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Priyank Vaghela — Wed, 09 Nov 2022 00:00:00 GMT

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New Relic - Full Stack Observability Practitioner

Priyank Vaghela — Sat, 09 Jul 2022 00:00:00 GMT

New Relic University offers some great self-paced courses and hands-on labs to increase your proficiency in the New Relic platform.

New Relic is a cloud-based observability platform used to monitor, debug and improve the reliability of your entire stack.

It is one of the industry's first open observability platforms, which is programmable and allows teams to find, visualize, and understand everything to deliver perfect software.

The Full-Stack Observability Practitioner Test aims to examine the New Relic skillsets for people with extensive experience. It will allow us to put the knowledge of full-stack observability in the following areas:

Infrastructure observability
Back-end observability
Front-end observability
Monitoring and alerting

⭐ New Relic Resources:

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⭐ New Relic Pricing

New Relic has a free tier pricing plan

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Continuous Everything - Almost everything in DevOps is Continuous

Priyank Vaghela — Sun, 15 May 2022 00:00:00 GMT

Almost everything in DevOps is Continuous. 🎯

Continuous Everything: From testing the integrity of the code, automatically deploying it, and keeping up with the latest DevOps tools and technologies, everything in DevOps is continuous.

a. Continuous Integration: It is a practice of consistently merging the developer's code changes into the central repository (often the main branch) using pull requests, after which automated builds and tests are run to ensure the integrity of the code.

b. Continuous Testing: It is used to execute automated tests in the DevOps pipeline to create a feedback loop of the issues, rapidly minimize business risks and deployment to the production environment.

c. Continuous Delivery / Deployment: It is used to perform automated testing on new builds to verify the integrity of the production release. It is also used to automate the provisioning and configuration of test and prod environments. Continuous Delivery includes a manual approval, whereas Continuous Deployment has automated deployment when the code testing is passing.

d. Continuous Feedback: Continuous Feedback is vital for any organization as a feedback loop is created to improve the overall product using the analytics metrics from the operation and monitoring stage. Further, that feedback can optimize and improve the product's reliability.

e. Continuous Learning: To commit, gain knowledge and continuously improve DevOps practices while keeping up with the latest industry standards and best practices and implementing them. Continuous learning is essential for continuous improvement in DevOps.

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5 VSCode Tips & Tricks You Should Know!

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Top 5 AWS Services You Should Know!

Priyank Vaghela — Fri, 29 Oct 2021 00:00:00 GMT

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Being AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

Priyank Vaghela — Sun, 05 Sep 2021 00:00:00 GMT

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner helps you prepare for the Solutions Architect – Associate certification, one of the in-demand certification in 2021.

This exam is intended for anyone having basic knowledge of AWS with 6+ months of hands-on experience.

The exam validates the fundamentals understanding of IT services used in Amazon Web Services (AWS).

⭐ Exam Resources

⭐ Exam Details

Passing score: 700 (out of 1000)
Code: CLF-C01
Questions: 65
Time: 90 mins
Cost: USD 100

⭐Question types:

Single selection
Multiple selections

Credential: Credly's badge

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Being AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate

Priyank Vaghela — Sat, 21 Aug 2021 00:00:00 GMT

I am delighted to share that I have cleared the AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate exam.

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The exam validates technical expertise in designing and deploying highly available, scalable and resilient infrastructure on Amazon Web Services (AWS).

The best way to prepare for the exam is to get hands-on experience on platforms like A Cloud Guru that offers several training labs and a sandbox environment to practice, or even using an AWS free-tier account while watching a YouTube video from Andrew Brown @ freeCodeCamp helps gain valuable experience.

⭐ Exam Resources

⭐ Exam Details

Passing score: 720 (out of 1000)
Code: SAA-C02
Questions: 65
Time: 130 mins
Cost: USD 150

⭐Question types:

Single selection
Multiple selections

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Gremlin Certified Chaos Engineering Practitioner (GCCEP)

Priyank Vaghela — Sat, 12 Jun 2021 00:00:00 GMT

While being a Site Reliability Engineer, it is crucial to learn about Chaos engineering that allows experimentation in the production environment to maintain customer trust, build confidence in the system's reliability, resiliency and availability, and to avoid unexpected outages.

⭐ Why does Netflix use chaos engineering? Netflix created Chaos Monkey to test the resilience of its IT infrastructure. It purposely disables any production instance running in Netflix's network to test its resiliency towards the downtime.

