Weekly Summary: 14th-20th December 2020
List of what I’ve read or watched in the last week with a quick summary on what I’ve learnt. This is largely used as a diary for me, so that I can go back over articles I find interesting. It also helps me memorise and take in what I am reading by writing about it.
What I’ve Read Online
1. Free google training before 2021
Free training for kubernetes, hybrid and multicloud and most important to me training to prepare people for Google Cloud Professional Data Engineer certification with training on Coursera and Qwiklabs
2. Airflow 2.0 Released
Airflow is a very popular tool currently within data engineering, I haven’t got round to playing around with it yet.
Repos I have played with
Repo to help make GOV.UK frontend applications adhering to GDS standards in Flask.
What I’ve Watched
1. Architecting a Modern Financial Institution
Talk around how Nubank architected a solution for their bank handling:
- Millions of customer and transactions per day
- Kafka messaging
- Transaction authorisation
- Datomic real-time double-entry
- Security
- Analytics
Books I’ve read / listened to
- A Promised Land by Barack Obama
What I have cooked
- Chilli con carne by the Hairy Bikers
- Mini toad in the hole by the Hairy hairy bikers
- Honey Mustard Chicken Thighs
- Creamy salmon pasta
- [Full English traybake]((https://realfood.tesco.com/recipes/full-english-traybake.htm)
- Kofte kebab from Salt Fat Acid Heat