Weekly Summary: 14th-20th December 2020

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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