Thank you, Gremlin, Kolton Andrus, Matthew Fornaciari, Tammy Bryant Butow, and Andre Newman, for the official certification and workshop on Chaos Engineering.

⭐ Resources

Chaos Engineering: the history, principles, and practice: https://lnkd.in/gdP6bxj
Netflix Tech blog: https://lnkd.in/g_jXvKB
Verify my certification: https://lnkd.in/gfAAiaJ
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Joining Univeris Corp.

Priyank Vaghela — Mon, 26 Apr 2021 00:00:00 GMT

🎉 I'm super excited to announce that I recently joined Univeris Corp. as a Site Reliability Engineer.

I am highly passionate about Site reliability engineering and DevOps engineering, and it's been a wonderful experience working at Univeris, managing infrastructure at a large scale. I'm glad to be a part of this esteemed organization as a part-time engineer.

Univeris is the leader in enterprise retail wealth management for Canada's financial industry based in the City of Toronto, offering a technology platform including real-time processing, built-in compliance, and more.

I want to thank my family, friends, well-wishers and extend my sincere gratitude to everyone who helped me. A huge thanks to everyone at Univeris for ensuring a smooth and organized onboarding process, even in this challenging time.

I'm happy to be a part of a journey that helps organizations manage wealth efficiently.

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Udacity AWS Cloud Architect Nanodegree

Priyank Vaghela — Sun, 18 Apr 2021 00:00:00 GMT

🎉 I'm super excited to announce that I've successfully graduated from Udacity's AWS Cloud Architect Nanodegree.

It was an excellent learning experience to work on several real-world projects. The program consists of 3 projects, 100+ lessons, and 100+ hours of intense learning.

The 3-months degree helped me plan, design, and build highly available and secure cloud infrastructure.

⭐ I have worked on:

Recoverability in AWS: https://lnkd.in/dEvZAdn
Design, Provision, & Monitor AWS Infrastructure: https://lnkd.in/d8kwuRS
Serverless Architecture
IaC using Terraform to provision various AWS resources
Designing a DevSecOps Pipeline
Ensuring CIS standards for cloud security
Cost Optimization Best Practices

⭐ Tools I used:

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
HashiCorp's Terraform
Lucidchart
AWS CloudFormation
AWS Config
AWS Security Hub
AWS Inspector
AWS Guard Duty
AWS Lambda
AWS CLI

⌛ Estimated Time: 3 months (10 hours/week)

Program Home: Udacity AWS Cloud Architect Nanodegree

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Udacity Project - AWS Design for High Availability, Resilience and Reliability Architecture

Priyank Vaghela — Mon, 12 Apr 2021 00:00:00 GMT

The project was a part of the AWS Cloud Architect Nanodegree.

In this project, I have implemented various industry-standards and best practices.

⭐ Features and functionality:

AWS VPC with public-private subnets using CloudFormation.
Highly available and durable Amazon RDS - MySQL database with multi-AZ and multi-region configuration.
Amazon RDS - MySQL read replica for optimizing read transactions, syncing asynchronously with the master instance.
A highly resilient static web hosting solution in Amazon S3 with versioning enabled for accidental recovery.

🔗 Project link for reference: https://lnkd.in/d77HqV4

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AWS Architecture for 50,000 single-region users

Priyank Vaghela — Sun, 11 Apr 2021 00:00:00 GMT

I have created a highly available, scalable and resilient AWS architecture for a social media application with 50,000 single-region users.

It is a part of my 2nd project in Udacity AWS Cloud Architect nanodegree.

⭐ Features and functionality:

2 Availability Zones
VPC with Public and Private Subnets
NAT Gateway for Private Subnets
CloudFront CDN hosted with an S3 bucket
Database: Master in AZ1 + Read replica in AZ2
Web and Application servers - Load-balanced and using auto-scaling

Edit: Here, the Web Server serves a static front-end build, thus keeping it in a public subnet, and the Application servers and Databases are in private subnets for adding a layer of security.

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Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Fundamentals

Priyank Vaghela — Sun, 07 Mar 2021 00:00:00 GMT

This exam covers fundamental knowledge of core data concepts and its implementation using Microsoft Azure Data services.

