production engineer, meaning I have engineering in mass, qualitative, manual, tiered or any kind of production process you can think of. I can proudly say I can understand process of any kind and can explain it in simple terms to anyone. This is my biggest strength.
I was taught Poka-yoke in my engineering and I immediately understand the concept. But I realised over the time the purpose is not to prevent mistakes but to let person working focus on other important tasks that does need more focus work. This is what I always felt about myself or work I do but I realised when I started working on Developer Experience.
Engineer: Chapter 1
Hello, I’m a passionate engineer from Pune, India. I’m posting my experience in career. I’m a engineer I have proven it to myself through out my struggles and learnings in my career. This post is first chapter of my career.
Brief history of my engineering education
I graduated from my bachelor’s program in 2011, 2 year later than I supposed to. It didn’t bother me then and it still doesn’t bother me now. Lot of my friends and colleagues are surprised when learned about this. I never felt to explain this, but perhaps it is important to explain why. Maybe then you can understand me better and why it doesn’t bother me.
Cheap Static Hosting with AWS and Cloudflare
TL;DR Host static content on AWS S3/CloudFront and manage the domain on Cloudflare
I’ve been managing a couple of SPA’s for friends and family members for a few years now. Initially, I used the shared hosting service offered by a variety of Domain/ Hosting providers. It used to work fine, but I always thought why should I pay for shared hosted compute when I only just want to host a static website (without PHP). So I switched to AWS for simple hosting, typical website setup looks like