🎯 Exam Detals:

Exam Name: Microsoft Certified - Azure Data Fundamentals
Code: DP-900
No of questions: 40-60
Passing score: 70% (700/1000)
Duration: 1 hour
Cost: USD 99

💡 Skills Validated:

Cloud Data Services, Azure Data Analyst
Azure Databricks and Data Warehouse
Data Visualization
MariaDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL and Power BI
SQL Server On Azure Virtual Machines

⭐ Resources:

Exam details: https://bit.ly/3nIjhbM
YouTube Training: https://youtu.be/P3qmqUZJ7l0
Microsoft Self-paced Training: https://bit.ly/3nIjhbM

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Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals

Priyank Vaghela — Fri, 05 Mar 2021 00:00:00 GMT

🏅 10x Cloud Certified with Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals.

This exam covers Azure fundamentals, high-level knowledge and working of cloud services within Microsoft Azure.

🎯 Exam Detals:

Code: AZ-900
No of questions: 40-60
Passing score: 70% (700/1000)

💡 Skills Validated:

Cloud concepts & Core Azure services
General security & networking
Identity, governance, compliance, & SLAs

⭐ Resources:

Exam details: https://lnkd.in/dmuQyMU
Self-paced Training: https://lnkd.in/drrgCsE
Free Whizlabs Practice Test: https://lnkd.in/dN9N-a8

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Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Fundamentals

Priyank Vaghela — Wed, 03 Mar 2021 00:00:00 GMT

It is crucial to learn to understand AI and data with services. This exam covers a vast amount of knowledge on AI & its usage with Azure services like Azure Bot Services, Machine Learning & Cognitive Services.

🎯 Exam Detals:

Code: AI-900
Questions: 40-60
Passing score: 70%

💡 Skills Validated:

AI workloads & considerations
Key principles of machine learning
Computer vision & conversational AI workloads

⭐ Resources:

Exam Detals: https://lnkd.in/dgvhUBY
Self-paced Training: https://lnkd.in/dW7MvEU

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Being Alibaba Cloud Associate - Cloud Native Certified

Priyank Vaghela — Tue, 06 Oct 2020 00:00:00 GMT

With this, I'm certified in:

This exam covers cloud-native best practices and methods for Alibaba Cloud.

💡 About the exam:

Exam Fees: $120
Duration: 90 Mins
No of questions: 50
Passing score: 60%
Cert validity: 2 years

Question types:

Single selection - 28 questions (2 score/question)
Multiple selections - 10 questions (2 score/question)
True-or-false - 12 questions (2 score/question)

🔖 Exam Ratio:

Cloud-native Basics - 10%
App Containerization - 10%
Multi-cloud Management with ACK - 10%
Container Registry - 10%
Resource Orchestration Automation - 10%
Resource Auto-scaling - 10%
Build AI & Machine Learning on ACK - 10%
Cloud Native Security - 10%
Serverless Infrastructure - 10%
Resource Observation - 10%

🔖 Resources:

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Google IT Support Professional Certificate

Priyank Vaghela — Tue, 29 Sep 2020 00:00:00 GMT

Being a DevOps engineer, it is crucial to brush-up and grasps foundational skills that we've missed.

This course helps us to me learn troubleshooting, customer service, networking, operating systems, system administration, and security. The lessons contain video lectures, quizzes, and even hands-on labs.

What is IT Support?

Most companies are dependent on technology; technology fails, the system breaks, and dies. When such things happen, we required experts to fix them. IT support is about resolving problems, troubleshooting them immediately for excellent customer experience.

✅ Why should you do it?

Duration: Flexible
About six months to complete. (5 hours/week)
Platform: Coursera
School offering: Google
No previous experience required.
No four-year degree required
Grants and scholarships are available.
Starting a career in IT? Start with this certification.
If you are a Pro, then this course will brush-up your technical fundamentals.

💡 Skills you'll learn & validated:

Computer Networking
Customer Service
IT Infrastructure Services
IT Support
Operating Systems
Security
System Administration
Troubleshooting

💡 Other skills you'll learn

IPv4
Directory Service
Binary Code
Domain Name System (DNS)
Powershell
Network Model
Linux
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)
Linux File Systems
Command-Line Interface

✅ This Professional Certificate contains five courses:

Start your career now in IT: Google IT Support Professional Certificate

This certification has become the single most popular certificate on Coursera due to its content and excellent results that help learners land jobs in the high-paying IT field, which required no college degree.

Disclaimer: This certification is part of Grow with Google, an initiative by Google. The purpose of this initiative is to help and create economic opportunities for all. Learn more about it. The content in this certification is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

🎖️ Digital Badge | Coursera

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Being Alibaba Cloud Associate - Big Data Certified

Priyank Vaghela — Sun, 20 Sep 2020 00:00:00 GMT

I failed first, finally made it now.

With this, I'm certified in:

This exam covers distributed system theory & Alibaba Cloud's core products like MaxCompute, DataWorks, E-MapReduce and ecosystem tools.

💡 Tips about the exam:

This exam is quite difficult, don't underestimate it.
Make sure to learn & grasp the course offered by Alibaba if you're a beginner.

🔖 Exam Details:

Duration: 90 mins
Exam Fees: $120
No. of questions: 60
Passing score: 65%
Certification validity: 2 years

🔖 Exam Ratio:

MaxCompute - 41%
DataWorks - 32%
E-MapReduce - 21%
Data Visualization - 6%

🔖 Exam Resources:

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Being Alibaba Cloud Associate - Cloud Security Certified

Priyank Vaghela — Wed, 29 Jul 2020 00:00:00 GMT

I passed Alibaba Cloud Associate - Cloud Security exam, my second Alibaba certification in a row.

With this, I'm certified in:

Security is an integral part of all successful organizations. This exam covers all the enterprise best practices in securing a production system.

💡 About the exam:

Exam Fees: $120
Duration: 90 mins
No. of questions: 60
Passing score: 65%
Certification validity: 2 years

💡 Tips about the exam:

Learn about networking & OSI model
Learn protocols such as HTTP, FTP, TCP, UDP & ICMP
Learn basic Linux commands & OWASP Top 10
Learn about Alibaba Cloud Monitor, Server Guard, WAF, & Anti-DDoS

🔖 Question ratio:

Networking Cloud Security - 30%
Servers Cloud Security - 30%
Application Cloud Security - 30%
Cloud Computing & OS - 10%

🔖 Question types:

Single selection - 40 questions (2 score/question)
Multiple selections - 20 questions (1 score/question)

🔖 Exam Resources

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Being Alibaba Cloud Associate - Cloud Computing Certified

Priyank Vaghela — Sat, 27 Jun 2020 00:00:00 GMT

I'm super excited to share; I'm officially Alibaba Cloud Certified Associate in Cloud Computing.

The exam covers enterprises' best practices, all the Alibaba Cloud's core products from computing, storage, networking to security and much more.

Question ratio:

ECS 30%
Server Load Balancer 20%
Object Storage Service (OSS) 15%
Relation Database (RDS) 10%
Auto Scaling 10%
Alibaba Cloud Security Service and Cloud Monitor - 10%
General knowledge about Cloud Computing - 5%

Question types:

Single selection - 30 questions (2 score/question)
Multiple selections - 10 questions (2 score/question)
True-or-false questions - 10 questions (2 score/question)

💡 About the exam:

Duration: 90 mins
No. of questions: 50
Passing score: 60%
Exam Fees: $120
Certification validity: 2 years

🔖 Exam Resources:

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Udacity Cloud DevOps Engineer Nanodegree

Priyank Vaghela — Fri, 29 May 2020 00:00:00 GMT

After 5+ Projects, 200+ Lessons, 16h/weekend & around 220+ hours of intense learning with some struggle, I'm thrilled to announce that I've successfully graduated from Udacity's "Cloud DevOps Engineer" Nanodegree!

The four months course helped me design CloudFormation as IAAC to deploy Kubernetes Cluster via Jenkins Pipeline, build & monitor CI/CD pipelines for different deployment strategies and create scalable microservices using K8s.

Projects I did:

Deploy Static Website on AWS
Deploy High Availability Web App using CloudFormation
Jenkins Pipeline on AWS
Operationalize a Machine Learning Microservice API
Using CloudFormation to deploy K8s Cluster via Jenkins - Capstone Project.

💡 Tools and Skills I learned:

AWS EKS
AWS CloudFormation
Docker
Kubernetes
Jenkins
CircleCI
Ansible
Computer Networking

⌛ Estimated Time: 4 months (10 hours/week)

🔖 Prerequisites

You should also have some familiarity with:

Web Development (HTML, CSS)
Object Oriented Programming
Linux Command Line Basics

Program Home: Udacity Cloud DevOps Engineer Nanodegree

🎖️ Certificate of Graduation

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Best Free Cloud Service with Large Storage Capacity!

Priyank Vaghela — Mon, 30 Dec 2019 00:00:00 GMT

Internet usage is growing exponentially day by day, and more files are being uploaded than ever. Here's a list of the best cloud services with free large storage capacities.